Anne Marie of Stijlinstituut Amsterdam, a design, fashion, textiles and materials agency, begins:
“We realise there is a tendency for flooring to be seen as a functional surface that should concern itself with durability and easy maintenance. That said, clearly people care for colour and design, along with a healthy and safe environment and we think that carpet extends its role to offering these benefits. Carpet is the basis of a space. It can be a carrier, the ideal canvas on which furniture can be placed and to which interior decoration added; it can also make a trend statement. There is a future for carpet as a trend product, as long as the industry continues to stay open to new ideas that keep up with the changing needs of individuals.”
And that is exactly what this insightful report achieves through presenting four themes that explore colour, looking towards influences of our approach to wellness and providing people with the tools to feel happy and comfortable in their work environment. The Global Colour Trend Forecast also underlines the importance of diversity in the workplace, with a need to accommodate and show variety in society’s tastes, mind-sets and circumstances. Each theme examines colour and its link to changing mind-sets and socioeconomic shifts.
In Play, bold, vibrant and happy shades prevail as colours to spice up environments and to create pattern by blocking. In contrast, Primal focuses on our need to retreat and relax with a series of subdued, natural and essentialist shades. With Reflect, sensory stimulus is explored with shades that capture light while also suggesting luminescence through use as grids, gradient and mélange effects. The final theme, Grow, focuses on our desire to feel closer to nature with a palette of green tones that tackle the deficit revealed between nature and our man-made environments.
Colours within the Global Colour Trend Forecast can now be found within INVISTA Antron® Lumenaä carpet fibre. With more than 300 different stain-resistant and fade-resistant colour options, Antron® Lumenaä includes metallic shades in mineral, silver and granite through to vibrant flashes of fuscia, oceanside and citron.
Antron® Lumenaä carpet fibre provides carpets with permanent colour through a solution-dyed multi-hollow yarn. With rich and vivid colour, standing up to wear and easy to maintain; Antron® Lumenaä carpet fibre is used in some of the world’s most exclusive carpet designs and performs faultlessly in busy commercial spaces.
Giving carpet manufacturers and interior designers a unique perspective on how colour will impact space in the years ahead, the Antron Global Colour Trend Forecast has become an important tool for commercial carpet and associated industries. The report is presented in a brochure exploring each theme in detail, now available from INVISTA Antron® Carpet fibre in hardcopy or digital format.