Compiled in collaboration with trend expert Anne Marie Commandeur of Stijlinstituut Amsterdam, a design, fashion, textiles and materials agency, the report looks at key design drivers for commercial interiors in 2019. 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.
“We have an innovative perspective on wellness for 2019,” explains Anne Marie Commandeur. “A proactive attitude offers the tools for people to feel happy and comfortable in the work environment. The workplace is where we pick up on emotionally driven trends that tap in to the need for creativity and interactivity through entertaining and dynamic design, as well a need to retreat, relax and feel closer to nature.”
Diversity too is important, with a need to accommodate and show variety in society’s tastes, mind-sets and circumstances, so Antron and Stijlinstituut Amsterdam contemplated a myriad of emerging design and colour directions before settling on four key themes. Each theme explores the impact of 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.
“We realise there is a tendency for flooring to be seen as a functional surface that should concern itself with durability and easy maintenance,” continues Anne Marie. “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.”
The Antron Global Colour Trend Forecast 2019 is presented in a brochure exploring each theme in detail, now available from INVISTA Antron® Carpet fibre in hardcopy or digital format.