Compiled in collaboration with trend expert Anne Marie Commandeur of Stijlinstituut Amsterdam, a leading fashion, textiles and material agency, the Global Colour Trend Forecast looks at how colour will impact commercial spaces in the forthcoming years. Presenting Reflect alongside three other key themes of Play, Primal and Grow; the forecast is now in its fifth edition, available in hardcopy and digital download from antron.eu.
Through an overarching concept of wellness, Anne Marie Commandeur has explored how our senses are stimulated with colours that capture light and how they manipulate the perception of materials and space within interiors. Inspired by digital stories, video games, sci-fi utopias and the opportunities present in virtual reality; a palette dominated by blue and green sees the influence of light on colour, and vice-versa, through macro-themes include flux, ombré, manipulative and linear.
Antron® carpet fibre and Anne Marie reveal that these colours play with the boundaries of the digital and physical, challenging the viewer’s perception. Anne Marie Commandeur comments:
“Reflect stresses the importance of light. It explores how the innovative lighting systems being designed and developed interact with the spaces they inhabit, including the floor. Textiles are ultimately versatile: they can reflect as well as absorb. Through texture as well as pattern, dynamic light can be accentuated as well as dimmed. In this sensory Reflect mood, it is not just the experience of light and the visual senses that are triggered, but also our aural senses. Carpet plays an active role in the experience of sound. Alongside that, interactive and sensory options for creating immersive environments can be explored with dynamic carpet and flooring.”
The Reflect palette is found within INVISTA Antron® Lumenaä carpet fibre, now featuring 19 new colours driven by the results of the forecast. With more than 200 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.
The Antron® Global Colour Trend Forecast 2019 has become an important tool for commercial carpet manufacturers to develop new products that reflect trends in commercial interiors. It can also help workspace designers to create colour schemes for places that keep up with the changing needs of individuals.