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Design Directions 2025 Part One: LAND & SOUL | Colour Now: 2024 MEMORY & HELTER-SKELTER | Focus on Lighting

Key colours and applications for the 2024 forecast.

Colour planning tool for 2024/25 with complete palettes, colour flows, seasonal continuity colours, colour evolution and colour references.

An in-depth exploration of regional colour preferences with analysis and palettes for eight global regions. 2024/25 Design Directions GRAIN, MINE, PLAIN & PLANT.

Made from a mineral mined as early as the 7th millennium BC, then employed as an indicator of wealth and status in Renaissance art, Ultramarine was once valued higher than gold.

Here we set out to discover if online colour palette generators are useful tools for colour professionals or simply a shortcut for Instagram content creators.

A three-year pause has proved the ideal chance for reinvention, and Stockholm Furniture Fair has seized that opportunity, with a slew of fresh initiatives and even a streamlined name.

Whether it was sustainability, references to nature or even a little healthy hit of maximalism, a sheer diversity of surface choices was the defining feature of this year’s Surface Design Show.

Maison & Objet returned to Paris for its first edition of 2023, with a central theme, Take Care. This reflected broad, global drivers including the importance of self-care and care for the environment but also picked up on consumer demand for more meaningful, often craft-based objects.