We continue reporting from Milan. In this segment we will look at some of the dominant colours and colour combinations from the design week.
Last year’s candy colours are leaving and instead we see a clearer colour palette. Absolutely a bit of 80s or even 90s nostalgia. Sporty. Clear colours, no fading really. In fashion you see navy, orange and white as a summer combination and this will come to interior design too. There are some leftovers from the earthy colours but in general we leave that.
Italian paint brand Kerakoll launched this palette for Milan and it touches a lot of the colour I see. It’s a navy blue, with chocolate brown, a bit or red and of course orange. I think that the clear aqua or minty green will be a key colour, but I didn’t see so much of it in the city.
Bright, sporty, young and absolutely more depth in colours than previous.
And this is how the colours could be interpreted. Here at Louis Vuitton. Navy blue, orange, a bit of beige and then aqua.
Orange
Zanotta. Here you see the clear colours. No fading. White to make it extra crispy.
At Boon Room. These ceramic sculptures (?) or should we call it plates? Orange, navy, aqua and white.
Orange, offwhite and aqua at CC Tapis by Kwangho Lee.
Dedar made this wonderful textiles by Anni Albers. Amazing craft, design and technology. And the colours gets crispy with white and black.
Of course orange at the Hermes installation. This is inspirered by church windows.
More bright orange at Zanotta.
Objects of common interest at Alcova. The orange can be pretty “plastic”.
Orange that almost turns to red at Nilufar Gallery.
Bright orange at Alcova.
More from Boon Room and here we see a much more softer orange, and that was seen elsewhere.
A sofa at Nilufar Gallery. Of course this orange can be a bit terracotta but I think we will move into a stronger and more red hue.
Blue
Continuing this 90s and sporty colour scheme. Navy blue is big. Or should be call it electric blue or petrol blue? It is a rich blue. Dark. Here Lara Bohinc for Uniqka at Alcova.
So, I have talked a bit about these sporty colour combinations that has a 90s flair. Here too you see navy, organge, white and aqua. A bit more folklore here. By Pierre Marie for Yves Salomon.
Dimore Studio at Hosoo.
Esto at Alcova.
Proper navy blue by Jil Sanders for Thonet. One of my personal favourites from the design week. Sanders have worked a lot with all the details on the Bauhaus chair. How high should the filling in the seat be, etc, etc. Here a blue that is a piano lacquer.
Almost the same concept. A classic chair at Cassina and now in navy.
Do we see a trend where old classics are made in navy? Here Vico Magistretti for Kettal.
Definatetely a bit more petrol. At Sancal
At Foscarini.
The new sofa in the Stockholm collection by IKEA.
These two tables by Cassina. Yes, we see a huge trend with coloured tables and we will explore more on that in a later post.
Exporim
Ketall again.
At Tecta
Pink
Normally I don’t want to use press pictures here, but I missed this installation by Moooi. But it captures something. I like the pink here with the dirty, pastel grey.
And this pink with dirty, smudge colours is something happening. This year I talk about “lingerie colours”, and this is kind of a continuation of this. Here a sofa by Meritalia.
Atelier Oi at Rossana Orlandi.
Objects of Common Interest at Alcova.
Nilufar Depot.
At Moroso.
Design apartment Droulers.
Patricia Urquiola for CC Tapis.
Brera Design apartment.
Abet Laminati
Bolon
Brown
Brown is in. We have talked about how we are leaving the earthy colours so this brown is much more chocolate. Even a but caramell or fudge. You have already seen this brown with the pink above… Here at Rossana Orlandi.
Lara Bohinc again for Uniqka. It is kind of difficult to differ the natural leather from this coloured version I am talking about. And yes, there is a lot of leather. And we will talk more about that in the next segment. But here – cognac coloured.
Brown at Norwegian Hydro.
Brown tiles at Elle Deco.
Brown tiles at the Muuto apartment.
Brown at Poltrona Frau.
Brown at Hermes.
Caramell at Meritalia
Brown at Kettal.
Brown at Magis.
Kettal again.
And finally two pictures from Tacchini. As you can see it it difficult to differ this from leather or dark wood. We see that too, but here I wanted to emphasize the hues. Not the materials.
Green
Last colour and perhaps the least mature or early of the colour trends. I say this because I don’t see a clear line. It’s like we haven’t decided what kind of greens we like. We have it all. It is natural and organic, but also strong as matching that 90s aesthetics with orange and navy.
This is my second press picture. I did not get to see the Gucci exhibition because of one million people standing in line to get in. But the Gucci exhibition was much talked about and they used a green that fits the trend.
Designer of the year (according to Elle Deco) is Faye Toogood. Here a new tableware from Noritake.
Here Zanotta again. It works well with this 90s trend. The lighter aqua matches nicely.
At Zilio.
At Sancal.
At Bolon.
At Artemest
But as mentioned, we see a huge variation of this green. The first ones here have a lot of blue. Kind of an emerald green. But there are absolutely other versions of green. Here a table at Cassina.
Not exactly emerald. A tint of yellow in it. By colour queen Tekla for Johanson Design.
At the fair.
And the same chair as in the blue segment. Here a military green version of the Thonet chair by Jil Sanders.
nice, thanks!