home&design 2019 COLOR FORECAST CALLS FOR CONNECTION, COMFORT, AND JOY
Pantone Announces its 2019 Color of the Year with Trending Palettes by Karen LeBlanc
As a counterpoint to our digitally saturated lives, color trends for 2019 embrace flesh tones that evoke a human touch and softer, mid-tone pastels that soothe. There’s also a playful side to color in 2019 with palettes expressing an exuberance for life as an antidote to stressful times and a counterintuitive dynamic to color pairings where opposites attract to express unique styles.
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antone, the global color
For 2019, Pantone compiled two color
authority, recently picked
palettes promoting a more serene, centered
its Color of the Year 2019 as
existence. Musings conveys a relaxed, healthy
PANTONE 16-1546 Living
lifestyle with delicate, complex colors
Coral, and released its color
such as variegated greens, pale lilacs and
forecast for the coming year accompanied
supporting shades of gray. Cherish creates
by a probe into the human psyche and pop
a refuge for the senses through colors such
culture. Pantone’s Living Coral anchors
as romantic rose, wispy white, opal gray
these emerging color trends as a shade of
and frosted almond that emote comfort and
orange with a golden undertone. “With
contentment. Soothing tone-on-tone pal-
consumers craving human interaction and
ettes are being explored by designers for
social connection, the humanizing and
all interior spaces. The “elemental textures”
vivial Pantone Living Coral hit a respon-
The PANTONEVIEW home + interiors
sive chord,” says Leatrice Eiseman, execu-
2019 is a color road map to the future that
tive director of the Pantone Color Institute.
guides product design and home interiors
Consumers are looking to color to pro-
detailing key color directions into eight
vide connection, comfort, joy and stability
themes with 72 forecasted colors. Here’s
in 2019 as a counter-response to the impo-
what you need to know about emerging
sition of digital technology and social
trending colors in home interiors.
media. According to Laurie Pressman, vice president, Pantone Color Institute,
COLOR FOR COMFORT:
consumers are waging a “TechLash” (a
Color palettes that convey coziness and
backlash against technology) with a grow-
warmth accented with softer shapes and
ing demand for face-to-face social interac-
textures define the latest looks in home
tion. “A third of people say digital life is
interiors. The resurgence of the shag rug
harmful
happiness.
and textural handmade items are essen-
TechLash is looking for direct physical
tial elements of the style. “It’s about the
interaction and touch. The physicality of
artistry, a real appreciation of craft. People
doing something ourselves is vital,” Laurie
value what goes into the making of a prod-
says.
uct,” Laurie adds.
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