International Home Textile Magazine – April’17

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TRENDS
2. Acid Transformation
Inspiration
This direction is called “Acid Transformation”
as the colours are almost as acid like sweet
candy. Gradients and water colour effects are
important ways of decorating products. We
also see aquarel prints, spots and stains. In
this theme we see more synthetic influences,
inspired by the 50-ties and -70-ties with rubber,
silicone, plastic, dichroid and coloured
glass and porcelain. Transparency combined
with opaque, and iridescence are important
in rounded “blob” shapes, but also in facetted
design with hard edges. Colours can overlap
each other to obtain interesting shades. Also
here accidental ways of decorating are important,
aging or shifting of materials. We see
often very airy shapes in this styling direction,
with furniture made out of metal wire, for an
airy effect. Furniture is often upholstered by
airy, padded materials. The candy colours
only add to that special effect. A special, popular
category are the printed flower designs,
for bedding, pillows,sometimes out of scale.
Handwritten text adds a certain casual touch
to prints.
Colours
The pastel colours for this styling direction
are fresh and cheerful, reminiscent of fruits
and candy and much stronger than we have
seen before. Especially pinks are striking. As
colours we see Pastel Lemon, Pastel Lime,
Light Lipstick, Pastel Lilac, Lipstick Pink,
Pastel Pink, Pastel Blues and Pastel Turquoise.
These colours are added as accents to the
previous range, or may be combined with
darker shades for more effect. Colours can
be almost layered, from very light to medium,
strong or dark.
April 2017