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136 HTE<br />
TRENDS<br />
effects, enlarged pixels, facets and geometric ideas in bold<br />
colour combinations prevail and also ideas from Pop Art<br />
and Optical Art show up. Coloured glass products are popular,<br />
often in overlapping colours. Mirrors are treated with<br />
paint or oxidized to evoke an interesting effect. Grading<br />
of colour is still an important feature. Adaptable colour effects<br />
with LED’s give a contemporary feel. We see iridescence<br />
and products that are executed in different colours.<br />
Shapes are rounded and friendly. Knitted materials offer a<br />
lot of new possibilities and are applied in stools and also in<br />
chairs. Furniture should be versatile, and should be easy to<br />
adapt to different situations and changes in lifestyles. We<br />
see speckled and marbled surfaces and accidental designs.<br />
Colours<br />
The colours in this theme consist mainly of bright cheerful<br />
colours, often to be combined with black and white as an<br />
accent, reminiscent of the Pop Art and Op-art period and the<br />
Memphis Movement. As colours we see: Fresh Orange Red,<br />
Bright Pink, Orange, Sunny Yellow, Bright Lime, Cobalt Blue,<br />
Grass Green and Bright Purple. They may also be applied for<br />
outdoor, summery products or as an accent in combination<br />
with the other colour cards. Colour is often applied tone-intone.<br />
Gradients of colour remain important.<br />
Vintage Green<br />
There are two main ingredients that determine this style direction:<br />
Vintage ideas, products that are old and affected,<br />
aged and worn, with an industrial history, are combined<br />
with products that are inspired by Nature. Mainly in different<br />
shades of green, but also the colours of oxidized steel and<br />
affected wood. Botanical ideas from natural history books<br />
with flora and fauna remain important, but they take on a<br />
more historical character. Ideas from colonial times with<br />
palm trees, old engravings, or landscapes are shown as<br />
complete murals, made possible because of digital printing.<br />
Already for quite some time, we see how jungle prints<br />
with large foliage and exotic birds like parrots and parakeets<br />
remain popular. Now they become even more exotic, with<br />
pictures of monkey’s, tigers, lions and other exotic animals,<br />
and show up in different products, not only on textiles, but<br />
also on plates for instance. Also insects, ferns and more<br />
abstract ideas like the weather or oxidation are popular subjects.<br />
There is also interest in Chinoiserie.<br />
<strong>January</strong> <strong>2019</strong>