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Interior design

Be Bold

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Posted by Niki Fulton at 09:44 AM in Interior design

If you look at the new products emerging from leading furniture manufacturers such as Driade, Cappellini, Moroso, Artifort, Kartell they are all showing lots of pure white (which will be great used in interiors with a spike of strong colour) and lots of orange, fushia, lime, grass green, full red, yellow. It will be exciting to see the stands at this years Milan Furniture Fair in April.

Meanwhile you can see great representation at www.designshopuk.com. If you are enjoying the current trend for clean bright colours you will love this site: www.colourlovers.com.

Definitely an appetite around for fresh & bold. I call this "fauvism meets Tokyo" or "Wild Beast crashes into Tokyo". Whatever you call it, they are definitely optimistic forward thinking palettes which will be fun to experiment with. They can increase the heart beat. Just open a new box of soft Inscribe pastels and experience the instant gratification.

We've been trying out new colour groups which are fun on their own or reined in or anchored down with our more familiar neutral, earthy hues.

We like the earthy flat matt chalkyness of drawing pastels which prepare the mind to expect earthy hues but then bang, bold colours emerge and the senses are woken up. It is more normal to view bolds in shiney glossy finishes but I see a future in flat bold. Try a bold colour or a spike of colour on a feature wall but using a top quality full matt highly pigmented paint and you may be suprised.

If you are not brave enough to paint a room, you could just opt for a new Missoni cushion!

Leading Danish textile company kvadrat have the perfect selection of "lipstick" colours in their divina 3 collection. You can also catch news of this years 2009 Wallpaper Awards on the kvadrat site. "Clouds" by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec won in the category "Best use of Textiles" with their huge sculptural textile "thing"! See: www.kvadrat.dk.

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