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An in-depth exploration of regional colour preferences with analysis and palettes for eight global regions. 2024/25 Design Directions GRAIN, MINE, PLAIN & PLANT.

Colour planning tool for 2024/25 with complete palettes, colour flows, seasonal continuity colours, colour evolution and colour references.

Continuing our series focusing on creatives with a special interest in colour, we speak to Ruben de la Rive Box and Golnar Roshan of Amsterdam- based design studio Rive Roshan about the importance of experimentation and imagination.

As non-renewable resources become ever more depleted, the irrevocable, environmental and ethical damage synthetic dyes are causing is leading designers to rethink the future of dyeing by recalibrating their relationship with nature.

As our world becomes increasingly digitised and complex, architects, interior designers and artisans are retreating from this overload, adopting a stone-age simplicity by turning their attention to the ultimate analogue material, stone.

Nothing says glamour with a touch of drama like an animal print. From Hollywood to the high street, this is why leopard, tiger and zebra prints remain enduring favourites everywhere. Now these prints are infusing interiors with their big statement style.

Recently, there’s been a definite move to the dark side, as a distinctly Gothic mood descends like a dense, bat-filled mist.

As spa-like themes lose their novelty, bathrooms look to the bold, colourful and optimistic energy of the 70s, or embrace an inner goddess aesthetic for a bit of unapologetic, cinematic glamour.

Emerging from an enforced two-year hiatus, the return of Heimtexil was marked by an overwhelming sense of optimism for the future of home and contract textiles.