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A sombre mood prevailed at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, with the spotlight turned on sustainability, biodiversity and wellness.

Pity the colour beige; this hardworking neutral has become the butt of jokes and the scourge of rented properties. Yet recent re-evaluation has revealed that this is a colour that shouldn’t be underestimated; just don’t call it by its actual name.

Design Directions 2025 Part One: LAND & SOUL | Colour Now: 2024 MEMORY & HELTER-SKELTER | Focus on Lighting

Key colours and applications for the 2024 forecast.

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.