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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.
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.
Maison & Objet returned to Paris for its first edition of 2023, with a central theme, Take Care. This reflected broad, global drivers including the importance of self-care and care for the environment but also picked up on consumer demand for more meaningful, often craft-based objects.