With a focus on spring/summer and autumn/winter collections, Colour Influences showcases the shades that will shape the professional interior and exterior environments in the future, with Crown Paints’ team of colour specialists curating a series of stunning palettes.
Injecting creativity
As well as Sun-drenched City for spring/summer 2016, Crown Paints’ team of colour specialists have two other stunning palettes, Light and Shade and Shimmer, each featuring exciting options that enable specifiers to inject creativity into their projects.
This year, as a collective, the look is pared down with simple styling, a focus on colour, application and texture and from the viewpoint that ‘less is more’. Spring/summer remains a light collection, but the brights are not as bright as previous years and instead take on a chalkier finish.
An expert view
The Colour Influences panel is made up of colour consultants, colour specialists and designers, who bring their knowledge and creativity together to explore the influences that will inspire colour trends in the year ahead. All have worked together to ensure that Sun-drenched City, Light and Shade and Shimmer all inspire bold ideas in professional interiors.
Crown Paints Colour Specialist, Jemma Saunders, who is a member of the Colour Influences panel, said: “Sun-drenched City is the most vibrant of the three influences for spring/summer with ochres and mustard yellows balanced by softer quieter tones.
“As the name suggests, Sun-drenched City is inspired by a bustling urban city; a warmer climate. The outcome is dry textures, graphic prints, energy and overall a palette of colours which should not work together but somehow do.
“Mustards, pinks and greys are combined to form a complex but balanced collection. Bold linear forms of black are included to add definition and hint at the Memphis design style. Ultimately, Sun-drenched City is a loose, playful trend and brings about a sense of fun.”
Crown Colour Consultant, Neville Knott, a Lecturer, Broadcaster and Head of Interior Design at the Dublin Institute of Technology, is also a member of the Colour Influences team. Speaking about Sun-drenched City, he commented: “This palette combines Memphis design tones such as pastel pink and mustard yellow. It is bold and daring with graphic shades defined in strong colour blocks.
“Warm, earthy shades are contrasted with cool, deep greys and highlighted with pink and green for a sophisticated lively interior scheme.”
Colour choice
The second palette, Light and Shade, features a distinctly architectural edge and is defined by light and dark shades, which form an oppositional palette of rich browns and chalky tones.
Precision and contrast underpin this look, in particular the subtle interplay between light and shadow that occurs as extremely deep and pale colours meet and merge.
Shimmer, the third and final palette, reinterprets how pastels are used by exploring the relationship between light, colour and texture, featuring hard and soft colours mixed with opaque and transparent surfaces. As natural light moves around a room throughout the day, the subtleties of each of these effects comes into play.
The colours are available in many of the professional products within the company’s Crown Trade, Sadolin and Sandtex Trade brands. The Colour Trends programme is part of a series of initiatives from Crown Paints designed to give specifiers access to colour expertise and inspiration for their projects.
A key element is the Crown Paints’ Colour Services Team. Accessed through Crown Paints’ Specification Services team, Colour Services experts are on hand to offer assistance to professional customers of Crown Paints looking to make an impact in public and private environments alike.