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July 17th, 2019
MILAN DESIGN WEEK
Author: John Saint Denis
COLORS FROM THE MILAN DESIGN SHOW WILL TREND THROUGH 2020
Milan Design Show was rich with colors you will see soon on interiors everywhere. Thousands visited the Salone del Mobile furniture fair, the lighting show, and designer showcases throughout the city.
The Milan Design Show focuses on the bold and innovative with challenging images from designers around the world. There was, for example, an emphasis on sustainable materials and purpose using materials that can also lend themselves to strong coloring. This theme of circularity also favored recycling natural materials.
The classic interior pictured here places tawny and tufted leather chairs around a table under an imposing chandelier that evokes the romantic imagination with its layers of crystal tears surrounding random LED lighting. The fixture’s grace and elegance compliment the champagne walls and delicate molding throughout. Milan Design Week featured paints, fabrics, carpets, pottery, tiles, and more in strikingly new colors. Each has its own palette of complementary shades, and each is markedly different to set trends into 2020.
The classic interior pictured here places tawny and tufted leather chairs around a table under an imposing chandelier that evokes the romantic imagination with its layers of crystal tears surrounding random LED lighting. The fixture’s grace and elegance compliment the champagne walls and delicate molding throughout. Milan Design Week featured paints, fabrics, carpets, pottery, tiles, and more in strikingly new colors. Each has its own palette of complementary shades, and each is markedly different to set trends into 2020.
Loud and bold, Lemon Yellow will catch attention and make a statement. At the home bar above, the yellow behaves itself, speckled into the surface that fronts the bar and highlighting smoky shades in the fixtures above. This bar is part of this large open leisure room where paler champagne makes the space seem even bigger. Woven tiles and upholstery in sand and earthy tones work well with accents in golds, red, and lemon yellow. The room expands under the undulating lighting designed for and installed in the space. Long strands of crystal beads drip the recessed lighting from above diffusing illumination and engaging conversation.
The Milan Design Show also introduced its rich Sky Blue. On its own, it brings drama to a conversation corner of the high-ceilinged room above with its great natural light and elegant recessed ceiling effects. Brilliant and electric, this cobalt color matches nicely with the pumpkin pie chair fabrics amidst all the white. The chandelier dominates an otherwise simple décor with style and architecture in white and brass.
In the bedroom above, you’ll find touches of Pumpkin Red and related shades in terracotta in the linens and in the still life above the bed. The accents pop from the walls, ceiling, and drapery in deep Sky Blue. The gold framing and molding throughout are reminiscent of French Empire with a touch of country living.