Colour

Ten interiors with pastel colours that freshen up the home for spring

April 10, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Pale yellow dining room with wooden floors

For this lookbook, we’ve rounded up ten home interiors decorated in pastel tints that show how ice-cream colours can give spaces a fresh, calming look. The selection from our archive, which includes bathrooms to bedrooms and kitchens, shows how pastels – made by adding white to pure colours to make them more luminous and less

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Studio Anton Hendrik Denys designs Belgian office informed by 1960s colour schemes

March 4, 2021 James Parkes 0

Studio Anton Hendrik Denys and Steen Architecten have transformed an industrial office building in Belgium by cladding it in corrugated metal and adding colourful graphic interiors. Studio Anton Hendrik Denys, in collaboration with Steen Architecten, stripped the existing office building in Heverlee back to its core and used the company’s corporate identity to create a design

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Beyond Space designs colourful office around reconfigurable grid system

March 1, 2021 James Parkes 0

Beyond Space has created a flexible office interior for a security company in Amsterdam using a colourful grid system that allows the user to change the layout when needed. Informed by an endless repeating grid system, the studio used a structure made from beams and columns to knit together two office floors. The rigid grid

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Brave Ground named Colour of the Year for 2021

September 8, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Brave Ground is Dulux's colour of the year 2021

Paint brand Dulux has unveiled a “reassuring” earthy beige hue called Brave Ground as its colour of the year for 2021. Brave Ground was selected as an “elemental” hue that reflects “the strength we can draw from nature, our growing desire to align more with the planet and looking towards the future” – particularly in

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Pantone unveils over 300 new trend-based colours

March 5, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

A hot pink called Viva Magenta and an icy blue named Frozen Fjord are among the 315 new hues that American colour company Pantone has added to its roster of shades. The 315 colours have been chosen by Pantone to reflect present-day and forecasted trends, and have been taken from all bands of the spectrum.

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Adam Nathaniel Furman brightens up London maternity centre with “flowerburst” mosaic

January 13, 2020 Alyn Griffiths 0

Adam Nathaniel Furman Chelsea & Westminster hospital

London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has applied his signature colourful aesthetic to a tiled entrance and reception area for the maternity centre at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. The London hospital received a donation from the Reuben Foundation to create an artwork for its new maternity centre and approached Furman to enhance its reception and

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Colourful public spaces are part of Pazdigrad Primary School in Croatia

November 22, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Pazdigrad Primary School in Split, Croatia has been designed by architects X3M to include public squares, one of which is painted bright yellow The school is located on a sloping site, so X3M built it as a series of stacked concrete platforms. Pazdigrad Primary School is on periphery of the city and surrounded by housing

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“Could all things ‘green’ be the glue that sticks us back together?”

October 1, 2019 Michelle Ogundehin 0

Tranquil Dawn Dulux Colour of the Year 2020

Dulux chose Tranquil Dawn as its colour of the year for 2020, but something bolder would have better represented the year ahead, says Michelle Ogundehin. Dulux’s colour of the year for 2020 – a hazy, muted green that recalls a sort of pale Chinese celadon mixed with sage and a smudge of grey – is intended to

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Paint the town red with our colourful Pinterest boards

September 15, 2019 Semi Han 0

In light of the cool-green shade Dulux has named its colour of the year 2020, we’re showing our true colours with this week’s Pinterest boards, featuring candy-coloured pastel interiors, colour-block walls and designs to tickle you millennial pink. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Main image shows how the grass could be greener with Dulux’s Colour

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Tranquil Dawn named Colour of the Year for 2020

September 10, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Dulux Colour of the Year 2020: Tranquil Dawn

Paint brand Dulux has selected a cool-tone shade of green as it’s Colour of the Year for 2020, which is meant to offer an antidote to an “increasingly disconnected” modern society. Dulux says that Tranquil Dawn “embodies the nation’s mood on the approach of a new decade”. “It reflects a growing desire to understand what

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