Home Beautiful's Style File This Month - Is Swimmingly Turquoise...

Loving this month's [April 2010 issue] Australian Home Beautiful's Style File - featuring Pantone's colour of the year 'Turquoise 15-5519'. I adore the 'Chinoiserie' feeling that is created using this hue here through multiple pattern, scale & shade use... and am in particular love with the silk wool floor rug 'Rmza' in Emerald [approx. $3,000.00 from 1.7, x 2.4m] from Mokum. Can I have it now!

Image from [Australian] Home Beautiful April 2010 issue. Issue now on sale at your local newsagent or supermarket.

The Power Of Turquoise...

Various shades of Turquoise & Teal, with hues of White & Natural Straw make for a contemporary, fun space.

Wallcoverings from 'York' - If you have enough pattern in a room, add texture and shimmer with glass bead encrusted or crystal embedded papers like those from York

Paint the room a bold, fresh yet calming colour!

Rooms to inspire - using the 'colour of the year' as confirmed by 'colour authority body' Pantone, here are some great ways to bring Turquoise (15-5519) through your interiors. Turquoise is great hue to do this as it's colour meaning is about - Love, healing, generosity, emotion, feeling , the unconscious , intuition, individual responsibility .creativity , communication, self reliance , independence. This color has more to do with feeling and creative expression than with rational thought. A mix of blue and green, turquoise has a sweet feminine feel while the darker teal shades add lively sophistication.... Enjoy!

Images from Elle Decor

Final Installment: Part III - Trends in Decor/ Design & Furniture for 2010

The final installment for the Update... Trends in Decor/ Design & Furniture for 2010, here is Part III - 5.Turquoise Tones. As announced last week, from the global colour headquarters - Pantone, here we see a mixture of how the hue - Turquoise [15-5519] - will be used through areas such as tableware - crockery, fabric, & furniture. Keep your eye out for more of this hue to ripple through these, and many other areas in design & decor.

Trend: Turquoise Tones
[Above Image 1] Pantone, the global color authority, just released its color for 2010: 15-5519 Turquoise, which conjures up images of tropical waters in shades of bluish-green. This hue has been popping up at all the trade shows and will continue to shine in 2010.

Trend: Turquoise Tones

[Above Image 3] At the New York Tabletop market, Vera Wang introduced a cheery, modern line of casual bone china. Ikat was the standout pattern, with its asymmetrical dabs of green, blue and lilac on a classic white body. Wedgwood.com.

Trend: Turquoise Tones

[Above Image 3] Larry Laslo’s newest collection of fabrics for Robert Allen includes this fun and funky pattern in goldenrod and teal—thus combining 2009’s strongest color and 2010’s most promising hue.

Trend: Turquoise Tones
[Above Image 4] Paola Navone designed this cozy seat with removable upholstery fabric that covers its body of polyurethane foam and padding. The showcase color just happened to be the color of the year.
Poliform.com.

Images & Text / Article from Elle Decor [U.S magazine] January 2010 issue

Just Announced... Colour of the Year 2010

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Yep it's official just in from the colour headquarters of the world... Pantone, I have just received the newsletter that announces the 'official' colour of the year for 2010 is - 'Turquoise 15-5519'.

Here's a little blurb from the Pantone website for their take on what this colour will mean to us in our physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, cultural & economic - environments:

Pantone is pleased to announce PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, an inviting, luminous hue, as the Color of the Year for 2010. Combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise inspires thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a comforting escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of well being.
In many cultures, Turquoise is believed to be a protective talisman, a color of deep compassion and healing, and a color of faith and truth, inspired by water and sky. Through years of color word-association studies, we also find that to many people, Turquoise represents an escape, taking them to a tropical paradise that is pleasant and inviting – even if it is only a fantasy.
Whether envisioned as a tranquil ocean surrounding a tropical island or a protective stone warding off evil spirits, Turquoise is a color that most people respond to positively. It is universally flattering, has appeal for men and women, and translates easily to fashion and interiors. With both warm and cool undertones, Turquoise pairs nicely with any other color in the spectrum. Turquoise adds a splash of excitement to neutrals and browns, complements reds and pinks, creates a classic maritime look with deep blues, livens up all other greens, and is especially trend-setting with yellow-greens.

What do you think? Is this a hue that you'd like to see more of in your interiors, exteriors, fashion and general surroundings?

Images from Pantone