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Color Pulse 2009
October 28, 2007

This year’s Color Pulse 2009 took place this week.  Hosted by the Lawrence Gallery in Portland, Oregon and attended by over 375 interior designers. Color Director Doty Horn of Benjamin Moore gave her fourth annual presentation, and the second annual in Portland.  She wowed the audience on the future of color with her pictures of things to come.

"Benjamin Moore's North American creative team continues to track emerging and cutting edge trends from around the world. For 2009, the overarching theme is Simplicity. Simplicity is intuitive and pure. It is Genius, It is essential in the world that we live in today and in the future.”

Color Pulse 2009 recognizes Simplicity in 4 distinct translations:

Raw - you can see evidence of "Raw" in untreated wood, cinder blocks, and basic fibers.  The grey scale in variations of blue, red and yellow; sand colors, white on white and the layering of white, galvanized metals and warm gold metals. It’s crystals-polished and raw.  Raw reflects the green movement, where things are reused and recycled. It's authentic, honest, pared down

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Urban Silence - It's slowing down, listening to nature, except nature is now the city and we will be bringing more of nature, trees and foliage, into our home and work environment. It's "slow food", unsight dining. Colors will tend to intense greens with a yellow base, mixed with cork, enlivened with copper and finishes will look wet or slick. Horn referred to this Urban Silence as an Amish ethic or Organic.



Simplexity - one pattern that is repetitive, bringing order to chaos. Simplexity is where walls become fluid and fabrics become rigid. You see the colors mentioned above, but blackened; colors with complex undercurrents. Think origami with its multi-step and multi-folds.



Private Identity - our world is coming under influences from outside, think Spanish, Mexican, Latino, Dubai, think cultural fusion and numbers for us. YET, we want to maintain our private identity. Maybe we see that in the tattooing or high end "one offs"

Dan Yeffet signs the Detail lampshade, inspired by the pattern of a fingerprint, his own.

Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery was a proud sponsor for the second year in a row, along with Kravet, Forbo, Pental, The Cronin Company and s”Tile

Thoughts, comments about Colors in 2009, email me at landfair3554@comcast.net

Posted by Mike Landfair on October 28, 2007 | Comments (0)