Pantone Color Inspiration and Direction for Home Furnishings and Interiors for 2008
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on November 2nd at 6:19 pm 
Home Furnishing - Interiors
admin on November 2nd at 6:19 pm Home Furnishing - Interiors
“Whether designing interiors or creating products for the home, satisfying consumers’ or clients’’s marketplace,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “People are looking beyond a simple matching process to colors they can instantly connect with, suit their personal comfort level and excite the imagination. At the same time, there is the practical need to connect to products or settings they already own. As always, it is the introduction of new or renewed themes and colors or unique combinations that will create these essential connections.” more demanding perceived needs and desires in both styling and color is a major challenge in today
PANTONE VIEW home & interiors 2008 is a forecasting tool that provides color and trend inspiration, enabling designers to select the right shades and combinations when creating products for the home. PANTONE VIEW home & interiors 2008 contains swatch cards of each of the 71 forecasted colors – along with visual inspiration and color harmonies for each of the individual palettes – in one convenient binder. CMYK printing equivalents are supplied to easily achieve the forecasted colors in printed materials and packaging, as well as the PANTONE FASHION + HOME color chooser CD for incorporating PANTONE Colors into digital and Web designs.
This year, Pantone is extending its professional color expertise to interior designers and design-savvy consumers. Containing the eight most directional color palettes for 2008, PANTONE VIEW inspiration for interiors 2008 provides an integrated approach to trend information by combining visual inspiration with color palette direction. Housed in a wire-bound binder and packaged with a portable bonus trend guide, PANTONE VIEW inspiration for interiors empowers users with confidence to use color in new and exciting ways.
The eight color palettes for 2008 are ReCollections, Chinoiserie, High Profile, Ethnic Chic, Agrestic, Wellspring, Savories and Nuances.
Pricing and Availability
PANTONE VIEW home & interiors 2008 is currently available on the Pantone Web site, www.pantone.com, for the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of U.S. $275. Corresponding PANTONE Plastics Chips are also available for industrial design and can be purchased with PANTONE VIEW home & interiors 2008 for a total package price of U.S. $400. The PANTONE VIEW home & interiors 2008 forecast kit containing the forecast plus the PANTONE for fashion and home color guide is available for U.S. $440.
PANTONE VIEW inspiration for interiors 2008 is available at www.pantonepaint.com and PANTONE PAINT retailers nationwide for U.S. $75, including the bonus trend guide. The trend guide can also be purchased separately for U.S. $24.95 as a quick and easy reference tool.
