Last night I had the opportunity to hear Mary Hoffman, a Color and Design Specialist for Benjamin Moore! I heard a little bit about Benjamin Moore and their process for choosing their color palettes for the year.
This is one of their color palettes for next year. I love the European feel to it! Very clean, chic, and contemporary!
I absolutely love color theory and anything having to do with color. I find it fascinating that they forecast the colors about 2-3 years out. So yep, back in 2007 they forecasted that purple would be big this year...and sure enough, we're seeing purple everywhere now!
To choose the color palettes they come up with a theme (or a few themes). The particular color palette above was based on Ingenuity. They saw that designers would be using color in unconventional palettes. Their other palettes were based off of New Luxury and Genesis. The New Luxury color palette featured rich purples, yellows, oranges, and darker bronze neutrals. Almost Eastern inspired. Their Genesis palette featured a much more monochromatic palette which focused on colors found in nature. Texture was a big factor in this particular color palette to provide some relief from the monochromatic colors.
She talked some about their paint (which I'll share later) but she hid paint chips throughout the store (Pottery Barn) and made it a game of finding them. She was showing some colors that coordinated, and some new color palettes we would start to see next year. Mary mentioned that along with more purple next year we'd start to see navy pop up again. (You heard it here first folks!) Here are some of the paint chips I found in the store:
We've seen a lot of yellow, grey, white color combinations, but pinks will be added to the palette next year too.
Love how this gorgeous green provides a soft feeling to all the dark wood tones.
Here's some more purple! Love it with the neutrals and metallics!
Be sure to check out their site! They've got lots of great resources and inspiration photos too!
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