✓ Gain insights about the latest trends in indoor+outdoor design from the top design events in Europe.
✓ Discover new colors, materials, finishes, and design moods to inspire your designs, projects, new collections.
✓ Benefit from expert insights, filtering and forecast to inform your design decisions.
✓ Keep your design work and spaces cutting-edge and inviting by mindfully integrating up-to-date trends.
✓ Access innovative ideas and key innovations in the design, furniture and decor for indoor+outdoor environments.
✓ Understand how to integrate sustainability into your design process.
✓ Monitor upcoming themes and drivers to future-proof your design strategies.
✓ Align your work more closely with customer needs and preferences to foster sustainable business growth.
✓ Access exclusive, non-sponsored, independent trend resources that are ready to use, providing daily inspiration for your work while saving you time and energy in research.
✓ Discover how to thoughtfully incorporate trends through detailed how-to guides and curated case studies.
Color Themes
developed by Elisabetta Rizzato as unique color stories that reflect the most relevant living trends
Colors
with unique naming and precise code references to apply them in the interiors, print and web design
Case Studies
illustrating the color themes applied to contemporary and inspiring spaces&products
Color Focus
exploring etymology, cultural associations, past and present trends, and organic solutions
Circular Colors
showcasing many innovative ways to create hues by replacing traditional chemical-based options
Moodboards
to help you understanding and apply the future color trends
statistics, references, and projects to inspire and guide your understanding of the future of color design.
you will get a detailed vision of what's relevant in the field of color design, which are the emerging colour trends to be inspired by, plus an uncountable series of inspirations, themes, prompts, for your projects and designs.
As with all our Trendbooks, the contents of "Color Trends 2025/26" are the result of an extensive year-long research effort conducted both online and onsite at major design events across Europe. It also features a unique work of translating into original color stories the most relevant living trends, providing both a forecast and a strong visual inspiration to brands and professionals.
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The colors we choose impact how we see and experience our surroundings, influencing our mood, behavior and quality of daily lives.
Conversely, our perception of colors is influenced by our cultural background, global trends, and changing fashion—this is why color trends are so important.
This Trendbook provides a detailed overview of forthcoming color trends, with a special focus on the interiors and design fields.
A comprehensive collection of +200 A4 pages, available for easy reference anytime as a downloadable PDF, set to accompany you for the next 16 months.
the eight key color stories are fully developed each one with moodboard, color references and an extensive part dedicated to the application of color in spaces and design.
Our Color Themes offer new ways for brands and professionals to integrate trends into design through color.
each color palette presented in this ebook includes a carefully curated selection of hues that reflect the trends forecasted for 2025/26 season, with precise nomenclature and indication with color codes.
By utilizing standardized color codes ( hex, RGB, LAB ) we make sure that colors are accessible and interpretable by everyone, including individuals with color blindness, and that can be correctly translated into different color standards everywhere in the world.
at the heart of our Trendbook lies a robust and meticulous methodology for predicting color trends, ensuring that our insights are both reliable and forward-thinking.
To capture the full spectrum of emerging trends, our research methods incorporate a diverse array of data sources both on site and online. Starting from a wider research on macro trends that include consumer behavior, fashion plus lifestyle trends, technological advancements, and environmental factors, we filter it with accurate on site market research in the field of design by visiting the key design events across Europe.
we developed each palette with a set of dominant, accent and background colors. Plus, we display each palette on a color wheel to give you a quick, intuitive tool for understanding and applying color combinations.
Through practical applications, we demonstrate how each palette can be fully customized using the 60-30-10 color rule and your creativity, enabling the creation of unique, innovative interior spaces.
between each Color theme, enjoy a section dedicated to a specific nuance. Colors are powerful communicators of mood and emotion, each hue capable of evoking a distinct set of feelings and sensory responses.
Considering cultural references and the diverse meanings associated with colors allows us to adopt a more inclusive approach to color design, accommodating various backgrounds and perspectives.
colors are a fundamental element of design, making circularity in color choices an essential aspect of embracing sustainability.
In 2025 and far beyond, the concept of circular colors is gaining prominence, and we’ve dedicated a special section of this Trendbook by exploring them into seven different key categories.
The "Color Trends 2025/26" Trendbook is a valuable resource created for designers, architects, and interior design professionals. It serves as an essential guide for those in the furniture, décor, and design industries—including buyers and marketers—helping them create future collections and visual strategies. Additionally, it offers trend researchers a focused perspective on interiors and design.
The nuances we recommend go beyond digital representation—they are rigorously tested in physical formats, using swatches and color cards. With our expertise, we transform data, preferences, and needs into concrete, actionable concepts, turning abstract trends into precise, tangible realities.
Our Trendbooks have been purchased worldwide, with customers from Europe and the Americas using them to stay updated on the latest industry trends. Additionally, clients from the Middle East, Far East, Australia, and Africa turn to our Trendbooks to gain insights into emerging trends from a Western perspective.
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