{"id":1684,"date":"2024-01-08T17:53:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golsondesigns.decoratingden.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2024-01-08T17:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:53:36","slug":"a-peachy-start-to-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golsondesigns.decoratingden.com\/a-peachy-start-to-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peachy Start to the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reading time 4 minutes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIn seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance. A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.\u201d That\u2019s from Leatrice Eiseman, executive director, Pantone Color Institute\u2122<\/p>\n Peach Fuzz, claims the Pantone<\/a> website, \u201ccaptures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It\u2019s a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul.\u201d<\/p>\n While Pantone may be THE Color of the Year, there are others.<\/p>\n Our partner Benjamin Moore has proclaimed Blue Nova as its 2024 Color of the Year, described as \u201cviolet and blue coming together in an elevated, sumptuous hue.\u201d<\/p>\n We found an article at ArchitecturalDigest.com titled Here\u2019s How Color of the Year Mania Came to Be<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the 1957 romantic comedy Funny Face, Kay Thompson \u2014 playing a larger-than-life fashion editor inspired by Diana Vreeland\u2013leads a musical number in which she marshals her staff (and presumably the world at large) to \u201cthink pink!<\/em>\u201d Bolts of Pepto Bismol\u2013colored fabric unfurl across her carpeted office floor as she tells her junior editors to \u201cbury the beige<\/em>.\u201d As it turns out, Funny Face was right on schedule. In real life, pink was all the rage, dousing everything from a 1957 Ford Thunderbird to a 1957 RCA Whirlpool electric range. The parallel underscored a uniquely 20th-century phenomenon\u2014that colors themselves could have moments.\u201d<\/p>\n Isn\u2019t that funny since this is still the season of Barbie pink?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More from that article: \u201cIt can be tempting to think of color trends mere whim, or\u2014when a trend really takes off\u2014as a lucky stroke of creative genius. But as that other esteemed fictional fashion editor, Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada<\/em>, famously schooled her hapless assistant Andy, the colors of consumer products are never an accident. They are deliberately chosen, work their way through retail networks high and low, and end up tinting the wardrobes of even those who claim to be indifferent to fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Pantone Color System has been the standard for color matching since 1963. In 1999, the Pantone Color Institute created the Pantone Color of the Year educational program to engage the design community and color enthusiasts around the world in a conversation around color. The Pantone website states: \u201cWe wanted to draw attention to the relationship between culture and color. We wanted to highlight to our audience how what is taking place in our global culture is expressed and reflected through the language of color. This thought process rings just as true today as it did back in 1999. That\u2019s one of the major reasons why, each year, so many around the world look forward to our Pantone Color of the Year announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n Pantone may not have been the first, though. Pratt & Lambert, a paint manufacturer geared to the interior design market, claims their program dates to 1996.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n First<\/strong>: It does stimulate some fun conversation and debate, even if it\u2019s only about: How in the world do they come up with those names?<\/p>\n Second<\/strong>: It fosters creativity. Most of us don\u2019t want to be boring with our interiors. Colors of the year make us think beyond the basic red, blue, yellow, green, or black and white, or even beige.<\/p>\n Third<\/strong>: It helps us learn about different paint brands and what they offer.<\/p>\n Color plays an important role in how interior decorating affects mental health. Color moves us. Color can set a mood and create a conversation. The website colorpsychology.org<\/a> puts it this way: \u201cIt can excite or soothe your mood, raise or lower your blood pressure, even whet your appetite! Whether it\u2019s innate or learned, it\u2019s undeniable that color has a vital impact on how we go about our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n So take your pick and make 2024 more colorful. If you would like help from our color consultants contact us<\/a> or call (407) 902-3011<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you enjoyed reading this interior design blog, sign up for our monthly newsletter. They\u2019re never too long and will brighten your day!<\/p>\n \n Get ready with a trumpet fanfare! The Pantone Color of the Year for 2024 is …<\/h4>\n
PEACH FUZZ. Yes, Peach Fuzz it is. Pantone 13\u20141023<\/h4>\n
\nHotel lobby courtesy of Pantone.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nBenjamin Moore<\/h3>\n
\nBlue Nova by Benjamin Moore.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nAdd these paint manufacturer’s 2024 picks to the kaleidoscope<\/h3>\n
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\nCracked Pepper by Behr.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nHow did all this start anyway?<\/h3>\n
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