Color can energize any space, whether in a home or commercial setting. But if you’re looking to design with just pops as opposed to large swaths, check out these five recently launched products that do the job to varying degrees. (And serve other functions, to boot.)
Italian company Fontanot transforms the ordinary, utilitarian metal-spiral stairs into an eye-catching centerpiece. Its new Clip dry-painted staircases are offered in five hues — blue, green, orange, violet, and white — ensuring that there’s a complementary color for every space and decor. The staircase kit is DIY and reportedly easy to install clockwise or counterclockwise within a single day.
CLIP spiral staircase kits from Fontanot.
Recalling stepping stones in streams and rivers, Colours is a fully upholstered seating series conceived by French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance for Bernhardt Design. The playful and vibrant organically shaped pieces are finished with flat tops and can stand alone or be arranged in rows, clusters, or other configurations. The designer explains, “The irregularity of these shapes and the fluidity of the groupings help create a very inviting visual in an architectural world that is relatively linear.” The units can be upholstered in any Bernhardt Textiles fabric or leather or COM.
Bernhardt Design’s Colours seating designed by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.
BuzziSpace CNC-cuts visually grabbing designs into its proprietary eco-felt for use as hangings against or apart from walls. Called BuzziFalls, the hangings can help absorb sound, divide space, or create semi-privacy in open-plan settings. Each comes in two sizes — 31-1/2 inches wide by 86-1/2 inches high or 31-1/2 inches wide by 98-1/2 inches high — and in a range of vibrant colors. The kit includes a metal profile and cables.
BuzziSpace’s BuzziFalls as dividers and wall hangings.
Cylinder lights get a bold makeover courtesy of CSL. Its LED Cylinders, previously finished in white or metallic colors only, are now available in a selection of 19 super-saturated galvanized finishes, from tangerine orange to Aegean blue. The pendants come in three sizes: 6-3/4 inches long with a two-inch aperture; 9-3/8 inches with a three-inch aperture; or 11-1/2 inches with a five-inch aperture. Depending on which size is specified, it produces illumination of 700 to 2,500 lumens.
CSL’s LED Pendants.
Here’s a fun, modern take on traditional knitted and embroidered Nordic clothing: Folklore from Sina Pearson renders a diamond-pattern motif in pixels and in 10 on-trend colorways. The contract-grade upholstery jacquard is woven of 88-percent polyester and 12-percent acrylic and exceeds 40,000 double rubs (Wyzenbeek). The high-performance fabric is easily washable/cleanable.
Sina Pearson’s Folklore.