New design spaces

With "Color Opinions", Object Carpet has developed a design concept for textile floor coverings that allows for a sensitive use of colors and structures. The collection was developed in collaboration with trend researchers and color designers Livia Baum and Jutta Werner from zukunftStil, who defined various colors in different carpet qualities in an intensive trend scouting and monitoring process. This allows large areas to be designed individually in 90 color combinations, and Livia Baum and Jutta Werner were able to access Object Carpet's wide range of color and material worlds during development: "The color diversity that Object Carpet offers was of course a huge advantage in the development of Color Opinions. With over 1,000 qualities and colorways, great possibilities have arisen through the combination of color and structure, which perfectly express the respective trends," say the two trend researchers.

Now Object Carpet presents an update for "Color Opinions" and introduces both new products and a working tool for planners and consultants. The three style worlds "Natural Contrast", "Soft Minimalism" and "Intensive Grace" bring a creative play to the floor, with which individual design wishes can be easily implemented: "Natural Contrast deliberately focuses on themes from nature and culture. Authenticity and humanity are the central values here. Soft Minimalism combines deceleration with digitality, which finds expression in soothing colors and soft chalk tones. Intensive Grace is an expressive reinterpretation of elements of Baroque, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. We also like to speak of an elegant maximalism, consisting of dark, noble tones, which on the one hand provide security, and on the other hand develop their very own charm through innovative and fresh color accents," Livia Baum and Jutta Werner explain the concept of the three style worlds.

Each style world is assigned to the application areas Be:Create, We:Work, Re:Generate, Open:Space and Pure:Line, for which there are different room atmospheres and which have now been expanded to include 15 new trend colors on five different textile structures. In addition, there is a new trend booklet, a view book, mood boards in drawers for showrooms and a new design fan as a working tool for planners and architects. The latter is available in a handy format of 100x180 millimeters and serves as a source of inspiration with 90 concrete color recipes, structured according to room atmospheres, trend worlds and desired effect. This makes it possible to create both high-contrast, accentuated and tone-in-tone combinations of textile floor coverings with different materials.

Planners thus immediately know which approaches are possible in the design of floor coverings. For example, in the "Intensive Grace" trend world and on the We:Work cards, they will find concrete suggestions for material combinations and carpets in a work environment designed to promote concentration, communication and effectiveness. For meeting rooms where creativity is called for, the cards from Be:Create offer vivid examples. The design fan thus serves as a creative tool that can be used to design multi-layered spaces, as Livia Baum and Jutta Werner explain: "The question was: How do we show as simply as possible which combinations of the individual style worlds look particularly good? With the practical tool, we give users recipes that impressively show the combination of color and materiality in a room and offer over 100 options for inspiration."