PARIS — Trend experts Michelle Lamb and Tom Mirabile have been in Paris this past week, scouting trends for HTT sister publication Home Accents Today while at Maison & Objet. Here are three things to keep on your radar as the year progresses:

Mirabile agreed and added that large-scale items are making an impact.

Added Mirabile: “I think joyous is a great way to look at it, but it’s also very dream-like. The scale of things is very large, very simplistic.” He noted irregular combinations and patterns that are basic but on a larger scale. “The idea is to make you laugh, make you smile.” “Think joy, think the impossible,” he concluded. “Then put it on a product.”

Lamb said when it comes to the brown family, caramel is really standing out. She believes we can expect to see more of that color moving forward. And we are seeing less black, Lamb said. “It’s gone off a cliff. This is as true for neutral colors as it is for wood There is almost no black out there as a wood color.” Lamb said that when it comes to wood color, what is there has gone back to neutrals such as light ash, oak and beech. For his part, Mirabile said he is seeing a lot more geometrics including cylinders, triangles and squares. Geometrics have been soft the past few years, Mirabile said, but he is now seeing those harden up. “If you want to get a good sense of it look up Post Modernist. There is a lot of that Memphis influence over the colors now, although they’ve certainly been updated,” Mirabile said. See also: