
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:
Beige was the top color seen at Maison & Objet, according to Lamb and Mirabile. “All sorts of off-white neutrals are here, and consumers want calm, cozy and safe at home and this neutral palette is what is doing it for them,” said Lamb. (Meanwhile, HAT trend advisor Keith Recker was quoted in a recent Guardian article about the “sad beige” trend.)
Mirabile agreed and added that large-scale items are making an impact.
Surrealism is also a pervasive theme in Paris. Lamb describes it as a multi-layered look with many meanings. “If you look at it on the surface, it’s really whimsical, and joyful,” she said. “And if you go a little bit below the surface, you can get a connection of man and nature, and animals, and the environment.”
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.”
When it comes to what they are seeing more of and less of at the market, both Lamb and Mirabile are seeing more pattern and packed patterns in the market. Lamb believes we’ll see more of those in both 2025 and 2026.
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.
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