Pantone launches home furnishing color & design catalogue

International Home & Housewares Show 2013, PANTONE ColorWatch Display (Hall of Global Innovation, located in the Lakeside Level 3 Lobby) -- Pantone, an X-Rite company and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, announced PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2014, a trend forecast containing the nine key color and design themes for home furnishings and interior design for 2014.

"Consumers are becoming increasingly color savvy and color aware," said Leatrice Eiseman , executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. "With consumers seeking distinctive styling and considerable substance more than ever before, it is critical that retailers and designers be aware of future color trends. To successfully entice consumers, colors and color combinations must be appealing, evocative, transformative and most importantly, on-target."

PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2014 is a forecasting book that provides color and trend direction for home furnishings or interior spaces.

PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2014 contains visual inspiration, suggested color harmonies, individual tear-out palette cards for each of the nine forecasted palettes, swatches of the 74 forecasted colors, and images from the forecast for use in presentations and storyboards. Highlighting additional insight and direction, a summary page concludes the forecast with a comprehensive color overview and a look at other factors influencing the world of home furnishings and interior environments. To enable digital design, PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2014 also includes PANTONE COLOR MANAGER for direct download of all PANTONE Color Libraries into design software.

The nine palettes for 2014 are: Techno Color, Physicality, Sculpted Simplicity, Fluidity, Collage, Intimacy, Moda, Tribal Threads and Eccentricities.

About Pantone

Pantone LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, is the world's color authority, providing design professionals with products and services for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity. This year, Pantone celebrates its 50th anniversary. Always a source for color inspiration, Pantone also offers paint and designer-inspired products and services for consumers.

About X-Rite

X-Rite, Incorporated, is the global leader in color science and technology. The company, which now includes color industry leader Pantone, develops, manufactures, markets and supports innovative color solutions through measurement systems, software, color standards and services. X-Rite's expertise in inspiring, selecting, measuring, formulating, communicating and matching color helps users get color right the first time and every time, which translates to better quality and reduced costs. X-Rite serves a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, dental and medical.