Fresh 2 is a new range of 10 surface trends inspired by a year of extensive research and created by Kronospan’s design team.
The new wood surfaces are style predictions, based on current international trends, that will shape products and styles across the furniture and interior sector over the coming year.
Our Fresh 2 trends are informed by an exhausting mission to immerse ourselves into the global design industry. We use this research to forecast future trends and give our customers the opportunity to keep pace with the surface design ‘catwalk’.
Fresh 2 looks to where interior trends will develop from the current desire for nostalgia and vintage; the desire for natural materials, form and tactility; and an increasingly family-minded consumer who craves unpretentious and welcoming interiors.
Economic impact
Economic conditions will also continue to drive the desire for unostentatious aesthetics. There is a sense of a growing need to get back to basics, with soft colours and austere beauty to appeal to both heads and hearts.
As a vital part of its research Kronospan held a consultation event late last year called The For(u)m at its Centre for Design Excellence in Chirk, North Wales. The For(u)m was an exclusive opportunity for the industry’s leading manufacturers, designers, shopfitters and distributors to shape Fresh 2 trends.
With knowledge gained from the For(u)m and a 12-month global design journey of more than 4,000 miles, Kronospan created new designs inspired by the trend for unpolished, tactile surfaces – both interior and exterior. These raw trends can be combined with ultra modern elements to stunning effect.
The use of wood inspired surfaces will continue to get bolder and will be a major design element used in flooring, panels and feature walls. The use of wood grain will be tempered and broken up by subtle, soft and matt uni-colours.
All Fresh 2 decors are partnered by matching laminates and edgings.
