These palettes and products each represent a new 2010 trend scoped by the experts at COSMOWORLDS. Pick your favorite and give your style a modern guide...
FIND YOUR STYLE
1. Gentle Ease
Gentle Ease is an unpretentious, self-confident style with subtle contrasts in materials and a light, and an easy-going and natural approach to styling.
Designs are clear and reductionist, with mostly natural materials, and are enlivened by delicate minimalistic patterns that draw inspiration from nature.
Cool clarity, subtle, natural allusion, and an impressive simplicity are this style's keynotes. They're stressed through pieces that are fully functional and sensitive to every-day needs, beguilingly easy and use unconventional materials. Wood, with an elegant, clear finish has a central role to play. There is a misty, diffuse, wintery light that provides a dialogue with the cool clarity of this scenario, a filtered light with a softening effect.
2. Creative Verve
Creative Verve is an open, spontaneous style that loves experimentation and improvisation, provides a touch of individuality, and uses retro features as a light-hearted counter-balance for the high-tech influences.
This trend combines unconventional and original lighting designs in an uncomplicated, youthful concept for interiors. Creative ideas, "shabby chic", hand-made features, hints of traditional folk art and vintage styles make for a wide spectrum of styles and offer a multitude of possibilities for individual interpretations of spaces.
3. Contempo Classic
In Contemporary Classic, nostalgic reminiscences of design classics and a timeless aesthetic meet a contemporary feel and modern clarity. The trend combines quality and tradition: this means the use of high-quality materials, top-quality, perfect workmanship with unostentatious, timeless design and understated luxury.
Modern classicism as reflected in the Contemporary Classic involves warm, sensual mood lighting, which brings out the full beauty of the fine materials used, with top-quality hardwoods, varnishes, marble, leather, metallic touches in gold, bronze and nickel as well as stone effects and generally interesting surfaces.
4. Advanced Purism
Futuristic design approaches and progressive use of materials are the hallmarks of Advanced Purism: the style unites iridescence and incorporeality, coolness and metallic effects, as well as a shiny, futuristic purism.
The designs often seem to echo models in biology and the cosmos. In spite of their ultramodern aesthetic and purist, high-tech character, they appear extremely poetic and sensitive.
Polygons, lattice structures and geometrical shapes are equally acceptable here. Chrome, silver, aluminum, polished or ultrafine ceramic surfaces are key features of the style.