Living Coral Coloured Lighting: Pantone's 2019 Colour of the Year
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8 Designer Lights That Make the Most of Pantone's 2019 Colour of the Year
For two decades, Pantone's Colour of the Year has influenced product development and purchasing decisions in several industries—including industrial design, fashion, and even home furnishings.
This year, Pantone's trend-setting selection is Pantone 16-1546: Living Coral—a soft pink-orange blend that embodies connection, intimacy, optimism, lighthearted activity, and a desire for playful expression.
"Colour is an equalizing lens through which we experience our natural and digital realities, and this is particularly true for Living Coral," explains Executive Director of the Pantone Colour Institute, Leatrice Eiseman. "With consumers craving human interaction and social connection, the humanizing and heartening qualities displayed by the convivial Pantone Living Coral hit a responsive chord."
If you are as entranced as we are with this lovely blush shade, you're in luck! Our vast collection of decorative lights is sprinkled with luminaires available in finish options that resemble Pantone's Living Coral, which we mention largely because we're about to list several of them in a curated list. Really, it would be a little weird of us to have brought it up at all if we weren't. Which is why we are.
You know what? Let's just get to the list.
Slamp's Clizia Suspension Light
Adriano Rachele's Clizia pendant light from Slamp features a vibrantly elegant floral-inspired design that brings a refined techno-biological feel to interiors. Its orange finish option bears a close resemblance to the Living Coral colour that Pantone selected for 2019—providing a warm, lighthearted accent for any setting.
FontanaArte's Pangen Collection
Though a deeper shade than the Pantone's Living Coral, the orange finish option of FontanaArte's Pangen ceiling light and Pangen pendant achieve a similar impact in producing a lively, life-affirming feeling.
This designer lighting collection's smooth, subtle line emphasizes the pop of warm colour, making it a natural and complementary contrast spaces comprised of neutral colours.
FLOS' Bon Jour Versailles Table Lamp
The elegance of the Bon Jour Versailles table lamp from FLOS is maximized with a copper-finished metal crown that almost mirrors Living Coral. Great for modern and traditional settings alike, this luxurious Philippe Starck piece is resplendently decadent.
Foscarini's Twiggy Be/Colour! Floor Lamp
Foscarini's new limited-edition Be/Colour! Capsule Collection versions of the Twiggy floor lamp add a vibrant twist to Marc Sadler's iconic floor light design.
In the stunning three-colour combination pictured above, this luminaire commands attention while completing spaces with a glamorous and friendly touch of Living Coral.
Roll & Hill's Kazimir Wall Light
Produced for Roll & Hill by bi-coastal design firm Ladies & Gentleman Studio, the Kazimir wall light is a stylish accent light that does more with less.
Constructed with three pieces of glass, this geometric luminaire is available in both satin nickel and a satin brass-finished steel connector that contributes to the light source's effusive presence through a Living Coral-like hue.
Kartell's Bloom Suspension Light
The Bloom suspension light from Kartell is a true standout. Its captivating thermoplastic technopolymer exterior is an explosion of texture and luxury, playing with reflections from the light source housed within. In a lustrous copper finish, this design embodies the spirit of Living Coral: fun, optimistic, and joyful.
Slamp's Dimple Penta Collection
Slamp's Dimple Penta collection is made with an innovative design that possesses a unique appeal. Available as a floor lamp and as a suspension light, its sleek cylindrical diffusers are defined with holes that reveal its ever-changing colours. Though darker than Living Coral, its "orange" finish option features a unique transition that blends into a lovely dark shade of pink.
Innermost's Snowdrop Suspension Light
Innermost's Snowdrop suspension lamp is an adorable pendant great for lightening the mood in any room. Holding a blown glass sphere within, the lampshade is available in six colours—all possessing that unique, youthful quality you'd often associate with cartoons and candy. In its pink finish, this piece exemplifies sweet sophistication.
One of the advantages of Pantone's Colour of the Year announcements is that each year's choice complements the previous year's. This allows the fanatically-fashionable to build coordinated interiors that remain timeless even as they follow the trends.
Explore more colourful possibilities in our webstore or let us help you build the perfectly-coordinated designer lighting plan by contacting one of our offices and showrooms in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Kelowna, and Winnipeg.