Our Top 5 Design Trends For 2023

A warm red-purple hue, Viva Magenta, named the Pantone colour of 2023, imparts power and boldness. Rooted in nature, its organic origins hail from the Cochineal Beetle, an insect that produces carmine dye, one of the most precious, strongest, and brightest of the natural dye family.

In interiors, this daring colourway promotes joy and optimism, an excellent choice for furniture, tiling, paint, and wallpaper, working particularly well against neutral tones. Viva Magenta also offers the perfect pop of colour in artwork, home accessories, and flower arrangements.

Artisanal items crafted from natural fibres are woven, knotted, and intertwined. Utilised for modern-day product design, traditional craftsmanship and clever techniques combine to give interiors a home-made quality.

Rattan, cane, and straw derive from various species of palm, typically from the tropical forests of Southeast Asia and Africa. Designers are increasingly promoting these materials and traditional handicrafts for lamps, furniture, chairs, tableware, rugs, and art.

A concoction of colours derived from the earth, this trend is grounding, comforting, and cocooning. Warm tones of burnt orange, red, yellow, brown, caramel, and gold are grouped together to form this joyful medley.

Popular in the Seventies, this palette continues and expands into 2023, working wonderfully with natural materials such as timber, marble, and stone to create a rich and sensuous aesthetic.

Laid-back and nature-inspired, this Spanish Mediterranean aesthetic fuses organic textures and neutral tones. Natural materials, including untreated timber, cane, rattan, stone, clay, and terracotta, are core to achieving this trend.

Simple, uncluttered, bright, and light-filled, Balearic-styled interiors blend modern lines with rustic charm.

Though ‘texture’ is a familiar interior design concept, 2023 sees the trend become increasingly recognised and celebrated, used more frequently and elaborately.

Whilst recent years have seen linear flutes and bands dominate, the use of more irregular and flowing textures and patterns is accelerating. Commonly incorporated in monochrome palettes but welcomed in all schemes, 3D textures and patterns elevate detail and interest in furniture, soft furnishings, ceramics, and tiles.