Akzo Nobel’s World Colour and Design crew for Wooden Coatings will present insights into the most recent colour improvements and developments on the Excessive Level Market in North Carolina.

The World Colour and Design crew works to grasp and interpret the influence of style and life-style on colours and results utilized in paints and coatings. In the course of the Excessive Level Market, which takes place April 13-17, AkzoNobel specialists can be sharing their insights into the colour and design influences driving the house furnishings sector.

“Colour influences our furnishings, our properties, and our lives. Sharing our analysis and experience in colour, texture, and finishes is on the coronary heart of what we do as an organization. Our goal is to work along with our prospects to search out the right resolution for his or her wants, based mostly on our lengthy expertise and in-depth market insights,” explains Bryan Hodges, colour and design supervisor, wooden coatings, at AkzoNobel.

Akzo Nobel’s 2024 Colour of the 12 months is Candy Embrace, a welcoming pastel pink impressed by delicate feathers and night clouds. The corporate says it displays the findings of world developments – that in an unsure world, persons are in search of belonging and reassurance. Out there in quite a lot of finishes and for various purposes, Candy Embrace is a chance for designers and woodworkers in furnishings, flooring, cupboards and constructing merchandise to offer a heat, calm, and liberating setting for purchasers.

To carry Candy Embrace to life in real-world purposes, AkzoNobel’s World Wooden Design has created three distinctive palettes, or “colour tales,” all pushed by the themes of belonging, calm and pleasure:

• Transitional – a heat colour story, combining shades of stone, soil, and clay.
• Cottage – a relaxed colour story, bringing collectively the delicate greens and blues of the woods and the ocean.
• Modern – an uplifting colour story, with dreamy lilacs, fluid grays and trendy yellows.