Jennifer Sheahan: How Pantone Colour of the Year influences home interiors trends
![Jennifer Sheahan: How Pantone Colour of the Year influences home interiors trends Jennifer Sheahan: How Pantone Colour of the Year influences home interiors trends](/cms_media/module_img/7713/3856834_15_articlesmall_M_26O_Sept23_HALL5A_INSPIRE_20ME_0151_c2_a9AETHION.jpeg.jpg)
Viva Magenta, the 2023 Pantone Colour of the Year, at Maison & Object this autumn.
Sometime in the next few weeks, Pantone is going to reveal its 2024 Colour of the Year.
As ever, this event will be met with much excitement and celebration. But what is Pantone and what does its colour of the year have to do with home interiors? I don’t know what the 2024 colour of the year is going to be yet (although I have some guesses if anybody cares to make this interesting), but whatever it is it will, as always, have a big impact on the world of design globally — interiors included.
The very first colour chosen in 2000 was Cerulean — a sky-blue colour (The Devil Wears Prada, anyone?). On the eve of the Millennium, this colour was intended to reflect a sense of peace and hopefulness for the future.
This may come as no surprise to you because I feel like this colour is everywhere this year! Viva Magenta is a very bright, bold, vivid, reddish, bluish, purple-pink colour. It is intended to represent those with a “verve for life and rebellious spirit”.
![Viva Magenta in the Bordallo Pinheiro collection. Viva Magenta in the Bordallo Pinheiro collection.](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7713/3856831_15_articleinline_BORDALLO_20PINHEIRO_20_2_.jpeg)
![Viva Magenta used as a backdrop theme for Denby ware. Viva Magenta used as a backdrop theme for Denby ware.](https://www.irishexaminer.com/cms_media/module_img/7717/3858559_2_articleinline_Colour_20mood_20pink_20shelf_201.tif_72025_1_.jpg)