Trend Union MATERIAL REVELATIONS 2024-2025-2026

Li Edelkoort is pleased to launch Trend Union’s newest tool — the Material & Colour Forecast — inspiring exciting directions for colours, materials and finishes.

This forecast is especially intended for A&D professionals working in furniture, flooring, textiles, walls, tiles and all hard surfaces, as well as fashion, footwear, beauty, automotive and more…

Studying pigments can help us to make progress and write engaging scenarios for the future. CMF designers will work on even newer materials that will colour our objects, robots and interiors while inspiring innovation and originality — pigments that heal and reach out to the human race in its race against the clock. These almost alive colours and organic substances are imbedded with energy, creating emotional alliances with customers, where colours, finishes and surfaces become vehicles for revelation and self-expression. Making us an intrinsic part of a brave new world.

This new tool includes a digital image bank, Pantone references, textile samples and texts. 

 Trends include:

1. SOIL SAMPLES
2. ANCIENT OCHRES
3. ROCK SEDIMENTS
4. METALLIC TINCTURES
5. EGYPTIAN SYNTHETICS
6. MUMMY CHROMATISM
7. CYCLADIC MARMOREAL
8. WHITE COLOURANTS
9. MASTER OIL PAINTS
10. PHYTOPLANKTON PIGMENTS
11. ORGANIC MELANINS
12. PRECIOUS POWDERS
13. ROBOTIC EMULSIONS
14. CRYPTO COLOURS
15. BRUTALIST DARKS