What goes into designing spaces that make people feel good?
Interiors can have a profound effect and evoke a physical and emotional response, regardless of the area’s function, just by how the space makes us feel.
It’s true! Elements of design and how they are put into place have the power to create experiences that promote positivity, empowerment, healing, tranquility, and much more. When design is used to engage and inspire, you may respond consciously or subconsciously to the qualities of the space.
All interior spaces speak to us in a sense - they communicate in the form of scale and proportion, color and shape, texture and detail.
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The Process of Creating an Inpro Design Collection Palette
A starting point in the process of creating one of four palettes that make up an Inpro collection is the curation of colors, textures, prints, and finishes.
Think mood board! Mood Board Definition: an arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, etc. intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept.
These elements must be representative of what is taking place in the world around us and the desired feeling or inspiration we want the occupants of a space to experience. Following the initial conceptualization, design collections are specially created for Inpro at the start of each year. The collections are broken out into four palettes, with one palette introduced at the start of each season (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall).
The first palette available in the 2020 Centered Collection is the Balance Palette.
In the first part of our discussion with Aga Artka, Inpro’s go-to LEED accredited and NCIDQ certified professional interior designer, she explained what goes into the development of a full collection. In this portion of our discussion, Aga dives deeper into her many years of experience developing the palettes incorporated into each collection, and the inspiration behind the first of four palettes introduced in the 2020 collection - The Balance Palette.
Inspiration Behind Inpro’s Centered Collection - Balance Palette
Q: What inspired the balance palette?
A: Each of us, in our own way, is dealing with the noise and stress of the world around us. I think the Centered Collection as a whole is the ultimate representation of ways we can deal with what is, at times, the chaos around us. The trend of becoming rooted and finding balance is not going away. In fact, it seems like we’re just getting more and more ingrained in this concept, and our minds are coming around to finding ways to understand how to deal with life in this very busy and stressful world. The Centered Collection is heavily inspired by the world around us and its very powerful factors and influences.
The Balance Palette was inspired by tranquility and peace, and the art of doing nothing. In this very fast-moving world, we need to relearn how to be still. It’s hard to elaborate on the concept of finding yourself, realizing that life needs to be equal parts of many things in order to operate at your best. I take this idea, this very general message and have translated it into a palette that I hope will inspire a designer to incorporate it within an environment that he or she would want to convey balance.
Embrace your inner Om...
Whether it’s a yoga studio, a spa, a lounge, an acupuncture center or another healing environment, the colors and finishes are meant to not only build a space that is balanced, but one that elicits calm and peace.
Q: What do you hope people will feel when they see the Balance Palette?
A: The first palette introduction for the year is called Balance because we hope that’s what it will communicate via color and pattern. We hope that the Balance collection will inspire finding the inner balance within yourself, and within each other.
The Balance palette is colored intentionally utilizing a lot of soft blues and greens. There’s the incorporation of teal and turquoise, which is often associated with the color of water, vacation, and calming or relaxing moments. All of the elements are meant to signify a smooth and gentle introduction to the year with an overarching theme of finding center with this collection.
I need 6 month vacation, twice a year.
I hope the Balance Palette brings joy and self-healing to everyone who gets to work with it and anyone who has the opportunity to experience it installed in a space. I personally connect with this palette on a much deeper level and had a lot of fun pulling it together. I intentionally tried to build a palette that would feel calming and peaceful, and that is certainly what I hope it brings to others.
Q: Why was the Balance Palette introduced first in 2020?
A: The Centered Collection focuses on the practice of simply being, in response to the distraction, stimulation, and fast-paced progression of the modern world. The palettes within this collection complement one another for the purpose of staying present and becoming centered: Balance, Grounding, Intention, and Contemplation.
We want to introduce the 2020 Centered Collection with the freshness of the Balance Palette. The palette explores balance amidst contrast with light colors and neutrals, against deep patterns featuring botanicals and elements that are reminiscent of glass and stone, wood and sky.
The palette is airy and light, but not necessarily soft because the patterns are not subtle. We’re working with geometrics and glass concepts, as well as sharp whites.
What Can Be Expected From the Balance Palette?
Q: Are there any new products brought to the forefront with the introduction of the Balance palette?
A: The Balance Palette includes a few new attributes which incorporate some very needed blues and greens - soft, yet trending statement colors. We've also incorporated new textiles and patterns that are large scale, colored with the beautiful combination of blues, greens, and quite a bit of turquoise. It doesn't seem like woodgrains are going away, and all of this is pulled together with new and existing products to build a strong palette.
We envisioned a designer searching, maybe struggling to find a wall finish. By exploring Inpro’s palettes, they would come across not just the wall finish, but also an abundance of other finishes, across textiles and other product categories, that would go together. Our hope is that perhaps, we save them some time and inspire new solutions that they wouldn't think of otherwise. Our goal is always the same - provide solutions that are functionally useful for interior designers and building professionals working in a multitude of environments.
Did you miss Aga’s post on how a collection is made? Check it out here.
Are you looking for design inspiration and architectural products for your next project? Inpro’s 2020 Centered Collection is a great place to start. Dive into color, fabric, and pattern inspiration and contact Inpro’s knowledgeable team for expert consultation.
