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What are the key interior design trends for 2025?

By Staff Writer

There’s also a strong move toward handcrafted items that tell a story. With maximalist design gaining momentum, we’ll also see reflective, shiny surfaces making an appearance, offset by traditional materials like wood, which will help balance things out.

10 Jan 2024

Five top design and décor trends to look out for in 2024

By Staff Writer

Colour palettes are likely to evolve beyond the aesthetic, becoming a journey through time and reflecting our shared history and heritage. This nuanced approach to nostalgia brings depth and authenticity to living spaces, creating environments that are rich in personal and cultural significance.

12 Dec 2023

Four design trends transforming bathrooms

By Staff Writer

Luxury has had a reboot – it’s less about wealth and extravagance, and more about inner wellbeing and personal fulfilment.

23 Feb 2023

Italtile’s 2023 Trend Forecast

By Staff Writer

Taking inspiration from the Victorian era of sprigged, floral wallpaper, and recent forays into gorgeously full-blown botanical wallpaper art, this breathtaking new concept goes ballistic with all the biophilic feels, bringing nature indoors with wild abandon.

05 Apr 2022

Things to consider when choosing flooring for your warehouse

By Varushka Padayachi

Floors of warehouses need to be resistant to mechanical stress and easy to clean. They should also be long-lasting and cost-effective to maintain. Here are some factors to consider when choosing flooring for your warehouse. Resistance to abrasion Stability of industrial floors for your warehouse from abrasive wear is important. Abrasion occurs during the movement...

19 Aug 2020

Covid-19 is driving an important shift in building-design trends

By Staff Writer

New measures need to be taken to ensure the health and well-being of occupants and visitors of buildings and communities at large, says Zutari 12 August 2020: The Covid-19 pandemic is driving important shifts in designing spaces within buildings. This encompasses the provision of fresh air and ventilation, increased monitoring of the internal environment, maintenance...

28 Jul 2020

Italtile Trend Talk

By Staff Writer

Throughout the Italtile year, ongoing staff training includes regular interior design seminars run by Melanie Ewing, founder and CEO of Chapters Design Academy. In the first quarter of 2020, Italtile consultants from Cape Town, Pretoria, Nelspruit and Umhlanga joined their Johannesburg colleagues for an intensive three-day design course that focused on 2020/2021 trends, and how...

23 Nov 2018

Here They Are: Plascon’s 2019 Trends

By Staff Writer

Brainstorms, brush-outs, samples, tester pots, photoshoots, mood boards, late nights and more. After months of research and trend analyses, the wait for colour connoisseurs and paint enthusiasts is over as Plascon reveals their 2019 colour trends and how they’ll make all the difference in the built environment.

09 Nov 2018

Design Trends For 2019

By Staff Writer

A major trend in interior design is to incorporate eclectic vernacular elements that contextualise the space. Therefore, international companies are able to distinguish their regional offices from each other, while retaining their corporate identity.

20 Aug 2018

IMPRESSIVE EXHIBITORS AND TOP DESIGN MARK THE 25th DECOREX JOBURG

By Staff Writer

The 25th edition of Decorex Joburg, presented by Plascon, proved exactly why it continues to be Africa’s largest décor, design and lifestyle exhibition. 57 361 visitors passed through the doors of Gallagher Convention Centre from 8 to 12 August where they got to witness some of the best #rhythmoflife features, products and trends regionally, and from...

29 Jan 2018

2018 Design Trends

By Staff Writer

The finest lifestyle, design and décor trends pulsating across the globe have been expertly identified and elegantly finessed by the Decorex SA team into the 2018 #rhythmoflife trends, set to feature at the Decorex SA exhibitions.

24 Aug 2017

The Plascon Colour Forecast 2018

By Staff Writer

Colour influences every aspect of our lives – from fashion and décor to art and design. Every year, Kansai Plascon publishes their viewpoint on the latest colour trends in their Colour Forecast. It starts with the experts in the brand’s Colour Team surveying the way colour is being used across the creative industries, and then...