As every year in December, the Pantone Color Institute indicates what will be the “Pantone Color of the year“ for the following year, a moment that is highly anticipated by companies because it influences product development and directs purchasing decisions in various sectors, from fashion to interior design, from product packaging to graphic design.
After the lively and bright shade chosen for 2019, the Living Coral, the Pantone Color of the Year 2020 is the Classic Blue 19-4052, an elegant and deep color that goes well with the world of furniture and design.

PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue: features

A refined and timeless shade of blue, PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue is a relaxing colour that offers a sense of peace and tranquility. It evokes the beauty of the sky at dusk, instilling calm and inviting reflection. Non-aggressive and reassuring shades PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue is a classic colour, easy to apply in different materials, textures and finishes.
Transmitting a sense of protection, PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue is certainly one of the favourite shades for home furnishings and in fact some of the most important Italian and international brands have already interpreted this new trend by enriching their collections with some products made in this splendid shade of blue.

Classic Blue, color PANTONE 2020, in the furniture

PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue is a colour between indigo and cobalt, elegant, bright, warm and reassuring, easy to match and to insert in classic or modern environments.
Comfortable and enveloping, Dialma Brown's armchair is upholstered in fabric with a capitonné effect in the beautiful Classic Blue shade, while Baleri Italia offers in this colour one of its most representative products “Cartoons“, a self-supporting screen in corrugated paper designed by Luigi Baroli, winner of the Compasso d'Oro Award in 1994.
Even the door handles are characterised by colour: this is the case of Club di Olivari model, designed by Vico Magistretti, born from the idea of creating a handle with a leather covering to make it pleasant to the touch.
For the kitchen environment, generally dominated by neutral tones or white, Officine Gullo presents a professional cooking machine consisting of a static gas or electric oven and hob with four burners; the entire structure is made of thick stainless steel, painted in “Classic Blue“ colour while the finishes are in chrome-plated brass.
The Classic Blue, Pantone 2020 colour, is also perfect for furnishing accessories, being a very elegant colour that can be easily matched with the other tones generally present in the home, whether neutral, such as ecru or turtledove, or with a strong chromatic impact as in the case of brighter colours such as red, yellow or purple. Many companies have chosen Classic Blue to propose carpets, cushions, flower vases, lamps, quilts playing in advance of the trends that will be fashionable tomorrow.
PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue will therefore be the protagonist color of next year; if you want you can look at the Pantone Color of 2019 click here