Pantone Home Color Forecast 2006: Uptown, Downtown and Out-of-Town

Pantone Home Color Forecast 2006 Uptown Downtown and Out-of-Town
Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today unveiled the eight most directional color palettes for the home furnishings market for 2006.

"In 2006, home furnishings colors will show some interesting new directions, especially in very original, intricate, and not-at-all-formula ic combinations," explained Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.
"Among the eight palettes, there are three major pathways encompassing a sophisticated 'uptown' look, a fun and funky 'downtown' look, and other palettes that are heading 'out-of-town' to bucolic settings or more exotic destinations."

Each palette features a combination of colors from the PANTONE for fashion and home color system, the most widely used and recognized color standard in the world. Consisting of over 1,900 colors, the System makes it possible for designers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers to speak the same color language.

The most directional color palettes for 2006 are Stiletto, Renaissance, Romantic Notions, Pique-Nique, Grounded, Paradiso, Primitif and Pastille.