The Color Show

Color, a five-letter word but with a meaning so deep, it touches and moves our lives profoundly. Did you know that color can influence your mood, eating habits or sleeping routine? Color is in everywhere and in everything, and the best exponent of color and its influence in our lives is PPG Pittsburg Paints.

PPG is a well-established group of over 100 years leading the market of coatings, specialty products and services. Recently, PPG Pittsburgh Paints throughout its certified dealer in Baja California Sur, Productos Famza, presented the upcoming tendencies of color in the program The Voice of Color, and ESCAPES Magazine was invited to  participate at the event, and experience the new color trends for 2010/11.

The Voice of Color was developed on the premise that every color has an emotional association and that individuals are drawn to different colors for reasons inherently tied to their unique personalities. With more than 1,800 colors to choose from, it offers their signature five-color decorating color chips to assist homeowners, architects, engineers and designers in choosing colors for all the décor elements in their space. PPG employs more than 20 color stylists around the world, each specializing in different markets, who collaborate to determine styles and color trends for the home, electronics, and automobiles.

For their market in the South of Baja, Productos Famza presented The Color Show and invited top American Interior Designer Karolyn Spagnolo to talk about the new tendencies in color and design. “Today’s color trends have staying power. You renew instead of buying new. You choose sustainable colors with an environmental and economic awareness that’s becoming second nature for us all”, mentioned Karolyn during her presentation.

The new color trend palettes for this season are:

CANVAS

The palette is minimal, organic, and spacious. Canvas is a sophisticated blend of the modern and the rustic with clean and uncluttered design. It is characterized by simplified shapes, natural materials, raw textures, and rugged surfaces.

GRACE

The palette is refined, romantic, and sumptuous. Grace embraces the look of precious metals, mirrored surfaces, shimmering silks, and soft woven jacquards. With discerning taste, Grace assuredly mixes gold tones and antique brass, sateen, cashmere, damask, crystal, and well-loved adornments.

PINK CITY

A vibrant, profound Indian pink and a spicy rusty orange play against an off-white linen. A stony gray and a chocolate brown combine to reflect urbanity, masculinity, and a grounding place for the rest of the palette.

ZEST

Through a mix of geometric forms, quirky shapes, and bright finishes, Zest provokes a positive and contemporary outlook on design. Zest incorporates retro patterns, transparency, lacquer, angular and faceted cuts, and black and white high gloss objects to brighten favorite spaces.

Throughout the presentation, Karolyn explained that each year, new color trends follow the fluid movement of the home fashion market and resonate with consumers’ desire to constantly reinvent themselves and their living spaces. At the end, Productos Famza hosted an exquisite cocktail where invitees savored fine creations, a glass of wine and were able to ask their questions about materials, coatings and all the different ways to incorporate the new tendencies in color into their lives.

For more information about The Voice of Color program and products and services by Productos Famza in Cabo San Lucas & La Paz, send them an email to famza_2@hotmail.com . www.pinturasfamza.com