COLOR TRENDS 2024 | Decorating with Tan

If you are looking for an update on the color trends for interiors for the next year, these series of “Color Trends 2024” posts are created for you.

Exploring more about a timeless neutral color – tan.

Tan Color trend 2024

Color codes

hex: #B69574; PANTONE Tan 16-1334 TCX / 2316 C

related names: tawny, tenné, fulvous, Tuscan tan, café au lait

Considered a perfect neutral, tan evokes warmth and stability. Suitable to just about any design style – tan is the colour of stability and calm. A pale tone of brown, with a small hint of red inside which confers an additional warmth to it.

The first official use of the word “tan” in English language was recorded back in 1590 from “tannum”, the oak bar used for leather tanning.

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Like other browns, tan it’s an earthy color and for this reason it evokes feelings of security, calm, consistency, trustworthiness, and sanctuary. In feng-shui, brown is strictly related with roots and nature, so it’s considered a stable color to be used as a comforting color at home.

For its connections with nature, tan is often associated with concepts of “organic” yet used often also in graphic design and communication. A natural and neutral color which sets a relaxed and comforting tone, perfect for warm minimalist spaces but also as a background for almost any kind of color.

Compared to beige ( which is often confused with ), tan is a warmer and at the same time darker color. In fact, beige is a lighter shade of brown with a hint of yellow inside, while tan is a shade of brown that contains some red, giving a golden or reddish look to it.

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Tan color trend

Gallery

Bas-relief by Patricia Urquiola for Mutina is a collection of tiles inspired to the ancient art of the bas-relief. It’s available in four different patterns and in three colors.

Alted 01 by Alted Materials is a collection of decorative panels for interior use waste-based, recyclable and non-toxic. In fact they are made with paper industry waste and post-consumer cardboard, with a coating in bio-resins extracted from plant-based waste.

The takeaway sushi chain restaurant Ichi Station in Milan by Valencian design studio Masquespacio is inspired to a futuristic spaceship. Inside of the restaurant a backlit tunnel, expressing the idea of travel and a reference to Japan.

Arkad by Note Design Studio for Zilio A&C is a playful family of pouffes inspired by the familiar architectural form of an arcade, that can be used as a single piece or with multiple pieces to create a seating system.

Peel by Prowl Studio is the first stacking chair which is totally compostable. In fact it is made of a composite which mixes a common bioplastic called polylactic acid (PLA) with the fibres from hemp processing waste – using much less plastic, making the chair lighter but at the same time up to 90% stronger.

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