"Surprising colour combinations" define Raw Color's IKEA collection

[Celerity]

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/02/28/raw-color-ikea-tesammans-collection/







On the heels of a two-year research process, Dutch studio Raw Color has released an IKEA collection in which no item features less than two colours to explore how our perception of a hue can change based on its context. Under the name Tesammans, which means together in a Swedish dialect, the range incorporates 15 different colours across 18 pieces of furniture, homeware and lighting.







This makes it the most colourful collection that IKEA creative leader Maria O'Brian has seen in nearly a decade of working at the Swedish furniture giant. "It's really lovely, the way that Tesammans has combined colours in the same object," O'Brian told Dezeen. "I don't think there's anything that's uni-coloured in the collection and that's often how we've used colours historically."







By focusing primarily on smaller furniture pieces and homeware, Raw Color hopes to offer shoppers an easy and accessible way to "embrace colour instead of keeping everything black, white and grey". "Somehow, people are quite afraid of colour," said Daniera ter Haar, who founded the studio together with Christoph Brach. "Not everyone, of course, but we're talking about the mainstream." "I think people are not really taught anymore how they can use or bring colour into their home."







Raw Color's research-heavy approach involved a lengthy process of selecting 15 distinct shades for the collection. It then paired them in different ways for different products to create what the studio called "surprising colour combinations". The result is a collection of "not the most typical home objects", including a sculptural mobile and a gridded trolley that casts varying shadows depending on the position of the sun. It also features rugs and throws designed to create optical illusions. Reminiscent of the studio's Temperature Textiles, these appear from afar to feature blocks of colour but in reality, they're composed of alternating lines of two different tones.

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[genxlib]

1. I am all for inclusivity

But color blind interior designers might be a bridge too far.

[Celerity]

3. Where were colour blind interior designers mentioned?

[genxlib]

4. They weren't

I was just making a joke. Perhaps a bad one.

I don't think those color combinations work at all.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. The human eye cannot focus properly on red and blue simultaneously.

If those red/blue combinations seem to strobe uncomfortably, there's good reason for that. Continued exposure can lead to visual fatigue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis for lots more

You'd think somebody would have researched that before shipping the product.

[justaprogressive]

5. oh great, the first AI chosen color combinations...

[Celerity]

6. It is not AI. nt

[Coventina]

7. The collection is pretty, but not for me.

I need more restful colors for my home environment.

I really like the collection as works of art, though!

[RobinA]

8. Between The Color

and the style, I don't think I could stay long in any of those rooms.