Following a string of successful Trend events throughout 2015, including a state-of-the-art demonstration at the Saint Gobain Innovation Centre in London, Finsa UK brought its latest innovations to the Surface Design Show 2016.
The company exhibited products such as Superpan Decor, Compacmel, Fibraplast Lucent and the Studio Collection, which features a range of melamine embossed-in register designs.
Visitors to the stand were also introduced to Finsa’s new Trendbook 2015-2016, which was produced in partnership with the renowned Global Color Research trend prediction agency. The inspirational 70-page Trendbook acknowledges the importance of how social and cultural changes define the way we live and how we consume, and how new innovations in technology inspire future surfaces.
Finsa has identified four key trends for the current design period – Embrace, Pioneer, Construct and Nurture. Embrace is the trend against the hardness of the digital age, and the need for creating multi-sensory spaces; Nurture is the growing trend to take better care of our natural resources by creating convincing surface materials through innovation; Pioneer looks at the impact of material technology and innovation; while Construct focuses on interiors rooted in artisan craftsmanship and heritage.
Following a short presentation on these four key trends, visitors were invited to experiment with four interactive installations that encourage people to embrace their senses. Each installation relied on tactile interaction to change a landscape, including a collection of pyramid structures that change colour and emit sound in accordance with the user’s hand movements over a sensor. Another installation offered a rendering software that allowed the user to place and move blocks on an interactive surface to see how certain colours and materials would look in a real room.
