The coveted Dulux Color Awards are celebrating 40 years and the 2026 winners have been introduced.
A choose variety of extraordinary tasks throughout 10 distinct classes have been recognised by a panel of leaders within the design world.
Dulux color and design supervisor Lauren Treloar mentioned color took centre stage throughout the profitable tasks.
For forty years, we’ve got highlighted the potential of color to rework structure and design, and applauded those that most masterfully make use of it to boost our consumer expertise.
– Lauren Treloar, Dulux
“Our long-running awards are thought to be a design business vanguard, distinctive for his or her recognition of color as an integral design instrument,” Treloar says.
“For forty years, we’ve got highlighted the potential of color to rework structure and design, and applauded those that most masterfully make use of it to boost our consumer expertise.
“In all these profitable tasks, the architects, designers and college students confidently step away from conventional or stereotypical palettes and functions to point out us what is feasible when color is prioritised as a foundational design instrument,” Treloar says.
Within the residential classes, the winners’ use of colour-drenching and nods to fashionable nostalgia elicited sturdy emotional responses from the judging panel, with many tasks that includes daring, heat shades to realize visible saturation.
Winner of the residential inside class is The View by Studio Shields.
“The View is a seven-year reimagining of a house poised within the treetops of the Yarra Valley, the place color types each the emotional and architectural framework of the interiors,” designer Ruby Shields says.
“Developed in shut dialogue with the encompassing panorama, the palette attracts from oxidised earth, eucalyptus cover, dry grasses and shifting skies, permitting the inside to really feel inseparable from the panorama.”
Shields says chartreuse and olives heighten the pure inexperienced of the bushland that’s past the home windows.
Whereas using burgundy and earthy reds floor intimate zones, echoing the soil in addition to the distinctive great thing about aged timber.
“Powdered electrical blues mood heat and introduce readability,” Shields says.
“These refined shifts construct a tonal narrative, so motion by means of the house unfolds as a thought of journey.”
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