In a groundbreaking collaboration, global color authority Pantone Color Institute has joined forces with high-end AI-driven home appliance and smart home brand COLMO to introduce the 2025 Home Color of the Year Cloud Satin White. This announcement has sparked intense discussions across the home design industry.
A Bold Leap from Fashion to Home Interiors
For years, Pantone’s color trends have been a defining force in the fashion world. From the runways of Paris and Milan to limited-edition beauty collections and luxury retail displays, Pantone’s influence is undeniable. Now, leveraging its success in fashion, Pantone is setting its sights on a broader market.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, retail sales of household appliances and audiovisual products in 2024 surpassed the trillion yuan mark, growing by 12.3% year over year, a historic high. The premium home appliance sector, in particular, has seen significant growth. Pantone’s strategic move into the home design space, in partnership with COLMO, marks a significant crossover from fashion into interiors, addressing the increasing consumer demand for personalized and stylish home environments.
Industry experts describe this as a bold step, breaking away from the industrial standardization of home products and encouraging designers to incorporate a wider range of color elements into their work. As one insider put it, “Pantone is challenging traditional notions of home design, inspiring new creative perspectives.”
Merging Home Aesthetics and Material Innovation
Laurie Pressman, Vice President of the Pantone Color Institute, highlighted how COLMO Cloud Satin White blends luxury with cutting-edge technology, leading interior design into a tech-driven, avant-garde realm. The finish exudes a soft, floating light effect that awakens the senses, reflecting a contemporary yearning for purity and authenticity. This innovative material narrative evokes poetic imagery of the world beyond our own.
Cloud Satin White features a soft, pure hue that fosters an atmosphere of warmth, tranquility, and sophistication, perfectly aligning with the rising popularity of cream aesthetics and French-inspired interiors. Touted as a mood-enhancing essential, this shade embodies understated luxury and effortless elegance, resonating with the modern desire for a home that feels designed yet unforced.
Unlike traditional single-tone colors, Cloud Satin White achieves a multidimensional sensory experience, integrating visual depth, tactile refinement, and warmth. The multi-layer coating technology combined with ultra-clear glass creates a unique depth, transforming light reflections into dynamic visual interplay. On a tactile level, COLMO engineers have developed skin-like AG matte glass with AF anti-fingerprint coating, ensuring a velvety, ultra-smooth feel. In terms of warmth perception, Cloud Satin White seamlessly harmonizes with natural home elements, wall finishes, balcony cabinetry, flooring, and soft furnishings striking the perfect balance between crisp modernity and inviting warmth.
Kim Hong Sik, Chief Director of Industrial Design at COLMO, elaborated on the meticulous craftsmanship behind Cloud Satin White: “By blending 92.2% pure white with 7.8% warm tones, we preserved the pristine clarity of white while eliminating its starkness, achieving a luminous natural warmth reminiscent of sunlight. Our design team pioneered a new AG nano-etching technique combined with AF oil-repellent coating, allowing the glass surface to diffuse light gently while offering an unprecedentedly smooth, delicate texture. Cloud Satin White is the ultimate fusion of technology and aesthetics, demonstrating how innovation can create spaces that feel both advanced and intimately connected to human nature.”
Pantone’s color experts emphasize that while Cloud Satin White has been introduced as the 2025 Home Color of the Year, its impact extends well beyond current trends. Designed to align with the evolution of home aesthetics over the next 10 to 20 years, this shade is deeply rooted in color psychology, material adaptability, and spatial harmony. Every aspect of its development has been meticulously refined to ensure timeless appeal, a hue that transcends fleeting trends to shape the future of home design.
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