Bid Goodbye to the Best of Rose Quartz and Serenity in Singapore

With Pantone's announcement of the Colour of the Year 2017, it's time for 2016's pair to bow out

Chiquit Brammall 13 December 2016

Design journalist and freelance editor. Dollhouse architect. Serial renter.

Rose Quartz and Serenity, Pantone’s Colour(s) of the Year 2016, were hotly debated colours – “baby boy and girl?” many questioned. Surprisingly, used individually or together, 2016’s Colour of the Year lent itself well to small spaces and Scandi-style interiors. And of course Singapore designers were quick – and clever – to use.

How to Work With Pantone’s Colours of 2016

Before 2017’s Colour of the Year, Greenery, fills up the internet, design proposals and retail outlets, let’s take a look back at how Rose Quartz and Serenity freshened up interiors.

Free Space Intent

Pastels in Punggol
Designer Raymond Seow of Free Space Intent is known for his bold hues of colour, so this softly hued home by him was a lovely surprise. Scandinavian-inspired, the four-room HDB flat features Rose Quartz and Serenity in tastefully restrained doses throughout the house, but in sweet, full force in the study.

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E & A Interiors

Brightening up a black-and-white house
Designer Elizabeth Acland of E & A Interiors used shades similar to Rose Quartz and Serenity generously yet separately throughout this house as wall colours, and then brought them together in the upstairs living room.

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Aaron Poon

Sleek but sweet
In this fresh and sophisticated take on Rose Quartz and Serenity, furniture and accessories take their colour cues from the abstract art on the wall.

Vivid Snaps Photography

Pops of colour
One of each colour for the cushion and bar stool completely changes this neutral home!

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