Color Craze Holiday Gift Guide: 10 Gifts in Pantone's Color of the Year 2020, Classic Blue
My modus operandi is to always honor the Gods of Color, Pantone, the OGs of divine hues and palettes. I pay homage to them with the very existence of this blog. When the annual selection of their Color of the Year rolls around, it's THE event for those of us who live and die by the palette. And this year was no exception. While I was not able to attend the live event in held in New York City, I did wait in anticipation with others via Instagram. The game of "guess what the color will be" was fierce and in the end, my wish for a vibrant blue was granted. So, in honor of the selection of Classic Blue as the shade for 2020, I'm ending my Holiday Gift Guide series with 10 great home decor items to give in a color Pantone calls "a timeless and enduring blue hue elegant in its simplicity."
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First, Pantone offers several accessories for the well decorated desk that I adore. Every year you can find the Color of the Year notebook and coffee cup on my own desk in my studio (see above). Shop Pantone's Lifestyle Shop here.
Color Craze Holiday Gift Guide Product Board
1. Design Art Oversized Modern Wall Clock
4. JONATHAN ADLER - Sorrento Backgammon Set
5. XOOPAR Yoyo Finger Bluetooth Speaker
6. MOMA Design Store Wire Mesh Basket
8. kate spade new york Charlotte Street Glassware Collection
Fellow color lovers, I wish you a happy, color-filled Holiday season! I'll be back in January 2020 with more color commentary!
Until next time,
Because color is so much a part of my life, I tend to do a lot of things in groupings based on color combinations that strike me as unusual, energetic, peaceful or powerful. My mood guides me and I see everything in shades and hues and palette possibilities. Shopping for gifts is one activity that I sometimes do in color duos, trios or families. Call it quirky, but since I'm far from a traditionalist when it comes to color, it's much more fun for me to connect to a palette I adore and search for gifts in those colors for the people I love and care for. I do take their likes and desires into consideration so as you can imagine, shopping this way can also be very challenging and time-consuming. I'll bet you're saying "I won't be doing this. The last thing I need is more things to take up my limited time during the Holiday season!" I get it. Well, I've done the shopping for you! Over the next few weeks, I will be presenting my Color Craze Holiday Gift Guide Series! I've selected colors that I hope you and your giftees will like as much as I do and I've hunted down gifts for everyone on your list!
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We have a tendency to limit ourselves to colors that so-called "authorities" have deemed appropriate for a specific season. And when we do, we deprive ourselves of the joy of having all of the beautiful hues that we can visualize available to us all year round. That's not living a truly color-filled life and seems rather boring. While it's true that we are on the cusp of Fall and Orange is well known for being a traditional color for the season, few people wear it as freely as they may in warmer months when it is a bright, cheery, citrus-y symbol of the carefree life. Well, don't you want to be carefree in November too? I know that wearing Orange head-to-toe may be, uh...aggressive for some but when you add a rich blue in a light to dark shade to the mix, you get a wearable combination that can be mixed and matched regardless of the time of year.
