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Pantone colour of the year

Julia Bilotta - Creative Stylist|15 Jan 2026
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Connection, comfort and harmony

Every year, Pantone offers more than just shade suggestions with their colour of the year, they capture a collective mood for the year ahead. This time around, the mood they’re looking to create is one of calm, clarity and quiet optimism with “Cloud Dancer”, a soft and airy white that’s light yet warm, offering contemporary beauty and timeless appeal. 

In a world that’s asking us to move faster and do more, Cloud Dancer reflects a growing desire to slow things down, rooting itself in simplicity and balance. 

Cloud Dancer
 

A warm and luminous white, Cloud Dancer is different from more bright and clinical whites, with a softness that makes spaces feel calm and inviting rather than cold; think diffused daylight and gentle shadows. Pantone selected Cloud Dancer as a response to the way we’re all starting to rethink our homes. Living spaces aren’t just areas we pass through, nor are they sterile showhome rooms that are never used - they’re the hub where we unwind, gather with the family, work, play and switch off. Cloud Dancer offers a versatile blank canvas that can adapt to all of it, offering a sense of ease and openness while allowing your accents, accessories and touches of personality to take centre stage.

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A great choice for your walls, you can introduce Cloud Dancer and similar shades to your living room across your upholstery and other soft furnishings. Our Oscar sofa in a light, white fabric shade is a great choice to add a tone like Cloud Dancer to your space without disturbing the interior scheme you already love. A shade that enhances natural light and helps soften architectural lines, Cloud Dancer is a great choice for glam or minimalist interior schemes given its versatility; it can be paired with almost anything, from warm woods to brushed metals. A colour that promotes considered choices, it will pair well with any new pieces you introduce to your home. 

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Transformative Teal
 

While Pantone has leaned into a soft, calming shade, WGSN’s colour of the year, “Transformative Teal”, will bring depth and emotional richness to your home. This sophisticated blue-green shade sits at the intersection of calm and confidence that reflects a desire for stability without sacrificing personality. Associated with restoration and balance, this shade is a natural choice for spaces that are centred around comfort and connection. If you don’t want to decorate your space in such a rich tone, choosing a vibrant teal sofa, like the Drift, is a great way to introduce this bold shade into your home, or alternatively accents like throws or scatter cushions are a great way to add touches of this beautiful colour to your home.

Pantone transformative

We’re all about making bold, transformative choices, so why not consider pairing both Pantone’s and WGSN’s colours of the year? The light, inviting tone of Cloud Dancer is the ideal canvas to allow Transformative Teal to shine, and can work together to create a space that feels both considered and comforting.

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Whether you’re drawn to light, cloud-soft neutrals or richer, vibrant shades, these colours are designed to work with how we live now, creating homes that feel calm, flexible and thoughtfully put together. Explore our wide selection of sofas in soft white and transformative teals today, and start to bring these beautiful shades into your living space for 2026.