56 colours by Margrethe Odgaard Inspired by the beauty of natural minerals

 

In her quest for industry’s poetry and humanity, Danish textile designer and color alchemist Margrethe Odgaard continuously explores the interaction between colors, materials, light and space. Margrethe focuses on the colors’ different competences and to help you make use of what colors have to offer, she has developed 56 ever-relevant floor surface colors. Before digging further into the 56 beautiful colors, let’s look down. To the floor; to the foundation for the entire room; to the surface on which we trust to find stability and security. Why? To see the floor’s potential.

Can you see the floor’s full potential?

The colors of the walls are important for the energy in your room, but the floor colors also play a big role. A grey carpet discreetly underpins any wall color, but why not use the floor’s full potential by letting the carpet occupy the space on its own terms? A color isn’t just the combination of the pigments seen by the eye. In the course of the day a color will change character as different light sources of varying strength cast fleeting shadows on the large, unbroken expanse. You may already have discovered that light moves more softly across the floor than on the wall, where the light meets the colors more directly? The carpet’s tones are also part of nuanced interactions with the other coolers of your interior, and it’s all these interactions that define the room.

Colours for the floor must offer a degree of stability in the room because it’s where we set our feet. You have to trust them and feel secure when you enter the room.

– says Margrethe Odgaard, textile designer and colour alchemist

Poetry in the floorscape

Margrethe Odgaard works with colors from an overall sensory approach and believes that interiors created with the intention of nourishing the body and soul can have a noteworthy positive effect. Her ambition is for colors to stimulate energies and create atmosphere. When you step into a room, you’ll not necessarily pay attention to the colors. The important aspect is your physical experience of your presence in the room.

In her work with colors, Margrethe focuses on the importance of their competences. In developing the 56-colour palette, she therefore created a preponderance of social colors that complement and lift each other, as well as individual diva colors that stand out clearly and add vibrant dynamics to the setting. The generous number of mineral-inspired hues makes it possible to create an infinite number of combinations in which the colors relate and react very differently to each other – on the floor and in relation to the other materials used in modern architecture. With the ambition of creating poetry in the floorscape, Margrethe wants to communicate positive emotion you can take with you. This is an emotion that you cannot necessarily identify, but which nevertheless exists and nourishes you.

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