Interior design trends in 2024: the years top five styles

It started in the fashion industry with “dopamine dressing”. Now the trend that brought brightly coloured looks back to the high street is now transferring to living spaces. The mix of bold colours, patterns, shapes and textiles helps to create a life-affirming ambience and lift the mood inside the home.

Poolside from Bretz makes a colourful statement. The striking sofa looks like an inflatable mattress, employs a rounded, flowing design language and offers an impressive seat depth. The voluminous cushions look like air-filled chambers stacked on top of each other and the seat slopes gently backwards, drawing you even deeper into the sofa. Poolside is available in various brightly coloured velour fabrics – very much in keeping with the dopamine decor trend.

Whether round, oval or elliptical, in contrast to furniture with hard edges or sharp corners, organic forms radiate real softness. Furniture and home accessories incorporating curved designs are back in fashion and injecting new dynamism into our homes. Chairs and armchairs with organic contours can be found alongside wave-shaped tables and sofas with round armrests.
Nimbo embraces these characteristics. The armchair created by designer Lucie Koldova for Bielefelder Werkstätten is the archetype of a soft biomorphic structure. The sculptural design works with the tectonics of shapes to create a piece of indoor seating furniture that is both visually attractive and comfortable to sit on.

Genuine handmade pieces are a luxury. Hand-wattled, woven, shaped, filed, sanded or sculpted – handcrafted is in. And rightly so. The techniques of this kind of craftmanship, which sometimes require arduous work, produce unique pieces that stand the test of time and assume the position of treasured classics in the home.
One example of this trend is Ethnicraft’s PI collection. It honours nature’s design by keeping the strength, curves and lines as nature intended. Interesting shapes are created by the sleek, stylishly polished, imperfect finish. The sideboard in the PI collection is finished by hand to ensure that the wood’s individual character is respected.

Lamps were, are and always will be key interior design elements that turn a space into a real home. And they come in countless different models: ceiling lamps, pendant lights, chandeliers, floor lamps, table lamps – the list goes on.
But some lamps are true luminaries. Among them is Xio by Hollands Licht. The innovation in this lamp is the slimline LED. The special pattern ensures that the frameless surface is evenly illuminated. Xio is an elegant model with a timelessness that allows it to be seamlessly integrated into interiors.

Sustainability is more than just a trend – it is a business philosophy. In a time in which protecting the environment is becoming more and more important, growing numbers of people are looking for ways to make environmentally sound decisions in their daily lives – and when they are furnishing their homes, too.
The furniture industry is responding to this by introducing second life programmes. One of the pioneers in the industry is the German furniture manufacturer COR. A few years have already passed since it launched CORever, a repair service that gives old items of furniture a new lease of life in the company’s workshop. Seats are recovered, chair legs repaired, and sofas reupholstered. The restored items include the Nook sofa that COR recently displayed at its stand at imm cologne 2024.