2024 Commercial Trend: New Retro
New Retro
New Retro provides users the opportunity to form meaningful and nostalgic connections with the past while embracing the future.
Designers are encouraged to create an inter-era language within the spaces they design. Selecting meaningful vintage and retro pieces and pairing them with the ultra-modern for a unique and personalised take on retro.
This trend isn’t just a copy-paste of the 60s and 70s. New Retro combines the new and old for a more modern take on vintage. Think vintage colour palettes with a more minimalist paired-back interiors, modern fixtures and art pieces paired with cleaner whites and blacks for contrast.
Retro is back! Pinterest reports a 40% increase in searches for “retro pink kitchens.”
Colour and Styling Considerations
Minimalism
The retro aesthetic is often associated with a dense layering of colour, pattern and texture. New Retro brings the colour palettes, patterns and textures of the 60s and 70s, but pairs it right back, taking a sleeker, more minimalist approach. Designers should select meaningful feature pieces that wow but allow enough contrasting space for those design elements to breathe.
Retro Colour
There’s nothing new about the colour palette of New Retro. It remains as retro as retro gets. Lean on the greens, browns and burnt oranges of past, or embrace the more playful psychedelic palettes but pair with cleaner whites and blacks for contrast.
Old and New
Designers are encouraged to create an inter-era language within the new spaces they design. Select meaningful vintage and retro pieces and pair them with the ultra-modern element to create spaces that both wow and leave users feeling comforted by the nostalgic nod to the past.
