Pantone’s colour of the year in 2006 was ‘Sand Dollar’, a sort of pinkish beige. It was chosen over ‘concern for the economy’, allegedly, and House Beautiful suggested it soothed the ...

You may be thinking white can do all this, and you’re not wrong. Beige has yet another trick up its sleeve though, which (quite literally) leaves white out in the cold: warmth. Post-2020, the desire ...