Meet Tranquil Dawn


Te paint gurus have chosen a soothing pale green as their new star shade. Gabrielle Fagan reveals the inspiration behind the hue and how to use it.


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Tere’s always a buzz in the interiors world, when Dulux’s eagerly-awaited new Colour of the Year is announced. Now, the paint gurus have revealed their chosen hue for 2020 - the lyrically named ‘Tranquil Dawn’, a cool, hazy tone of green. “A new decade heralds a new dawn, and the hazy pale green tones of Tranquil Dawn are calming and comforting, just when we need it most in our lives,” enthuses Marianne Shillingford, Dulux creative director. And a lot of thought goes into choosing which shade gets the title, as it’s a question of timing as well as aesthetics. “Tis is a colour palette for wellbeing, which we very much need in our troubled, uncertain times,” Shillingford adds. “When we’re unsettled, we long to return to


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the familiar, and that’s embodied by nature-inspired colours which don’t demand too much of us, and help us feel peaceful and soothed.”


SO WHAT EXACTLY IS TRANQUIL DAWN ALL ABOUT?


“Te new green palette is in tune with the interiors trend for strong green colours in the home, which has grown over the last couple of years,” explains Shillingford. “We’ve dialled down those deep greens and instead created a soſter, more gentle, smokier shade. Tis is a neutral colour which is easy to live with,” she adds. “It pays a nod to the elements of the natural landscape, and you could describe it as the colour of the space between the land and the sky.”


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