Julie Lansom designs in Ethereal colours

Bao lamp in Ethereal trend colours

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Julie Lansom designs using NCS Colour Trends 2025+

Discover how designer Julie Lansom incorporates the colours of trend direction Ethereal into her renowned 'Bao Lamp'. What is her inspiration? Take part of her project below.

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the project

Choosing the colours of Ethereal

I’ve chosen this palette from NCS Colour Trends 2025+ because I am very interested in the contrast between the bold orange and the softer, more delicate colours. There is also a metallic/futuristic aesthetic which makes me think of outer-space, the galaxy and beyond.

Explore Ethereal

My process began by choosing the yarns for the Bao lamp. Already having the colours decided, I used NCS A5 colour samples to get a right colour match. For me, the deep orange NCS S 0560-Y70R reflects the sun setting on the horizon, warming up the sky.

I knew I wanted to use it as the main colour of my Bao lamp to embody this beautiful star. My other two colour choices for the lamp was the warmer pink NCS S 1010-R10B, and the lighter NCS S 0510-R50B.

Design process

The design process begins with colour matching the yarn for the right Ethereal colours. All Bao Lamps are handwoven by me in my workshop in Marseille, and they are made of steel and french cotton thread.

Bao Lamp

The Ethereal palette

Once the lamp was woven, I could integrate it to my moodboard on NCS+ and work on the set design which included the remaining three colours of the palette.

For the styling, I wanted to recreate the ethereal atmosphere of the palette using the light and cold celestial blue for the background and the grey and purple for the objects, floating like absurd planets around this big orange sphere.

My intentions for the final result were to be airy, dreamy and to give you peace of mind. To have a little bit of a psychedelic vibe whilst taking you to a meditative state. This is a remedy to anxiety.

I loved working with NCS because I am absolutely obsessed with colours – and there is no better tool than the NCS System for that. And the features offered in NCS+ are perfect to imagine and visualise the whole project.