Is pattern-phobia a thing? For what seems like years, many workplace designers have avoided the use of pattern, instead retreating to the safety of minimal finishes. Now, however, we are beginning to experience a shift. Interior designers are exploring pattern more and discovering new and exciting ways to use it.

From floor coverings to furnishing fabrics and wallcoverings to screening, we are seeing a strong and growing trend for pattern. Applied to commercial interiors, pattern can have a powerful and positive impact, particularly for the workplace. Read on to learn about the many different ways that pattern can be used to enhance workplace interiors.

Like silent architects, patterns are not just repetitive designs but powerful forces that can drive transformation, innovation and meaning across multiple areas of our lives.  Read on as we dive into the fascinating world of pattern, understanding how they shape everything, from the structure of nature to business, science, art and the very rhythms of our existence.

The use of pattern in architecture and design is experiencing a resurgence. From external architectural facades to interior furnishings and finishes, this revival has sparked new interest in the profound effects that patterns can have on the way we feel.  In this blog, we explore the fascinating relationship between patterns and our emotions and how, whether consciously or subconsciously, they can influence our psychological state.

If you missed this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week 2024 – fear not, we’ve pulled together our top five special moments and takeaways from an eventful three days of talks, workshops and tours. Milliken’s Berry Street Showroom was a celebration of colour, pattern and floral abundance as we welcomed hundreds of people through the doors to experience the launch of Milliken’s latest carpet tile and plank collections. With colourful insights and inspirational pattern, the packed programme was designed to stimulate all the senses.

Tracing Landscapes, originally launched in 2018, has proved to be one of Milliken’s most popular carpet tile collections. Leap forward 6 years’ and so much has changed in the world of work and colour trends that Milliken’s design and marketing team decided to take a fresh look at the collection and relaunch it with a new palette of colours.

Painted Garden is a British designed and made carpet plank collection. Milliken’s in-house design team took as their starting point elements of the art and nature to create a delicate imaginative  result.

Millitron® patterning technology has been evolving since it was first engineered over 50 years ago and revolutionised the world of commercial flooring. Today, the patented carpet design system is a high-tech, digital colour placement process which, in its latest incarnation, is opening up exciting new possibilities for Milliken’s global design team.

Making the office a place where people really want to be can prove challenging for many employers in today's hybrid-working landscape. Creating a physical environment where they feel stimulated, will thrive, feel mentally positive and consistently productive can go a long way to achieving this.

As the V&A prepares to close its doors and the last of its visitors hold their golden tickets to catch the final dates, the Christian Dior – Design of Dreams exhibition must have been its most successful exhibition to date. Standing alongside the Alexander McQueen – Savage Beauty exhibition of 2015, it marks the public’s obsession with fashion, history, brands and the snowball effect of our must-see culture.