Color Works: Palette to Product is a color application guide that highlights how Color isn’t just visual – it’s emotional. This guide explores the importance of color and relevant material introductions to meet real needs, featuring spaces for focus, collaboration and transition.
Color Works: Palette to Product
Resources
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We’ve created several touchpoints to connect our beautiful material palettes to applications so that you see the inspiration coming to life.
We have five color themes, each designed to evoke emotion, inspire creativity and guide application across diverse environments. Together, they form a harmonious story of color grounded in nature, emotion and design versatility.
Digital Resources
Surface Materials Inspiration Guide (PDF)
Storytelling & Display Guide (PDF)
New & Notable Card Deck Instructions (PDF)
Physical Marketing Materials Orderable from Steelcase Marketing Resources
Grounding Neutrals
Sunbaked Layers
Twilight Tones
Rooted in Nature
Peaceful Energy
Sustainable Materiality
- Biobased Material
- Choose + Use Materials Responsibly
- New Black
- Textured Industrial Laminates
- Paint With Purpose
Biobased Material
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Ethos by Designtex is a biobased polymer made through the fermentation of domestically sourced non-food corn biomass. By incorporating third-party verified biobased content, Ethos takes the next step in sustainability, without compromising durability or material health.
Choose + Use Materials Responsibly
Choose + Use Materials Responsibly
We choose and use materials responsibly by sourcing and selecting materials that are healthier for people and the planet, and managing resources such as water and energy wisely.
For more Sustainable Materiality Stories, click here (slide 29).
New Black
New Black
The boucle yarns bring a warm, comfortable, and humanizing aesthetic to the office environment. To create these textiles, panel fabric scraps from the Steelcase production process are respun into black thread. Paired with white recycled polyester thread, New Black is made of 100% recycled material and powers a strong circular economy story.
Textured Industrial Laminates
Textured Industrial Laminates
To continue our efforts toward more sustainable materials – the reclaimed finishes tell a unique story of sustainability. The production process uses small fragments of post-production solid color paper that would otherwise have gone to waste. Paper chips are re-used to create a new paper sheet that is 30% reclaimed material. This paper technique uses small-batch craft production so that each sheet is unique and natural.
Paint With Purpose
Paint With Purpose
Working with one of our paint suppliers, Steelcase is reclaiming powder coat paint and eliminating 97,000 pounds of paint waste annually – a total landfill reduction of 91%.
By adding 2% black powder coat to our powder coat waste, we are able to reuse the new paint formulation on Steelcase Answer junctions, without causing any visual change.
New Materials
SOFTNEXT
Meet our new, multi-use collection called SoftNext. SoftNext is 100% post-consumer recycled polyester. This textile can be used across a range of products including both seating and vertical applications. SoftNext is a new price grade 2 textile that is both visually soft and soft to the touch. It provides subtle color mixing with a beautiful heathered texture and matte finish.
Cafe
Café leather is a new standard leather available in seven colors. It features a two-tone color design and offers a rich color palette. It’s warm and inviting visual provides an updated range of choice within our Standard Leather offering. Café is a price grade leather 1 and is available across seating applications.
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Warm Laminates
As we continue to intentionally warm up our palette, we are introducing two new laminates with matching edge band that complement our new paints. Additionally, we are bringing back our Warm White Laminate with a matching edge band. By pairing our Mocha paint with Satin Mocha laminate, we are able to offer a fourth, warm monochromatic color scheme.
Material Cleanability
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All Steelcase standard soft surfaces can be cleaned with a simple 4-step process.
SOFT SURFACES
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All Steelcase standard hard surfaces can be disinfected with one of 5 EPA-approved, commonly available sprays.
HARD SURFACESOur Material Offerings: Standard, Select and Custom
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Our standard portfolio features innovative, sustainable materials designed by Steelcase to suit any setting.
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Select Surfaces
Steelcase’s graded-in program offers a curated collection of custom materials from top industry suppliers.These materials have been pre-priced and pre-tested for use on Steelcase products. Graded-in Fabrics have varying lead times and are warranted differently by each supplier.
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Custom Surfaces
Our Custom Surfaces program can support nearly any material, including fabric, vinyl, leather, laminate, paint and stain. These materials have varying lead times and are warranted differently by each supplier.
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Designtex
Steelcase purchased Designtex in 1988, and in the three decades since, our companies have collaborated on some of the most innovative textiles and wallcoverings on the market.
To learn more about Designtex, click here.