Amthal Karim – Head of Design at Furniture And Choice – shares her monthly overview of on-trend styles and interior looks currently inspiring furniture buyers.
Curves
The biophilic trend remains strong in 2025 — curves have become the hero of the design world. Whether it’s architecture, a curved sofa or accessories, customers are obsessed with soft, sinuous shapes that evoke cosiness and comfort.
Furniture retailers are finding every way possible to introduce curves into their sofa designs, from a wavy backrest to a curved seat, or a rounded chaise. Dining furniture is being transformed with oval tables, round pedestals and chairs with curvy silhouettes. The most desirable element of this trend is that a curve often elevates any piece of furniture to a chic, designer look.
Earth tones
It’s no surprise that Pantone announced Colour of the Year for 2025 as ‘Mocha Mousse’ – a calming, on-trend shade of brown. In the home interiors world, earth tones are gaining popularity for their grounding quality. Colours with muted, muddy undertones form a connection to natural elements and enhance our feelings of wellbeing within a space.
We’ve noticed shades of green become a mainstream choice with colours such as sage and forest green alongside more retro-inspired tones such as moss. Reds and burgundies are yet to be fully explored, but hints of this palette are beginning to emerge amongst sofa retailers.
Luxury upholstery
Luxury materials for sofas and dining chairs are predicted to be a stylish mainstay in 2025. Warm velvet colours such as beige, cream and mushroom combine perfectly with the trend for black accents to create a premium feel. Chenille and two-tone velvets are also trending. This contemporary take on monochrome and luxury living is less about traditional black and white and more about soft minimalism.
Black accents
Talking of monochrome — combined with the influence of Art Deco, the colour black continues to trend for 2025. We’ve noticed additional finishes for dining furniture emerging including matt black, black oak and black marble. A simple swap from chrome to black legs on a sofa has become the go-to upgrade in contemporary design detail.
Metallic details
We’ve established that quiet luxury is in vogue for the new year, so we’re expecting luxe details in furniture to become ever more popular. Dining tables are easy to accent with metallics — gold trim instantly enhances the curves of an oval table to highlight the biophilic shape. With dining chairs, the exposed frame look has become popular with metal detail adding graphic visual interest to the look of the chair. For sofas we’ve noticed features such as gold trim, metal inserts and metal bases come into play to give products a designer-led look.
It’s interesting to note that metallic and material details also unexpectedly featured in one of the most talked-about design developments of the year — the interior of the new Jaguar Type 00 car featuring brass inlay and even travertine stone.
