Bene Spectrum – XXL
After just under two years Bene has freshened up its selection of colours and materials, the Bene Spectrum, with new veneers and melamine surfaces along with extensive additions to the fabric collection. This universal and versatile colour and material system is ideally suited for designing modern offices."Colours are an expression of life’s changes and need to be continuously renewed."
The selection of colours and materials in the new Bene Spectrum reflects both tried and true ideas and new trends:
No to tropical veneers! - Bamboo sets the ecological standards
In recent years the hype about the tropical trees has resulted in a shortage on the market. There were hardly any tropical wood types to be found at the most important furniture fairs last year. Bene has already completely removed Macassar and Zebrano from their selection – not least for ecological reasons.
Instead, Bene is now offering something that is still unusual in office furniture in the European market: bamboo veneer. Bamboo is quick to grow back, does not ruin the ground and also makes an excellent construction material and even veneer. It’s as if bamboo was made for the office.
Walnut veneer now comes in more colours
In order to be able to continue offering an appropriate selection of high-quality veneers in the executive Filo, AL and P2 lines, Bene has expanded its spectrum with two new tones of walnut stain in addition to natural walnut. Umbra walnut and anthracite walnut are gentle tones of brown and grey that give the noble executive pieces an exclusive finish.
Colours from nature
Mustard yellow sets the tone – not only in the current autumn/winter fashion but also in the office. A warm mustard yellow can now be found in almost all of Bene’s fabric collections . The hype about blue inspired Bene’s colour experts and designers to include these trendy shades in the new fabric collections and to make the blue-green tone of cyan an accentual colour in the Bene collection – not just for textile, but also for the melamine surfaces. On the other hand, the warm grey tones are not a new trend but rather firmly established. So Bene has added another warm nuance of grey – in addition to clay – to the Bene Spectrum: the colour of lava. It is available as melamine and as the colour of varnish or fabric.
The fabric that PARCS is made of
Bene’s ever-growing seating collection, in particular the PARCS family, called for a more differentiated selection of fabrics. The new, comprehensive and well-coordinated selection now enables the desired diversity of design possibilities. In order to keep an orientation among this diversity of different colours, the designers of PARCS, PearsonLloyd, put together a combination helper consisting of about 45 selected colours: the "Fabric Inspirations". Because for a good combination of PARCS you usually need about three colours on fabrics, and ideally they should have different structures so they highlight the individual elements of furniture. For all those who prefer to choose from the "big picture," there are about 350 colours from 25 collections available.
Have fun designing!
Nicole Schemerl-Streben
