Adored by the culinary-inclined and widely recognized even by those who don't spend much time in front of a stove, Le Creuset's enameled cast-iron kitchenware is cast individually in sand molds and then hand-inspected by French Artisans. This cast-iron ombre collection makes for a beautiful presentation on your stove, on your countertop, or in your cabinets.
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Cadrys Contract is an Australian design company offering bold soft flooring solutions that are highly customizable. Their ombré collection is a series of rug designs that play on the ombré effect while also incorporating other geometric elements. The carpets are indulgently soft, made from hand-spun wool combined with viscose. Any design within the collection can be custom-colored and made to the client's size requirements. Clients may even alter the design if they have a different vision for it!
Artist Fernando Mastrangelo uses commonplace materials – such as salt, coffee, sand, glass and cement – to cast sculptural objects that apply an artist's vision to physical design, amalgamating commodity materials and pure geometric form, creating an intriguing contradiction. The made-to-order "Drift" bench is cast from hand-dyed sand and cement. The nuanced blue tones, juxtaposed with the rock-like formation seat, is evocative of a Patagonian mountainscape.
Billie Ombré, Artistic Tile's Jazz Glass mosaic, is an ode to legendary jazz musician Billie Holiday. Billie Ombré traces Holiday’s trademark melodic vocalizations along a wave of vibrant colored glass, creating an overall ombré effect. Select from blue or grey gloss ombres for a backsplash or feature wall, or incorporate the solid grey or white extender pieces for a variety of thematic variations.
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Ombré, French for "shaded," is the gradual blending of one color hue to darker or lighter shades across a surface. The effect has been incorporated into fashion at least as far back as the late 1800s, when it was achieved in fabric printing with a rainbowed block. As technology advanced, textile workers achieved a more sophisticated ombré effect by dying threads in graded colors, then machine embroidering them. Ombré remained a popular feature in clothing fashion throughout the 19th century.
In the late 20th century, Ombré took off as a hair color trend that is still going strong nearly 2 decades later. Perhaps for good reason - the Ombré effect is visually intriguing: subtle differences in tone mimic natural gradations seen throughout our environment; the sky at sunrise or sunset, the spill of light as it traces the line of a shaped object, rays of light penetrating the ocean surface and falling off into the blue depths. Ombre's subtle differences in tone are deeply satisfying: they mobilize the astounding ability of the human eye to perceive millions of colors and shade variations.
The prevalence of ombré hairstyles has inspired the spread of the technique to other aesthetic mediums, such as nail art, makeup, graphic design, and interior design. The following are a selection of truly artistic home goods and decor pieces that are sure to help you get your ombré fix.
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