Finnish design brand Feathr, the Home of Artisan Wallpaper, today announces the launch of the first wallpaper collection designed specifically to encourage wellbeing. The Essence Wallpaper collection has been developed in partnership with colour psychology and features eleven tonal colour schemes, each created to engender and arouse particular mood states.
Finland is famed for being the happiest country in the world: the Essence wallpaper collection aims to use colour to spread some of that contentment around the world. Colour is proven to affect mood. Research from Durham University demonstrated that the colour red improves competitiveness, whilst a study from the Mid-Sweden University found the effect of blue light to be similar to caffeine. Inspired by insights such as these, the designs in the Essence collection employ a core colour to target a particular mood state.
Each of the Essence wallpapers features a subtle ombre effect, with the focus colour seguing into a complementary shade: encouraging a smooth flow into a new mood state, whilst also offering interior designers a progressive colour palette around which to design. Eleven different colour combinations feature in the Essence collection including:
Essence Energise – a yellow & white ombre wallpaper
Essence Energize features a vibrant yellow colour block gently segueing into a soft toned white. Yellow is an energizing and motivating colour associated with mood enhancement, extroversion and optimism. Essence Energise provides you with an uplifting burst of energy, but does not overwhelm as it’s tempered by the gentle dissolve into white.
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Essence Joy – a teal & pink ombre wallpaper
In Essence Joy a fresh teal colour block segues into a peach pink. Teal is associated with optimism and spirirtuality, whereas pink emotes feelings of happiness and creativity. Essence Joy brings the two colours together to create an uplifting release of positivity.
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Essence Serene – a blue & white ombre wallpaper
Essence Serene features a light powder blue colour block segueing into shades of light grey and warm white. Blue can emote feelings of calmness, improve focus and even increase productivity, making it the ideal colour for an active environment. Essence Serene is calm, cool and reserved: we’d recommend this blue ombre wallpaper as home office wallpaper, or to complement an industrial interior design scheme.
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Essence Relax – a brown & cream ombre wallpaper
In Essence Relax a soothing taupe brown colour block that segues into a soft cream. The use of sophisticated taupe brown emotes feelings of warmth, comfort, security and reliability, whilst the cream introduces an airiness that encourages deep breathing. Essence Relax is the perfect mood wallpaper for a calming space, whether used as a bedroom wallpaper or as a hallway wallpaper to ground the entrance to your home.
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Essence Create – a pink & blue ombre wallpaper
In Essence Create an icy blue colour block dissolves gently into a dusky pink top. Blue is associated with calmness and serenity and encourages increased productivity, whereas pink emotes feelings of joy and creativity. By combining these two colours, Essence Create centres and focuses you, whilst unleashing your creative spirit.
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Essence Revive – a green & cream ombre wallpaper
In Essence Revive, a sage green colour block dissolving into a classic soft cream shade. Green motivates and creates optimism, with strong associations with good health and natural energy. Essence Revive harnesses these associations in its dusky sage tones, providing the perfect wallpaper to gently bring you back to your best.
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Essence Restful – a cream & white ombre wallpaper
Essence Restful a calming light tan taupe colour block that segues into a soft white. Essence Restful creates its mood from lighter shades on the brown colour spectrum, which emote feelings of calmness and security, mixed with subtle hints of reds and yellows that encourage joy and happiness.
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Essence Bliss – a purple & white ombre wallpaper
Essence Bliss features a soft lilac colour block that dissolves gently into a toned white top. Lilac is a rare colour in nature and is strongly associated with creating feelings of spirituality and imagination. By segueing gently into a tone white, Essence Bliss opens your spirituality up and lifts you to a state of bliss.
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Essence Passion – a red & pink ombre wallpaper
Essence Passion features a dramatic cherry red colour block dissolving into a soft pink. Red is the colour of excitement and energy, whilst also being associated with a competitive edge, and the deep cherry red tone of this ombre wallpaper has been designed to emote feelings of passion.
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Essence Focus – a blue & grey ombre wallpaper
In Essence Focus a formal blue dissolves into a classic soft grey. Blue is associated with calmness and serenity and encourages increased productivity and accuracy, whilst grey emotes feelings of stillness and calm. Essence Focus centres you and reduces the impact of external distractions.
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Essence Harmony – a brown & blue ombre wallpaper
Essence Harmony features a taupe brown colour block segueing into a powder blue. Brown represents warmth, comfort and security whilst blue introduces calmness and serenity. Together, brown and blue reflect the harmonious balance between the elements of earth and water. Essence Harmony is created from this elemental relationship, emoting feelings of certainty, balance and calm.
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The Essence wellbeing wallpaper collection is available exclusively from Feathr on their Wellbeing Wallpaper page. The collection starts from £99/119€/$129 per 50cm x 10m rolls, including free worldwide delivery. Each wallpaper is available on a range of materials, include Feathr’s Easy-Hang wallpaper, Peel and Stick self-adhesive wallpaper and Heavy Vinyl wallpaper that’s suitable for high traffic commercial environments.