Soothing sound in the interior environment

Sound is especially critical, as acoustic quality has a direct impact on the way spaces affect human beings.

Hard planes and angled room volumes need to be countered with acoustic products to minimise reverberation, dampen volumes and reduce echoing. This ensures that even when a room is buzzing with activity, the ambience remains welcoming and effectively modulated.

Woven Image ensures that achieving effective acoustic solutions can enhance an interior design and architectural presence, through the creation of unique, aesthetically beautiful, high performance acoustic products. Their range includes panels, tiles, fabrics and hangings that can complement environments ranging from premium corporate office boardrooms to hotels, education, healthcare and retail.

The exceptional functional performance is merged with gorgeous colours and textures, creating compelling design-led products such as the Embossed Panel collection.

This versatile, dynamic range of tactile acoustic panels has aesthetic qualities that enable it to become a design-forward element within the interior scheme. The textured appearance of Nalu and Umi embossed acoustic panels, for example, makes them a striking addition to feature walls, partitions and other focal points in offices, lobbies, classrooms, foyers, consulting rooms, retail zones or dining areas.

The name ‘Umi’ comes from the Japanese word for sea, and the geometric ripples have a calming energy of the gentle lapping of a tide on the shoreline. The embossed front of the panel, which incorporates a coloured surface finish from the Mura fabrics range, is paired with a flat back for ease of installation on walls or ceilings.

‘Nalu’ also references the calming geometry of the ocean. Meaning ‘wave’ in the Hawaiian language, Nalu features an embossed front with sweeping, sculptural lines that draw the eye to trace the ripples across the panel. This mesmerising visual quality, which mirrors the patterns of water moving across sand.

Stringent environmental sustainability approaches are also embedded, with third-party credentials including Global GreenTag™ and the Living Future Institute’s Declare rating scheme.

At least 50% of the content in both Nalu and Umi embossed acoustic panels range is also sourced from recycled PET, and the panels themselves are fully recyclable. Environmental Product Declarations give project leads and specifiers confidence the products are also low in VOCs, further supporting protection of human health and wellbeing.

In keeping with the shift towards bringing nature within through biophilic patterns and colours, Woven Image are also introducing three new colourways for the stunning EchoPanel® collection that hint at life on land and the world beneath the sea.

Latte has an ochre sensibility that hints of the warmth of heritage brick, the allure of coffee and cocoa and the earthy richness of soil. It brings an opulent sense of style for diverse settings including hospitality and commercial interior feature walls.

Or to give indoor environments a flourish of green to soothe the senses and revive the mind, the colourway of Seaweed melds forest greens and onyx to hint at the serenity of rainforests, the calm allure of the ocean’s kelp realms and the dapple of light in a leafy garden.

For a feeling of expansion and mystery, Laguna brings the depths of the ocean or the far reaches of the twilight sky indoors, with a depth of sophistication that creates a soothing aura of timelessness.

Together the three new shades respond to the growing emphasis on enhancing wellbeing through supporting the senses of touch, sight and sound.