Designers’ Choice: New for 2025
Our Designers’ Choice patterns are expertly curated combinations, built from our Signature laying patterns and shaped by the creative vision of our in-house design team.
Packwood Stone and Stucco Roselle in Lune Small DC633 from Designers' Choice.
For 2025, our designers have created nine new Designers' Choice combinations that blend the emerging trends identified by the design team through extensive research to create a collection of striking designs, ready for you to specify with confidence.
Explore the new DC combinations, each of which have been created with the following three key trends in mind.
Nostalgic Reset
Celebrating a delicate balance of playfulness and maturity
The Nostalgic Reset trend draws inspiration from retro designs and the new Designers’ Choice combinations pay homage to vintage aesthetics and feature luxurious colours paired with fun patterns. This set of combinations feature warm and rich tones, bringing opulence to a space, whilst adding a touch of playfulness.
Check – DC630
Featuring Tay Oak, a beautiful rich and chocolatey wood with gorgeous tonal variation from Amtico Signature, this pattern exudes nostalgic luxury.
This combination injects character into any space with the use of one wood, it offers an understated finish but is still bursting with character.
It’s ideal for hospitality and leisure in environments such as hotel lounges and bars with its warm and inviting tones.
Add further opulence and elegance to a space by pairing with gold stripping.
The Nostalgic Reset patterns provide pattern combinations to help design sophisticated spaces with timeless colours and finishes that create an authentic connection and welcoming environments.
Restorative Spaces
Understated yet premium, with a foundation of luxury and calm.
Restorative Spaces is a trend that goes beyond the aesthetics; it’s about curating spaces that nurture both the body and the mind. These DC patterns support schemes which have been designed with wellness in mind and incorporates natural finishes.
There is an increasing awareness around the importance of peoples’ mental health, therefore designing spaces which incorporate elements of relaxation is very important. Biophilic additions to interiors are key here to achieve a restorative space, this may include indoor plants, natural lighting and biophilic materials.
Large Parquet – DC637
Combining five stones with complementary neutral tones and stripping as a grout feature, this DC design celebrates natural stone features and creates a subtle, calming design.
Commercially, it’s incredibly versatile. It is ideal for healthcare sectors and wellness environments such as spas. Its light, airy and opulent aesthetic would also work well in hotels and retail spaces, as well as office environments with a focus on wellness.
Soft Utilitarian
Sleek, functional, and beautiful spaces that embrace tactility, texture, and purposeful material combinations.
The Soft Utilitarian trend celebrates the harmony between the textures and tactility of the overall finish of a space. These DC pattern combinations have been developed to work seamlessly with their environments by drawing on existing architectural elements from textured rustic woods to burnished metals and concretes.
Gatsby Square Large – DC632
This pattern is an exciting new combination which mixes two different finishes: a wood and a metallic.
Featuring Darley Oak, which is a beautifully textured wood alongside Russet Burnished Metal, a metallic design with rusty tones, this pattern is ideal for industrial schemes.
It has versatile uses in commercial sectors, including hospitality and leisure as well as open-plan office environments. This design is perfect for zoning areas in large commercial spaces, and its bold geometric design creates visual impact.
These patterns beautifully combine a mix of finishes and textures, creating easy to specify flooring that work effortlessly with existing architectural elements such as an exposed brick wall or original iron features.
Over 100 Designers' Choice Combinations
It’s not just the new designs that follow the trends. Many existing patterns also meet the key themes, as identified by our design team.
