Reinventing a classic | Mokum’s Vintage Deux

When recolouring our new and improved classic Vintage – re-released as Vintage Deux (French for ‘two’) – the studio not only refreshed the palette but also improved the construction, resulting in a softer handle and slightly matter surface.

Vintage Deux is woven in Italy in the Prato region by a boutique velvet mill. The sublimely soft viscose pile and cotton-polyester ground is finished with a light acrylic backing to the underside/reverse. This additional backing, commonly referenced as a ‘light PC backing’ strengthens the fabric by holding the pile more securely in place.

Available in 27 custom colours, Vintage Deux’s comprehensive palette hints at Mokum’s future direction. The Mokum design team love custom colouring velvet as it takes saturated colour so well, becoming ever more dynamic as the pile shifts in tone and depth of shade. Once upholstered, the light moves and reflects shadows across the shapes, lines, and curves of the furniture.

For the past decade, monochromatic, grey-based neutrals have saturated the market, but as people are seeking comforting colours within their homes there is a return to warmer, more nostalgic hues of parchment, cream, caramel, and chocolate.

The palette focuses heavily on green, known to vibrate a calming energy throughout interior spaces and bring the outdoors in. Vintage Deux has a mix of emerald and yellow-based greens with mineral tones, as well as teals, fresh sky blue, and classic ink.

As palettes become more bravely saturated – particularly suited to velvet – the Mokum studio has indulged in vibrant, optimistic tones. Incorporating the rich, warming, pigmented hues of golden yellow, sunbaked pink, peach, and terracotta.

Finally, a bold, orange-based geisha red and ebony black nod to the Japanese influence of the Ikigai collection which this classic velvet launched alongside.