Heleen van Gent, one of the design experts who predicts the colour styles that influence how we decorate our homes.
Heleen van Gent (Violets)

Our colour development team

_Heleen van Gent_ Head of the Global Aesthetics Center I love dark blue-violet. It reminds me of my simple pleasures in life: blue jeans and the night sky full of stars.

Heleen van Gent, one of the design experts who predicts the colour styles that influence how we decorate our homes.
Heleen van Gent (Violets)

Heleen uses her passion for colour to help people make good colour choices for their homes, designing colour tools to help make those decisions easier. She also takes great pleasure every year in managing the creation of the AkzoNobel annual colour style predictions, Colour Futures.

Before joining the Global Aesthetics Center, Heleen was educated at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands and worked in the world of magazines for 20 years, as an interior stylist and design editor.

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