Global Influence –
An interior trend brings faraway countries home
  • Global Influence is the name of one of the most influential interior trends of 2021. With its multitude of international influences and styles, it gives wanderlust a place in your home interior. Hardly surprising - after more than a year of restricted travel, it is seen as a design response to all of our longing to travel faraway and the desire for adventure.

    Warm colour schemes, soft textures, cultural artefacts and personal souvenirs are skilfully combined to create a unique, exotic comfort. Whether it is airy Mediterranean, sumptuous Southeast Asian or earthy African-style colours, Global Influence brings international flair into your own home.

    Since time immemorial, Meissen artisans have been inspired by distant countries - their cultures as well as flora and fauna. A versatile repertoire of shapes and decors that has grown over more than three centuries provides numerous unique objects for every design wish in the Global Influence style. A Mediterranean-style interior, for example, is characterised by light colouring and airy spaciousness. Together with maritime decors such as the sea motifs of "MEISSEN Blue Treasures", a sensual closeness to beach and sea is created.
"Let yourself be inspired by distant countries and bring exotic influences into your own interior."
  • The magnificent rooms in Southeast Asian style are different, guaranteeing a wow effect with symmetrical design, a bold colour scheme, colourful orchids and magnificent porcelain vases. If the journey is to take us to the tropics, it is brilliant colours, exotic animal and plant motifs as well as opulent precious metal accents that we encounter - pineapple tins and leaf bowls as well as hand-painted parrots, leopards and monkeys that find skilful expression in Meissen porcelain.

    With its earthy tones with a colour variety from brown to beige and the warm, natural textures, African style has a special place in the Global Influence trend. The striking safari look not only combines excellently with furniture and accessories made of wood, wickerwork and rattan, but with bold motifs from the animal world and African savannah it provides a fresh decor repertoire that combines adventure and cosiness. MEISSEN also picks up on African motifs in numerous objects and works.

    The "Big Five" by Maximilian Hagstotz show the eponymous "Big Five" - buffalo, lion, elephant, leopard and rhinoceros - as a unified group of figurines for the first time and also in the characteristic carving style inspired by African wooden sculptures. A graphic decor, inspired by traditional African patterns, gives the porcelain a graphic contrast and the figurines a fascinating symbolic power. With the "Animals from Africa" series of murals, Meissen porcelain painter Detlef Ritter created a pictorial homage to the continent and developed a detailed, expressive style that catches the eye and lets it wander over the mural. A statement piece that becomes an eye-catcher in any room. Wherever the design journey of our interiors takes us, with MEISSEN every interior shines in the splendour of modern opulence.