Design · 5 min read · 29 July 2026
Inside the colour lab
Why our pastel colourways take eleven coats and a week in the sun.
Every Hushwave colourway starts as a paper swatch pinned to the studio wall for a month. Colours that still feel right after four weeks go into testing.
The shells are coated in thin layers, then left under UV lamps for a week to check they will not yellow. Pearl took eleven attempts.
The glow you see behind each pair on this site is matched to the shell, so the screen feels like the room you would hear it in.
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