Only a few months after making a large part of their range available in white, Bang & Olufsen have announced a similar number of products will be available with a gold-coloured finish.

Gold products are made to special order (meaning a longer lead time) and will be priced at a premium, we estimate 10-15%.

Although not to everyone’s taste, there’s no denying that the deep black of the LCD/plasma screens and loudspeaker cloths contrast well with the gold of the cabinets. To keep the colour palette to a minimum, the gold colouring even extends to the stands for televisions such as the BeoVision 7 and the bases of the BeoLab 6000 speakers. This is a wise choice because the standard silver stands which work well with the current range of colours would not go well with gold.

Televisions available in gold are: BeoVision 4-50 and 4-65, BeoVision 7-32 and 7-40 and BeoVision 9. Speakers with a gold finish are BeoLab 6000, BeoLab 8000 and the entire BeoLab 7 range (7-1, 7-2 and 7-4). Both remote controls (Beo 4 and Beo 5) can be ordered in gold and surprisingly only one music system: BeoSound 1.

A PDF format brochure showing the products in the dramatic setting of the Zaha Hadid building at Ordrupgaard is available for download here. As far as we know a printed version is not available but B&O really should start putting brochures like this into print as they show the products off so much better than the current catalogues.