The New Hollywood Regency
11/13/2008Last night in my colour class, I was having a conversation about interior design styles and one of my students pointed out an image in a magazine of an upholstered headboard in a graphic pattern and I said, “That’s very Kelly Wearstler” who is the queen of hollywood glam and drama. Not everyone knew who she…
Clean vs. Dirty Colours
11/09/2008Recently, my sister Elizabeth and I went to the Spaghetti Factory for lunch. Of course it’s always easy to be a critic and I was looking around at the colours (like I always do) and noticed that the yellow was sooooo wrong in this restaurant. There’s the rusty red woodwork and doors, dark green ceilings…
Colour, fundamentally, can only be described in three ways, it’s always either: Light or Dark, Clean or Dirty, Cool or Warm, period. And, it’s the clean/dirty shift that causes the most disharmony in a space, it mostly doesn’t work which is what I also teach my students. One of my other students was recently in…
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