Cleanse Your Color Palette, Find Your Higher Design Truth
Ready to settle tough color design calls with the flip of a coin? Writer and design consultant Sara Ruffin Costello has found that decorators are creating “pale rooms, sucked free of distracting reds, blues, and yellows” and embracing a palette of black and white. Is it a trend, movement, or moment? In her article for The Wall Street Journal Online, “The Case Against Color: How pale décor can reveal your true self,” she shares her observations and some recent comments and books by noted designers.
Some highlights:
- Miles Redd, “the king of saturated hues,” recently created rooms in palest blonde and ice for a client and told Costello that “‘shape, texture, and paint finish’” became the strong cards for the design.
- Neo-traditional decorator Celerie Kemble gives all the reasons you could want for going color-free in her recent book, Black and White (and a Bit in Between). Costello describes thi
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The home of the Brazil’s President was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and opened in 1958. Its name comes from Juscelino Kubitschek, who asked ‘What is Brasília, if not the dawn of a new day for Brazil?’ The design is wonderful. But is it perfect? ‘No’. The space looks sterile, the planting is deeply unimaginative and it is difficult to think of anything one might do with the space – except gaze at it. 
