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There was such an interesting volley of posts in response to my recent column on Master Room that I wondered if I could further provoke the argument by showing the kitchen next to it. Call this “Color in Context.”...

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While yet again playing hooky on the Upper East Side, I recently found myself at Rococo—The Continuing Curve at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. What got me going on this occasion was the unmistakable color of Sèvres porcelain, and the question of where that came from. But let’s back track a bit.

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Name: Master Room
Brand: Ralph Lauren VM99

For some reason, these dark, green-grey colors are in the ether lately, and I never get tired of them. In this instance in particular they offer one reason to dispense with the notion that Super-White is the only color in which to display paintings or works of art...

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Name: Cucumber Salad
Brand: Benjamin Moore 562

Long-time readers of this column will know that I don’t like green at all unless I love it, and even then my favorite greens are usually blue, mustard, grey or olive. Much to my surprise, here’s a green I was startled to become suddenly quite smitten with…

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Last week, I was grumpily dispatched to Aronson’s Floor Covering on a bit of nonsense, which quickly turned into a meeting with good fortune. Therein, I was reacquainted with the KT paint line and a year-old desire to write about the Villa Savoye outside of Paris…

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Name: Blue Gray 91, Gervases Yellow 72
Brand: Farrow & Ball

I have something to share this week that is slightly unusual for two reasons: I’m writing about a country house upstate instead of an apartment, and (at last!) I have more than one photo of the same color…

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Name: Elemental AF-400, Thicket AF-405, Agave AF-420.
Brand: Benjamin Moore Affinity Line

Sex in the City opens this week, and since Sex is in the air, I thought I’d dive into a color & sex subject that I've been wondering about for years....

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The International Contemporary Furniture Fair is back in town, so let’s forget about paint this week and talk about other things, especially wallpaper...

Okumaura Masanobu, "Large Perspective Picture of a Second-floor Parlor in the New Yoshiwara, Looking Toward the Embankment," ca. 1745
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I love tripping over unexpected sources of inspiration. My latest was Designed For Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings at the Asia Society…

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I began watching Ruthless People to find the image of a red, blue and yellow chair that existed in my mind as a distant memory. What I found instead was an explosion of grids, triangles, squiggles, turquoise and black ca. 1985 that burst off the screen. What a hoot…

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Name: Spring, UL52
Brand: Ralph Lauren

Feng Shui informs us that good color for a bathroom would either be water colors or wood colors, to match or support the water element. Well, I sometimes get so sick of powder blue I could wretch, so this week let’s look at two more colors from my arsenal of dark colors…