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Designing For The Future: A Clockwork Orange
ColorTherapy In Film

I first saw Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange when I was in high school and found it to be extremely subversive and most enjoyably provocative then — and have seen it in eight-year interv...

A Riff on Harold and the Purple Crayon
ColorTherapy

PAINTS USED Fine Paints of Europe H00110, Farrow & Ball Clunch 2009 Whereas Harold had a purple crayon with which to design and demarcate the world according to his whims, I’m actually doing...

Simulated Wallpaper: A Damask, In Paint
ColorTherapy

One way to get the raised weave in a simulated silk damask wallpaper is to vary the finishes of your paints. File this under Flowers. The base coat is Clunch from Farrow&Ball in matte — a reli...

Even More Zigzag Chevron Stripes
ColorTherapy

As you may recall, I had Flame-Stitch Fever last spring, and painted zigzags large and small everywhere I went. Well, you can never get sick of a good thing, and I’m continuing along my merry way...

How Often Do I Need to Repaint My Apartment?
ColorTherapy

Good question! Here’s one for the archives, and the answer depends on many things. Do you have children or animals — those twin enemies of beauty/essences of beauty, depending on the day? I...

In the Spirit of Matisse: A Reader's "Red Studio"
ColorTherapy

This just in over the transom: reader Randall found my Matisse post in archive and sent me his own red studio, eager to share. Thrilled, I wrote back for further info and picked up the corresponden...

Green Inspiration from Painter Milton Avery
ColorTherapy

I happened across a gallery exhibition of paintings by Milton Avery over the weekend — a favorite of mine in my halcyon days of art school — and I thought a quick discussion of his work ...

Striped & Colorful Textiles: Les Toiles du Soleil
ColorTherapy

I wish I’d discovered Les Toiles du Soleil at the top of the summer as these delightful colors and patterns just scream "sun and surf." If I had deck chairs — let alone a deck — I’d...

Inspired by Matisse: Plum Red
ColorTherapy

Name: Plum Raison 2082-20, Raisin torte 2083-10 Brand: Benjamin Moore I discovered Matisse's The Red Studio at the Museum of Modern Art last summer, and found it to be completely captivating. It a...

The Best Off-White Paint
ColorTherapy

It's been said that the human eye can perceive an average of 3 million colors, with some highly sensitive or artistic types able to detect 7 million. Yet, I've noticed over the years that every dec...

Classic Gray Paint: Coastal Fog by Benjamin Moore
ColorTherapy

Name: Coastal Fog AC-1 Brand: Benjamin Moore Why would anyone with a color column write so frequently about grey? I think it's important to point out the subtle beauty of a seemingly random neutral...

Classic Gray Paint: Silver Fox by Benjamin Moore
ColorTherapy

Name: Silver Fox 2108-50 Brand: Benjamin Moore Close friends of mine have a brownstone in Brooklyn — they are both artists unafraid to be decoratively daring, and have invested every room in ...

ColorTherapy: Indian Rhubarb

Name: Indian Rhubarb NA63 Brand: Ralph Lauren My photo shoot last night for an aplomb Plum was a bust so here’s a archives — this is Indian Rhubarb, a nice full grey with a touch of green...

ColorTherapy in Film: Plein Soleil / Purple Noon

I have a few notes on the film Purple Noon, after a tip from a reader on my Samouraï post. I hadn’t seen in it in years and much prefer it to the American counterpart, The Talented Mr. Ripley...

ColorTherapy: Michelangelo’s Color Palette

The Torment of Saint Anthony, Michelangelo A rare treat was recently unveiled at the Met — a painting ascribed to Michelangelo and one of only four known to be of his hand. According to The N...

ColorTherapy: Stripes in the Suburbs!

PAINTS Benjamin Moore Cream Soda 1082; Ralph Lauren Morning Walk VM58, Dewdrop Pink RM03 & Faded Peony RM01 After flipping through my portfolio last winter, my saintly mother declared that she was ...

ColorTherapy: Haus Interior

There’s a smart new shop that just opened in NoLita, and for which I was in charge of decorative painting. I had hoped to scoop this one for myself, but the media blitzkrieg was so instantaneous ...

ColorTherapy: I Love Lucy

Paint Names: Ralph Lauren Loft Living UL41, Bardsley Grey RM30, Fine Paints of Europe H00750 A few months ago someone posted a comment on my Zig Zag column that it reminded her of the Lucy episode ...

ColorTherapy: Simple Painting Projects

Color Name: Sweet Pear 389 Brand: Benjamin Moore For a simple summer weekend project to color your world, why don’t you try one of these simple painting projects ? In this beach-side house, colo...

ColorTherapy: The Standard Hotel & The Highline

To All ColorTherapy Posts I see by yesterday’s news that the new Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District has won a MASterwork Award from the Municipal Art Society for excellence in urban archit...

ColorTherapy: "Dear ColorTherapy..."

To All ColorTherapy Posts Name: Modern Loft Brand: Ralph Lauren UL32 “I live in a small bright white alcove studio and want to paint it dark — blue, dark teal, charcoal — but my frie...

ColorTherapy: The Worst Colors For Interiors

To All ColorTherapy Posts I walked past a storefront dentist office in Brooklyn last week, which was painted bright pink. Not coral, not dusty rose, not salmon; but bright, bubble gum, Peptol Bismol...

Finnish Design at MPD Design 09

As design month here in New York builds momentum, I stopped into the Meatpacking District for MPD Design 09, hoping to find something colorful to write about. Designers from Finland were featured t...

ColorTherapy: Kip's Bay Decorator Show House

I poked my head into the 37th annual Kip's Bay Decorator Show House — for starters, the site this year is the much talked-about former home of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, on the market for a ...

ColorTherapy in Film: Le Samouraï

click thumbnails for larger pics It’s been years since I first saw this film in re-release, and I’m a sucker for all things Alain Delon, so when I caught a few moments of Le Samouraï at a lo...

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