ColorTherapy: Beach Yellow

Name: Beach Yellow IB71
Brand: Ralph Lauren

How fun is this? A Pop-Art accent wall in shades of the 60's. I love this client for her quietly daring use of innovative design, and I wish I had other photos of the rest of the apartment to prove it...

One of my favorite things recently has been variations of the primary color triad, for example here: the teal blue lamp shade, scarlet table cloth and yellow wall. We nixed several yellows as too flabby, too orange, too too, before arriving at this—Beach Yellow. It’s got a dirty quality I find fascinating, almost like it’s green until it’s completely dry. In my humble opinion, if the wall were any warmer it would have been too rich. Neat. Textile by Marimekko.

- Mark Chamberlain, interior and decorative painter

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Comments (5)

That is a fantastic color...

posted by Jess2nola on February 19th 2008 at 6:32am
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Such a lovely burst of color. Makes me smile on this cold winter day. May I ask where the table is from? The wood cross beams are great!

posted by yanners on February 19th 2008 at 6:36am
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Love it! I think yellows are the hardest to use successfully as wall color so that makes this even more of a win.
This exact shade was a strong contender for my guest bath for a while.

posted by splatgirl on February 19th 2008 at 7:25am
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I love that lamp, great colour! Is that the one from ikea, sanella i think?

posted by designermomma on February 19th 2008 at 7:30am
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Designermomma -- seems to me the lamp shade is IKEA Kivsta and the base is IKEA Grundton or Januari

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40121849

posted by S. Elizabeth on April 8th 2008 at 7:10am
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