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and old favorite of mine, though I'm not sure it would translate in New York light

As a color for decorating, it's not one I'd choose since green is mot my bag color wise, I do conceed that it does have it's uses, but more as an accent than as a primary color.

One combination I kind of liked was the dark green, aka forest green and paired it with the sea foam, a combo often used in the 50's.

Now a chartreuse with a robin's egg blue or turquoise is a fun combo that I like a lot and chartreuse has more yellow to it which makes it work for me more than most other shades of green.

I think the lesson here is not just the color used, but how it is used and with what other colors it is paired...the large pict at the top has a subtle dynamic between the seafoam green and pale blue but then punctuated by the hits of gold that liven up the whole space and pick up on the parquee flooring color!
In the next example the almost pinky orange tone is the perfect compliment to the soft blue and all set against a soft green backdrop!!
a room done in just seafoam green and white might be very sterile and cold but don't be afraid to add a little something something to liven it up!!

Am I the only one here seeing this as a sort of powder/delft blue?

There's a little green in some of the paintings - is that what we're talking about here?

Or, um, wait -- are we talking about the background color in the top picture, the one the panel paintings are set against? My work computer read that as "white", and only after staring at the photos for a good long while did I see it as anything other than cream/off white on my home monitor.

Interesting, as I'm considering a vaguely celadon shade in my living room, and what I want is something that will read "white" to the eye, but hint at something more complex.

Thanks for posting this, Maxwell. All those pale, murky 18th Century greens & blues can look really dirty used against white or clean pastels, but like you say, they take on a lot of richness when used with other similar colors. Context is everything. My own favorite historic green is still the slightly darker shade used up the street in the Tesse Room at the Met. Of course, lots of gold leaf slathered all over the place never hurt anything, either.

Magnaverde.

Maybe the color is not the "same" without the smell of mold?

I love this color! Although it looks to me like the matches you point out on the Ralph Lauren web page are much darker than what we're looking at in the first photo.

I painted my kitchen "celadon" (looks almost exactly like the walls in the first photo) with white trim and the cabinets a soft buttercream yellow. One of the things I like about this color is that it seems to agree with almost any color accessories, giving me a lot more leeway than the very dark red the kitchen used to be.

My experience with the white trim is that it went from looking dingy against the dark red, to clean and shiny white against the soft green.

Opoponax, it definitely looks like a soft green to me and I've looked at it on two different monitors.

P.S. I never cared much for green in decorating before, but this color is the one that won me over to start using it.