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Brand: Benjamin Moore
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I had another color epiphany on a recent trip to Puerto Vallarta. I’ve been traveling there for years, but have been looking at things anew since I started this column. Scales fell from my eyes...
Bugambilia is a bush with bright magenta flowers, and it’s everywhere. Mexico is vividly colorful, and you see color in the environment with midwinter sun, sea and flowering plants. It makes sense that nature is reflected in a cultural palette. The Huilchol people in particular use an explosive color language in their beadwork and textiles.
By the way, that’s Catrina in the first photo, after José Guadalupe Posada. Special thanks to my brother Scott for additional insights.
- Mark Chamberlain, interior and decorative painter
(ReEdited from 2007-02-13 - MC)
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In Metro Manila, Philippines, for a while the MMDA (the department in charge of roads and highways) chief, Bayani Fernando, had road signs and railings painted magenta/fuchsia pink (his wife's favorite color). It was a welcome splash of color against the city's usual grayish atmosphere.
Is "bugambilia" a local Mexican spelling? I thought that was spelled "bougainvillea?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainvillea
In Mexico this is the shade we call "Rosa Mexicano." I wonder if one of Ralph Lauren Paint "Island Brights" shades can match what you're looking for.
The bugambilia flower is the bougainvillea in Spanish.. thanks Google!
I would recommend checking out the work of Mexican architect Luis Barragán. His use of pink (and color in general) is amazing.
For starters:
http://designmuseum.org/media/item/3856/-1/1_4Lg.jpg
http://designmuseum.org/media/item/3858/-1/1_6Lg.jpg
http://designmuseum.org/media/item/3861/-1/1_9Lg.jpg
My parents painted the trim of their house with one of the Ralph Lauren colors and it looks pretty similiar. I don't have a good photo, but you can sort of get an idea...
Too light out:
http://www.saidalice.com/livejournal/mexicohouse2006.jpg
Too dark out:
http://www.saidalice.com/livejournal/mexicohouse.jpg
In spanish we call it Bugambilia.Bougainvillea is the scientific name.
Oooo, yes, Bryan.nyc! Luis Barragan! It was his use of bright blue that first amazed me. Which also brings us to Diego Rivera's blue house in Mexico, and so on. . . . I also love browsing Freida Kalo's published sketchbooks for similar color thrills.
You know, I have found it incredibly hard to find a pink paint that appropriately captures this hot fucshia color. I think the Ralph Lauren color mentioned by volanges is fun, but it isn't dark or deep enough. A few years ago I went through Home Depot, Loews, Duron, Benjamin Moore...I finally compromised on a Duron color that is a few shades too light. I have a Benjamin Moore color from the 2007 collection waiting to be tested...has anyone ever tried the much-ballyhooed paint-matching services offered these days?
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er, yeah
I'd go with "bouganvilla" or "bougainvillea" in the title . . .
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