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ColorTherapy: Christmas Red

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Name: Amalfi Red IB60, Stadium Red TH42
Brand: Ralph Lauren

This Christmas Id like to continue quoting the endlessly quotable Diana Vreeland:

"All my life Ive pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. Its exactly as if Id said I want Rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist templethey have no idea what Im talking about."

For her own Park Avenue apartment she had Billy Baldwin design a living room from crown to toe in scarlet, replete with red lacquer and fleurs du mal wallpaper. I think I have two red dining rooms that might meet with her approval. Both remind me of the deep color of holly berries.

 
 

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The first image shows Amalfi Red. Though Ive been to the Amalfi Coast, Im not exactly sure what Mr. Lauren means in naming this color, and as always, he excels at nomenclature. To my eye this is as blue as red can go before it becomes magenta. The second color is Stadium Red. Its thicker and bloodlike, theres nothing vermillion about it, and its effect is very patrician.

I love red in a dining room. It stimulates the senses and provokes conversation. Red also connotes food items: wine, steak, cherries, tomato sauce. It makes me hungry just thinking about it.

- Mark Chamberlain, interior and decorative painter


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Super! - I have my kitchen painted pillar box red and its smashing - its the third kitchen I've done in this colour - I used to have the living room this colour too - it always feels warm and friendly to come home to

posted by Violetsrose on 2006-12-20 07:00:05