Possible Matches: Tear Drop Blue (BM 2053-60),Crystal Springs (BM 764), Prussian Blue (Ralph Lauren VM122), more below...
This is a companion piece to my French Bleu series (& part two) from last summer, and Ive been thinking about this ever since I posted my Butterfield-8 blue column a few weeks ago.
Im looking at a direct link that runs between the color blue shown here at Versailles and a fictional Fifth Avenue apartment. In both a regal effect is achieved. This color blue is cool, stately, rich and unobtrusive, the same as in our Butterfield-8 blue...
I remember this room as a sky blue, whereas Butterfield-8 blue runs to turquoise, though its hard to tell by the quality of my photo. But thats splitting hairs, as the net result is the same. And God is in the detailsnote the delicacy of the painting in the boiserie.
In this third photo, the base color is celadon, a sea-green color. Although we see this all the time in America, I found myself looking at this color with fresh eyes at Versailles. Again, the detail in the boiserie and the contrasts between the soft wall color, dark marble and heavy gilt frame made me think that specific choices were being made in designing this room, as opposed to a random lets not paint it too dark attitude.
King Louis had money to burn when this estate was built. Some of the rooms in this chteau are incredibly ornate and opulent; here something quieter was desired, yet the color choices are still specific and elegant. Yes, thats Marie Antoinette on the wall.
Possible color matches: Tear Drop Blue (BM 2053-60), Crystal Springs (BM 764), Prussian Blue (Ralph Lauren VM122); Celadon Green (BM 2028-60), Climbing Lily (Ralph Lauren VM101).
Photographed at the Petit Trianon, Versailles.
I think these rooms also benefit from extraordinary natural light, which gives those pale colors an elegance and shimmer you might not duplicate in a darker environment. Stunning.
Oh I'm so glad to see this, I was loving the walls in the Petit Trianon scenes in Marie Antoinette and I have such a hard time with blues...
The intricately carved wall paneling which lines most of Versailles is called boiserie. It's amazing and makes the other room look crude by comparison.
Ooh! Ooh! Question from the peanut gallery!!! My bedroom is painted something quite similar to Butterfield Blue and I have been flummoxed by the suggestion that you shouldn't mix cool and warm color families, yet these shades of blue are almost always pared with goldy-yellowy-tannish colors. I have only just started following this website and seem to be missing some sort of Design Lobe in my brain, so I would greatly appreciate an explanation.
mirroring a thoughtfull dinner party room.
(first image)
take..2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9
(second image)
vampire blue...not literal
(third perspective)
looks like zune.zoo n ipood to me, with texture of golf course.
Tailypo-Ditto-I don't get the warm/cool color rules. I didn't even know there were rules till I read this site. I realize now I use several cool colors and one warm color. Without the contrast, I don't know how I would get the room to pop. I would like a primer too.
I know which article you're talking about with the warm/cool rules. I'm not sure where those rules came from, and I don't think they hold much water, given the countless wonderful examples I've seen of warm and cool combined.
If that's the set for her apartment in the movie, hilarious the similarities between French Palace and call-girl chic!
I love production designers!!!
Btw, BUtterfield 8 won an Oscar for Cinematography/Color.
tailyo: i'm not sure i follow whatever warm/cool rules you're referring to either. my background is in studio art; at a certain point i check intellect at the door and listen to the thing inside that makes me jump up and down. look, listen and ask questions and soon enough you'll know what suits you.
The colors are beautiful but I don't see them working in NYC unless used in a place that could remain super-clean.
The celadon in the third photo is gorgeous; the first blue is a bit too girly for me... and I'm a girly girl. Still, whatever floats one's boat.
ON MY ONGOING SAGA TO PAINT TO COVER THE GRIME
I'm almost there. We've got five BM samples of beigy-gray and I'm waiting for a good, sunny day to use them and see what works.
The method: I went to Janovic and grabbed a bunch of BM paint chips that I thought might work; then I came home and compared; finally, I went back to
Janovic and got the sample jars. Methinks this is going to work and that I shall now and forever have walls that can weather NYC grime.