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Meet the Designers: Charlotte Taylor and Oscar Piccolo of dellostudio
For the past few weeks, our team has been busily preparing a unique pop-up installation in honour of the 10th annual Paris Déco Off. But they haven’t gone it alone. To do our nine distinctive new paint colours justice, we enlisted the design talents of multidisciplinary design studio dellostudio. Consisting of Charlotte Taylor and Oscar… read more
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Must visit colour destination – Matches’ 5 Carlos Places
Luxury fashion shop Matches has opened a beautiful retail space in a six storey townhouse on Mayfair’s Carlos Place. Acknowledging that we are in undeniably challenged times for physical-space retailers, the company has taken a fresh approach to the whole idea of setting up shop by fusing live streaming events, product launches, catwalk shows and… read more
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Meet Po! Paris, the brand merging Albanian crafts with contemporary design
As soon as we stumbled across the unusual felt lighting, and woven rugs, cushions and accessories of Po! Paris, we were taken with their use of material, form and of course colour. When we learnt that the pieces are the result of merging traditional craftspeople of Albania with some of France’s most interesting designers – including… read more
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Decorating with award winning Inchyra Blue
A wonderful historic feeling grey-blue colour – or is it green-blue? – the hard to pin down Inchyra Blue was originally created for the doors of historic Scottish house Inchyra Estate, in ‘big tree country’ Perthshire. Taking its tonal inspiration from the local dramatic skies that are typical of the area – and that change by the… read more
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Anna Atkins – a true blue original
We’ve covered the fascinating colour and physicality of cyanotypes here before, when here at The Chromologist we looked into the concept of ‘blue’. But now an exhibition opening at New York Public Library has drawn us to look in more detail at the works of one artist indelibly associated with the colour: Anna Atkins, the… read more
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The ‘impossible’ living watercolour
You may well have seen the latest work by designer Paul Cocksedge in connection with new London shopping Mecca, Coal Drops Yard. The new boutique shopping space in King’s Cross has an exciting range of niche design shops – including the flagship headquarters of Tom Dixon – and has opened just in time for the… read more
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Step out with a colour walk
Getting out of the house to explore a local area, mindfully paying attention to the details of what you see, meeting up with other people with similar interests. All of these sound like good advice for living, but they are also the basic principals behind the new phenomena of the colour walk, a part-exhibition-part-ramble that… read more
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Ask the designer: Bernie de Le Cuona
Luxury fabrics brand de Le Cuona recently turned 25 years old and celebrated with a new flagship shop in the heart of one of London’s most chi chi design districts, Pimlico Road. Interior design company Waldo Works created a boutique to suit owner Bernie de Le Cuona’s desire for a neutral space for customers and… read more
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3 Christmas gift wrapping ideas that are colourful and environmental
It can get to a point during Christmas prep, where everything begins to feel excessive and indulgent and when it does, it’s time to make a few small changes. One area where you can do this relatively easily now, is gift wrapping. Who hasn’t gathered together piles of cheap coloured paper at the end of… read more
