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- Wonderful Wisconsin
I am now in the heart of America… …right in the center where rolling green hills, tall silos and leaning red barns compose the landscape of Wisconsin. A state of unpretentious and genuine beauty, of quilted palettes of greens and reds – the color of apples. Soothing greens balance out dark reds perfectly [...]
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- The Walls of Berlin
Berlin is amazing – hip, vibrant, bohemian, sophisticated, artistic, musical, cultural and avant-garde, so great … I am running out of adjectives. The city still bears the marks of its forty year division into East and West. But like a phoenix, it is quite literally rising from the ashes of its tragic past. Berlin has [...]
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- Vert de Gris – an Ode to Belgium
For my first article on Sensational Color, I’ve decided to write about what I know best and love most – the colors of Belgium, my little country. It is not easy reducing a country to one color. However there is a palette that defines this low land and its quiet nostalgic beauty; Vert de Gris. [...]
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- Raise the Red Lantern
I just returned from a 3 week trip to China and Hong Kong. It was my first trip to Asia and I hope certainly, not my last. The most impressive thing about China is the people. I’ve never met such kind, happy, hospitable people in my life (and I’m from the South). And Hong Kong [...]
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- Color, Color, Color The Explorra
Do you ever crave a vacation because you crave the colors of its location? For me–a dismal gray day (much like it is here today in NY)– fills my head with the colors of the places I’ve traveled to over the last few years. The clear and gentle turquoise sea rippling in a warm Jamaican [...]
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- Let’s Colour The World: A Deluxe idea from Dulux Paints
Can color change the world? Uplift a neighborhood, bring a community together? Unite us as humans, regardless of language, culture and location? Dulux paints has embarked on a worldwide colorful mission to prove that -YES, IT TRULY CAN! Starting earlier this month in Rio, today in Paris (I know this because I am following their [...]
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- I Like Parisian Palettes In The Springtime, How About You?
In France they have a saying ‘en avril, ne te découvre pas d’un fil’ which basically means- in April, don’t put your umbrella away. It’s sort of on par to our ‘April showers brings Mays flowers’ idea… but somehow said with a French accent the sentiment just seems so much more sophisticated. Umbrellas from Alexandra [...]
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- Color inspiration: The Style and Palette of Morocco
They say that when the going gets tough the tough get going…but in this economy even the toughest can’t afford to ‘get going’ very far away these days. So what’s one to do when a dream destination has you swooning to take flight while your ‘inner accountant’ has your feet firmly grounded at home [...]
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- Spring Break in New Mexico
I just returned from a long, warm and windy week in Southeastern New Mexico. While there I experienced the thrill of blaring a country music station while driving aimlessly through the desert, being surrounded by the most hummingbirds I’ve ever seen in one place, scoring a zebra print bandanna from the biggest, best Walmart ever- [...]
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- Inspiration: Charleston Style
I just returned home from my first visit to Charleston, South Carolina- or as I like to now call it ” the best quaffed city in the United States”. All I can say is- wow! The belles and beaus of this southern gem sure know how to make an exterior style statement! (after all how [...]
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- Colors of South Beach
As if a few days of breathing salt sea air and sipping champagne weren’t enough to spoil me I had the added pleasure of strolling along Ocean Drive in Miami’s colorful South Beach. South Beach has the largest concentration of Art Deco buildings anywhere in the world with more than 800 of these gems within [...]
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Color Around the World