In the third episode of “Top Design” the designers were challenged to create a cabana inspired by one of three famous resort locales: Miami, Tahiti, and St. Tropez.
Felicia, Andrea, and Michael were victorious this week with a Tahitian cabana and their choice of a neutral palette while not extremely creative may have spared them the harsh criticism that the other two teams suffered.
When the judges viewed the finished projects Team St. Tropez and Team Miami received low marks largely due to poor color choices. Team St. Tropez built an innovative structure but lost points for choosing a brick red that was too dark and didn’t speak of their exotic beach destination.
The judges also had positive comments about Team Miami’s cabana but couldn’t get past the color scheme of acid green and purple. The judges didn’t see it as a color choice that would be at home among the pastel sherbert hues of Miami and in the end Team Miami lost the challenge “largely due to the horrible color which was your (Elizabeth’s) choice,” said the judges.
Elizabeth’s tearful departing words say it all. “I just wish I didn’t go out with ugly colors”
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Our Response To Color Is Personal
Leatrice Eiseman says, “Color in the environment can be a real mood-setter,” so it is best to remember that colors can bring feeling about and evoke memories both good and bad. It is important to remember that childhood, to a point, is remembered through the colors we associate with favorites, as well as the things we disliked.
Intensity of color will also affect feelings and emotions. Remember, all these things - color, memories, mood, and appeal - affect your decision when choosing your palette, so make sure you are serving up the emotions you are comfortable with. Surround yourself with the colors that work for you.
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10th Feb. '07 ·
Category: Art & Design
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Tags: art
Authored by Kate Smith
Is this what ancient sculptures really looked like?
The exhibition includes 21 colored replicas of well-known Greek and Roman sculptures that are decorated with what is believed to be the original color.
These sculptures summarize the findings of long-term analysis and research at the Munich Glyptothek’s ateliers - as well as show a different kind of aesthetic.
New research methods were developed in order to trace color remnants on ancient sculptures. This was followed by careful analysis, in order to reproduce the initial colors with as much accuracy as possible.
When all this was achieved, color was added to replicas of well-known Greek and Roman sculptures.
Knowing that these sculptures were once colored is one thing, but actually accepting anything other than the classical white versions is another.
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Check out your lover’s eye color to see if you’re a match made in heaven!
According to the Eyecare Trust finding your perfect match could be as simple as looking into a potential suitor’s eyes!
Eye colour is one of the major subconscious rules of attraction.
Generally speaking we choose partners with a similar eye colour to
ourselves or people who’s eyes are akin to those of our opposite sex
parent ie: your mother if you’re a man or your father if you’re a woman.
So, if you want to get a head start attracting the object of your
affections check out the colour of their eyes to see if you are a match
made in heaven.
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This week the Bravo channel premiered their new reality show “Top Design”. I have to admit, being a huge fan of home decorating magazines, I have been anticipating it’s first broadcast. After all, how often do we get to hear interior designers and editors of prestiges publications openly discuss what makes or breaks good design.
Up until now this forum has been pretty much been cornered by the fashion industry with shows like Bravo’s own hugely successful “Project Runway” and E’s “Fashion Police” plus a bevy of stylists and fashion editors on every news magazine show talking about the latest and greatest hot trend.
I eagerly tuned in to find out how some of today’s top interior stylemakers—Margaret Russell, Editor-IN-Chief of Elle Decor, L.A’s top interior Stylista Kelly Wearstler, mod home product designer Jonathan Adler and former fashion designer turned home furnishing designer extroadinaire, Todd Oldham—would judge and advise a cast of hopeful designers in the world of successful high style.
The cast, which runs the gamat of ages, experiences and client lists, were challenged to team up and design a room that could act as an inter-sanctum for a “mystery client”. They were then presented with a handful of objects sent over by the mystery client as a means to visually communicate to them his/her taste and personality. The design inspirations items included a vintage t.v. set, a white figure painted on black velvet canvas, a large wooden Asian doll head, a framed exotic butterfly, and a disco ball.
Now I realize that designing a space for a client without a preliminary meeting could be quite difficult, even when it includes a budget of $50,000, access to the prestigious Pacific Design Center and a skilled carpenter but what seemed to be the most daunting task was defining exactly what an inner sanctum is and where in a home it should be located for someone you’ve never met.
Some teams thought it was a bedroom , to others it was a sitting room, and to one team it was simply a sparse room furnished with only a slightly cushioned deco-inspired swing onto which this person could rest their weary bones after what might have been a long night at the local disco.
While the six teams all had different ideas as to what type of space constitutes a personal sanctuary for this obviously eclectic client the one thing they did all agree upon was COLOR.
Each team chose a neutral palette and although the colors weren’t exaclty the same the overall effect was strikingly similar. Even with brightly colored object as their source of inspiration, the designers all knew that even the wildest of personality would find these soft neutral colors to be calming and relaxing.
Rather than focus on what they might have assumed were the mystery client’s personal color preferences based on the inspiration objects they drew upon their understanding of the effect of color.
While color likes and dislikes are very individual there are many physical and emotional effects of color that have consistently been proven to evoke particular responses and in this case the designers used colors that they knew would produce feelings of calm and quiet.
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