It’s March 17th and for those of us that are Irish and those that wanna be (at least for one day a year) it’s ‘the wearing of the green’ in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.
Americans have been celebrating St. Patrick’s Day since the 1850’s. But if you’re knowledge of Irish history only goes as [...]
Well if you are perusing the streets of NYC- the answer might be just be “I see a blue chair looking at me!”–thanks to the color-loving, design savvy crew at House Beautiful magazine.
In celebration of America’s love affair with the color Blue, the mag and some of our favorite furniture companies have teamed up to [...]
All of us here at Sensational Color, along with the world, mourn the extreme loss of life for the people of Haiti. We talk about how color can change one’s life…so this week we ask you to please pay very close attention to the healing powers of red and blue.
Two trusted sites are also represented [...]
We’ve been hearing quite a bit about the Color of the Year in the last couple of weeks and while there is not one official organization that bestows this honor on a single hue several well recognized companies that are involved with color each name and create a lot of buzz around a ‘Color of [...]
In 2007 I had an opportunity to appear on CBS Sunday Morning in a segment called In the Pink. The show aired just before Valentine’s Day so was focused on the color pink but of all the things I shared the point they seemed to find most interesting was the fact that the commonly accepted [...]
Pantone just announced the color of the year for 2010: PMS 15-5519 Turquoise, an inviting, luminous hue.
Here is what Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute® has to say about this year’s color of the year
Colors and personality are a funny thing. You may love a particular color for one purpose in your life, but find it completely inappropriate for another. You may stroll about town happily in a cherry red coat but the thought of breaking bread in a crimson room makes you itchy- a bedroom dressed in layer [...]
pillows and fabrics from Calico Corners
The addition of fleshy golds and fresh greens warms up classic blue and white in home, in fashion- add in a touch of dingy gray, coal black and metallics ( either gold or silver would work) and you’ve got a look that’s totally futuristic boho.
Diane Von Furstenberg Resort 2010, Marni [...]
image from NASA
I will be celebrating Earth Day today by starting a compost pile, planting some flowers, vowing to be more diligent about recycling, re-purposing, conserving water and worshiping all palettes blue and green. Remember that old saying ‘blue and green never to be seen without a color in between’? Well that theory has thankfully [...]
Last week I donned my blue and orange scarf and headed out to watch the New York Mets win there first ever home game at Citifield. As I walked around the stadium awash in a sea of NY Met’s signature orange and royal blue- I couldn’t help but think about the use of complimentary colors [...]
