New treatment of color is tossing coordination out of the window. Last year designers boasted the easiest way to evoke the feeling of chic in your décor was to create a monochromatic palette. Others said that the easiest way to use color in your house is to pick one accent color and combine it with neutral tones. “If you are scared of orange pair it with your beige.”
But we are seeing a new trend in color coordination that breaks away from this attitude-- splashing color through rooms with a vengeance. “The more color the better!”-- is the battle cry as they daringly put hot pink next to chocolate, sky blue next to grass green. Oh the delicious horror, though color theorist might clutch their overpriced books, tisking at color combos.
What are these color renegades doing? It is possible that they are so wrong they are right. Mixing patterns and colors, using colors for intensity rather than shade, these theories are in the designer handbook too-- they are just in the back of the book. When studying this concept we see that it isn’t splashing color haphazardly but rather it has its own set of rules. The easiest strategy to achieve a multicolored wonderland is to have your own colorful antidote to go with your color story. So when your traditionalist friends are appalled at your choice of putting bright yellow, next to cobalt blue, you can look them straight in the eye and say “I was feeling very French Riviera,” and watch their sentimental hearts embrace your new found sense of color. After all, why should shabby chic have all the fun of putting nonsense together to create nostalgia?
More information on up-and-coming color trends can be found in the Jacobs & Ismail Imports trends and source guide available fall 2006.
*Originally Posted on Word on the Street 7/14/06
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