Colour

The “C” Word.

Conversations about Colour.

Hue Are You?

If politics are too uncomfortable for the dinner table but you still want to initiate a lively and passionate debate try raising the subject.

What colour do you like?

Which colour can you not abide?

Lewes has a legacy of colour. From the painters studios to the bold choice of front doors popping through the narrow streets (my current favourite is the Kelly Green front door roughly opposite the old flea market, by the time you read this it will almost certainly have changed)

Colour is a Lewes thing.

Discussions with clients about colour are revealing, fascinating and, quite often, wildly inspirational.

The yellow.

They had always had this particular Yellow in every home they had lived in since the mid nineties.

She loved it for its peculiar soft dazzle. Like a dirty dandelion she says. Like the beak of a bird she didn’t know the name of. A very specific yellow.

It appeared first as an accent. Then a statement.

Now, as the kitchen space of a home in the country was being composed, the flirtation with the colour would become a full blown love affair.

The yellow of a perfect egg yolk.

He had a different view. He liked, loved, the same colour but, for him, it invoked a different thrill.

He said it was the yellow of the Andy Warhol banana on the first Velvet Underground album. The yellow of a seventies Yamaha flat tracker.

The same yellow. A different yellow.

The yellow exploded beautifully in the larder room. Across every wall and shelf. A room you would want to eat.

If you like yellow.

And not just yellow.

This kitchen dripped, flashed and burst with colour.

Five other colours. Five discussions.

Like Hockneys socks. A sliced watermelon. “Still” by Joy Division. A perfect young olive. The green of Eddie Cochrane’s Gretsch guitar.

And so on.

A project is a collaboration with clients. A collaboration is an exchange with a rich pay off.

A finished kitchen which satisfies even the most obscure desire.

A client and a maker both a shade, a beautiful, deep and rich shade, more informed.

I will never like purple. Sorry