Design | Wellness | Cabinetry
Pantone recently name color 17-5641: Emerald Green as its 2013 color of the Year.
The Color of the Year for 2013 is a very clear departure from 2012’s Color of the Year: “Tangerine Tango,” a hot color that Pantone’s Eiseman described as “sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive…an orange with a lot of depth to it.” In 2011, “Honeysuckle Pink” was the top hue, a retro hue that some characterized as “Mad Men Pink.”
But 2013 is all about a vivid, verdant shade of green that “enhances our sense of well-being further by inspiring insight, as well as promoting balance and harmony.”
To the casual observer the Color of the Year designation can seem arbitrary — in recent years, it’s bounced from shades of blue to yellow to green to pink to orange — those who study color say it’s hardly random.
“When we’re traveling around the world, we look at little clues to how we think color is progressing,” said Eiseman. said.
But like so many good things, the emerald trend seemed to start at home. “We started to see it in housewares,” Eiseman said.
Cuisinart and Le Creuset have been introducing emerald into their lines, and in Europe, the color has been showing up in glassware and ceramics.
“It has a natural affinity to work beautifully with anything with that glow,” says Eiseman.
The fashion world seems to have embraced the color, especially with celebrities Angelina Jolie, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Elizabeth Moss looking fabulous in jewel-colored gowns. The reaction from Interior Designers seems to be mixed.
Are you on board or will your color choices tend to shift a different direction?
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 is the last consecutive number date sequence of the century.
It’s considered a lucky day for Birthdays and Weddings – at least the wedding industry in my view.
Some believe the doomsday December 21, 2012 should have been interpreted as December 12, 2012.
Others believe December 12, 2012 is a day of spiritual awakening.
As if a marker was set so that you would look to this time and awaken to the potential of the era that would follow.
Numerologists also say December 12, 2012 is a great day to start a business and make investments.
The Pope will send his first Tweet on 12.12.12. You’ll have to ask him why he chose the date.
It’s 12.12.12 and so far nothing has happened.
“A modern, pure, and minimal collection resulting from the simple elegance
and unadorned forms typical of the Asian art combined with our philosophy
of well-being and luxury.”
We’ve all seen these simple forms in bath fixtures before, what I love here is Neutra‘s minimal use of color and styling. I think I’m also ready for the Holidays and wish I had that view out my window instead of palm trees.
