COLOURBOARD / May '21

Unashamedly basking in sunshine, joy and banana-ripeness, the colour we’re feeling this month is a summer-ready yellow - in all its lemony, buttery, pollen, ochre, sweet-honey glory - the full warm, bright spectrum - a palette we hope Winne the Pooh would be proud of.

As Richard Le Gallienne, English author and poet, wrote in the late 1890s, ‘Til one comes to think of it, one hardly realises how many important and pleasant things in life are yellow.’

Yellow really is Glorious. It is pure happiness and generous warmth. It has an ease, an openness, and basketfuls of positivity. Yellow has been our guide through the months of 2021 so far by way of mimosa, forsythia and yellow tulips, and now we await the sunflowers.

It combines perfectly with blush, lightest terracotta, pale apricots and pink-mauves, light olive and jungle greens, fresh and warm whites, and a smattering of forget-me-not or deepest sky blue. And as it gets warmer all we can think about it bringing in the peaches.

As with our other boards, this is rather like a moodboard and a colour palette, but more about colour than mood, and richer than just a palette. An inspirational collection of images that we will take forward into the studio to inform our experiments over the coming weeks.

COLOURBOARD / MAY 2021

IMAGES

Images (R>L): Detail from Joan Mitchell, Untitled c.1982; Image from wedding photoshoot by Britlyn Simone Photography; Detail from Pierre Yovanovitch interior from Design Parade 2018 at Villa Noailles in the Côte d’Azur; Oil Painting detail by Julian Merrow Smith in Provence; Image from Kelly Wearstler’s California Collection for Farrow & Ball, Citrona; Audrey Hepburn by Richard Avedon, 1957; Interior Architecture from Pierre Yovanovitch Design Parade 2018; Detail from ‘Midi,’ a ten panel fresco polyptych by Aster Muro; German conceptual artist and sculptor Wolfgang Laib with a pollen installation, ‘Pollen from Hazelnut,’ 2013, 18 x 21 feet.