Deep, saturated color fills every room of a home that designer Lory Johansson created for a client who works for Disney. She took inspiration for the home's fabulous colors from animation cells, which explains the colors' intensity. Anything you love can serve as inspiration for your home's color palette, from a beautiful Monet painting to a Lichtenstein or a Warhol. Lory began by choosing eight or nine colors to be used throughout the house. In order to accentuate the architectural elements of the space, each intersecting plane was painted a different color, a technique known as color blocking (figure A). Each color was assigned a space in relation to other colors that would be seen with it. An oversized purple-velvet sofa with a curvy silhouette accentuated by hot-pink piping seemed to need a yellow wall (figure B), and that in turn dictated the orange of the ceiling. The lyrical shape of the sofa helps soften the house's stark angles. Feminine touches such as wavy vertical blinds and curvy spring-based barstools also balance the masculine lines. The barstools, made of industrial springs painted the colors of spring, stand out against a bright-red bar (figure C). In the dining room, a Corbusier table is surrounded by fanciful high-backed chairs, each upholstered a different color. The high backs give the open dining area an intimate feel, creating a room within a room (figure D). Four colorful Murano glass lamps assembled into a single fixture hang above the dining-room table. The playful feeling extends to the upstairs home office, where a Hawaiian-shirt sculpture inspired the installation of surfboard bookshelves (figure E). Lory Johansson suggests that we look not at what things are but at what they could be in order to realize their potential.
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Lory Johansson, Designer
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