PHOTOGRAPHY: BENJAMIN SWANSON INTERIORS: MARIA SOBRINO WRITER: CHRISTOPHER STOCKS
BEST
CHROMA
ZONE
Interiors get a colour injection
We’re fans of colour blocking, so when we came across
go-to German paint specialist Caparol Icons’ library
of 120 super-saturated emulsions, we couldn’t resist a
hotly hued rethink of our walls. The paints are a bold
backdrop to Hermès’ cashmere blanket, or ‘plaid’,
featuring the graphic abstractions of French-Korean
artist Seulgi Lee and stitched using a Korean quilting
technique. Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen’s
‘Fireworks’ screens in enamel-painted steel offer an
intense chromatic hit, while colour animates Beirut-
based Karen Chekerdjian’s reconfigurable ‘Totem’
table, which recently became part of the permanent
collection at Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs. ∂‘BELOVED PAINT’ IN NO 120
BURLESQUE; NO 55 DENIM;
NO 79 GREEN TRICK, €85 PER
2.5 LITRES, ALL BY CAPAROL
ICONS. CASHMERE PLAID
(HANGING), PRICE ON
REQUEST, BY SEULGI LEE,
FOR HERMÈS. ‘FIREWORKS’
SCREENS, FROM €12,000 EACH,
BY MULLER VAN SEVEREN.
‘KEEPERS RED’ RUG (CENTRE
LEFT); ‘MELROSE YELLOW’
RUG (BACK RIGHT), FROM
£750 EACH, BOTH BY THE RUG
COMPANY. ‘TOTEM’, $4,000,
BY KAREN CHEKERDJIAN.
‘SIGNATURE’ FLOORING, FROM
£70 PER SQ M, BY AMTICO
FOR STOCKISTS, SEE PAGE 168∑ 093
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