Color Story: Blue
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In a renovated apartment in Mies van der Rohe's Lafayette Park urban renewal project, floor-to-ceiling glass makes for ample natural light in the eating area, while the Vitra wall tiles spanning a spectrum of blues provide a contemporary touch.
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Color is important in architect Dieter Van Everbroeck’s work, and he was eager to apply his color theories, derived from modern artists like Yves Klein and that most color-oriented of modern architects, Le Corbusier, to his own home. “I always suggest using bold colors to clients,” he says. “It gives more clarity, it means you can focus on certain parts of a building." The cloakroom/bathroom block at the main entrance has been painted in blue and green on alternate walls (according to Le Corbusier, blue and green negate and dissolve space.
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Maggie Treanor opted for charcoal-blue accents in her rural Ontario home.“In contemporary construction you have a layered approach to materials," says architect Lisa Moffitt. Everything is on top of something else. We tried to avoid that.” The house’s materials are few and hardy: polished concrete, maple, and Douglas fir, and white walls with a few bold moments of green and blue.
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Dieter Rams’s modular 620 Chair Programme, Artemide’s classic Tolomeo floor lamp and a rich blue Portofino Bergère chair that was designed by Rodolfo Dordoni for Minotti hold court in the Balcones House's living room.
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Inside iconic designer Jens Risom's Block Island prefab cabin, a relatively new Rais wood-burning stove is next to a Risom Rocker from Design Within Reach, a 2009 piece from the designer. The green-blue shelf offsets knickknacks and books displayed in the rustic interior.
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Pieces from B&B Italia's Metropolitan line outfit the living room of a recently renovated Joseph Esherick house in the Berkeley Hills.
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Designers Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama kitted out their London guesthouse with many of their own designs, including this sky-blue bench and storage rack.
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The traditional facade of Doug Skidmore and Heidi Beebe's Boise home reveals little of the modern addition in the back.
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In keeping with Jaime Hayon’s goal of creating a serene and airy home, the master bedroom and sticks to a mostly neutral palette of whites and grays. The blue bench by the bed is a custom piece designed by Hayon and his wife, Nienke Klunder, and fabricated by their carpenter friend Josep Joffre.
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The eye-catching blue of the modest 1,690-square-foot vacation home owned by Montrealers Yves Bériault and Diane Decoste is very much of a piece with the rest of Havre-Aux-Maisons’ vibrant residences. “We wanted something lively for the house, something spectacular but not vulgar, so we looked at yellows and reds,” says Bériault. Decoste and architect Marie-Claude Hamelin, of Montreal firm YH2, settled on a cerulean blue inspired by the sea, the sky, and, as Hamelin puts it, “a child’s chalk. The architecture on the islands is rather naive, so we wanted to evoke that childlike quality in the color.”
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