Ruth Burts Interiors: June 2012

Saturday, June 9, 2012

coral + salmon II : bold, bright and cheerful!

In a recent post, corals + salmons: pastel-to-medium, I mentioned that this color is experiencing a resurgence in popularity!

Until recently, we've seen very little of this color.

Benjamin Moore's "CORAL REEF" 012

(shown above)

" Take a chance on this bright coral,
softer than orange, and more hip than pink.
Very Palm Beach and Lobster Salad on a summer day. " -Scott Sanders

Instead of the more muted tones of the past, corals of recent years have been cleaner, brighter grapefruit - pinks.
These pink - y corals are cheerful

and they bring the drama!

Benjamin Moore's "ALL - A - BLAZE" 1304 *

is recommended by Charlotte Moss

A pale blue ceiling, above, is a subtle foil for this bright punch of color.

The North Parlor at The Greenbrier (aka "The Princess Grace Room"),

above, is an historic DOROTHY DRAPER interior.

Draper's mid-20th-century regency style has been dubbed "Park Avenue Rococo."

The paint color is Benjamin Moore's "BLAZING ORANGE" 2011-20 .

( Is that the clock that was on 'the Bachelorette' recently ? ! )

The Dining Room above is a Jacques Grange interior; part of the Agostinelli home in Paris (walls in 'Provence Stripe: Cerise and Sand,' by Thorpe of London).

Benjamin Moore's "TANGERINE DREAM" 2012-30

" It's a wonderful Luis Barragán color, an orange that doesn't look silly. The secret about these big, white California Spanish houses is that inside they feel dark and gray. So I sit the clients down, tell them this is what we're going to do, and it will make you look ten years younger. That usually gets them to say yes. "

-Jarrett Hedborg

Benjamin Moore's "PERSIMMON" 2088-40

(shown above)

Charlotte Moss' recommendations:

- "I would paint the walls a shell pink, and then brighten it up with shades of white. Alternatively, adapt a concept from the 18th-century, where the walls would have been white, and the trim would have been painted a saturated brighter shade of pink. A third, more modernist approach, would be to semigloss the walls and trim in the same color. I would choose a beautiful shade of coral, like the darkest shade of the inside of a conch shell."

Benjamin Moore's "BIRD OF PARADISE" 1305

( shown above )

" This is a real late - 1940s, early -1950s coral, deep and rich.

It's Debra Paget wearing a sarong in Bird of Paradise.

I throw this color on ceilings -- that's the Billy Haines trick.

He knew it would make everybody look great. "

-Jarrett Hedborg

Benjamin Moore's "GERANIUM" 1307

(shown above)

Which color palettes best suit these

bright grapefruit and watermelon corals? Lots of WHITE, to begin with, and BLACK. A soft, PALE BLUE works, as does a bold, Kelly GREEN, and a chocolate BROWN. PINKS and REDS, i.e. tone-on-tone palettes, are another way to go. As you can see in these photos, both silver/chrome and golden-bronze/brass hardware (from seating and lighting to picture frames) work well with these colors. To accompany its "GERANIUM" (above) Benjamin Moore recommends its "SEMOLINA" 2155-40, a soft, buttercup yellow, plus its cooler, brown "DAVENPORT TAN" HC-76 along with its ''CAMEO WHITE" 915.

Benjamin Moore's "BULLS EYE RED" 2002-20

(shown above)

At some point,

these corals become reds...

extremely bright, extremely saturated, pure - color,

Kool - Aid Tropical Punch - reds !

- E N J O Y !

PHOTOS: 1. the aestate, 2. , 9. pottery barn, 3. la belle vie, 4. tea cupcakes,

5. flickr, 6. house and garden, 7. luster interiors, 8. unknown, 9. lonny

designer quotes via House Beautiful Magazine, except Charlotte Moss

* PAINT COLORS CORRESPOND TO PHOTOS

ONLY WHEN SPECIFICALLY NOTED!

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corals + salmons : pastel - to - medium

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pink + orange : etsy !

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