- Design Inspo
Interior Designer’s Guide: Mastering A Green Color Palette
Roxanne Robinson
Another approach is to go all in. At the Dar Es Saada Marrakech home of Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent, the duo brought a touch of Parisian chic to Morocco, incorporating the North African aesthetic and French provincial mood into an engulfing sea of green and blue in the salon.
Marble is another natural way to invite the shade into one’s home. This kitchen in a Brussels residence created by Studio P Architects is anchored by a demonstrative green marble island and kitchen backsplash. The velvet chair complements the pigment but contrasts in texture to compelling effect.
Green velvet is fast becoming the ‘right-here-right-now’ seating treatment. In a tribute to a colleague, fellow architect and interior designer Luis Laplace posted an image on Instagram of this unique puzzle chair covered in a bright emerald shade for a salon project the deceased designer did in Menorca, Spain. The popular curved sofa style graces this lobby in Moscow and appears in a moss green color palette, while a tufted L-shaped sofa adds a sense of comfortable regality to this salon when set atop diagonal checkerboard marble floor tiles.
Architecture
After getting a master’s degree in Architecture at the University of Illinois, Vector Architect founder Gong Dong returned to Beijing, where he started the firm in 2008. This green technology showroom is exhibit A of the work the firm is doing to combine the technology of today with the sustainable ideals of tomorrow. The designer, who also honed his craft at Richard Meier & Partners, has won several awards, including taking top honors for new Chinese architecture at the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Mother Nature often supplies the best ingredients for architectural design, especially when the principals are applied outdoors. For the landscaping on his infamous Chateau de Fabregues in France, the designer, Pierre Yovanonitch, kept things graphic but straightforward and modern by inlaying this stark pool and accented the surrounding neatly trimmed greenery with a reflective ball. The choice makes sense considering the designer’s career began in fashion while working on the men’s line of Pierre Cardin. After ten years, he traded one design persuasion for another by becoming an ‘architect d’interieur’ working on commercial projects in France and across Europe. In 2018 he brought his talents stateside, opening an office in New York.
Commercial
Perhaps the most unlikely spot to find mesmerizing design is in one’s dentist office. But what better way to relax one’s dental anxieties by enveloping them in a calming green color palette. Valencia Spain design duo Claudia Perez and Pedro Ochando, who created this dentist office for Clinica Cubells with a wavy sage green metal painted wall and deep forest chairs and table, transform a clinical space into a space of sophisticated calm.
Hotels are often the inspiration point for a multitude of directional design trends that eventually make their way into personal homes. To wit, the lobby of the Puro Warsaw Hotel is anchored by this show-stopping seafoam green sofa. The off-centered art features old maps of the city of Warsaw and are given a modern update vis-a-vis botanical drawings layered on top for a luxe, multi-dimensional finish to the space.
