Design in Depth: Deliciously Red
February 22, 2012
By Stacy Kunstel
Red. Can’t get it out of my head. Maybe it’s a craving for the heat of the sun after too many cool days in a row, but everywhere I look I want to see red. We so rarely see real red in interiors these days. It’s just too intense a color for most. But I vividly recall styling the kitchen of interior designer Wendy Valliere in Stowe, Vermont, and thinking about how mouth-watering her red kitchen cabinets were.
Wendy said she matched the color to a favorite lipstick. The painting process took four coats with a final coat of varnish that would protect the paint from fading due to ultraviolet rays.
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Photo by Michael Partenio
The most famous red I’ve heard of, but never had a chance to see, was the office of Diana Vreeland, the famous Vogue editor. Can you imagine such an intense color for your office walls? She was formidable in many ways.
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Photo courtesy of www.luxuryobsessed.com
Her book Allure is one of my favorite styling tools for an injection of red in a photo.
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Red is often displayed as an accent or solid color in a space, but I love it when it is the dominant color in patterned wallpaper. This is an image I’ve seen a number of times on the web, but never with any attribution. If you’re the designer, I would love to credit you!
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The most important thing is that the designer must command the red; the red cannot command you. Designer Claire Maestroni of Mis en Scene in Greenwich used red in the backs of the cabinets in her home. I love that the red goes across the ceiling as well.
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