Brown

I wasn’t a huge fan of the colour brown. But combined with vivid colours, brown becomes beautiful, a thing designers perfectly understood in the 60s and 70s. Every time I stumble upon a piece from those era’s, I’m stunned by the wild colour combinations they used back then.

I’m a bit of a nerd, so I have a habit of exploring these kind of finds from very nearby (can you imagine me already? With a vase sticked to my nose? I should ask a magnifying glass for my birthday and practice more on my Serious Investigator’s Look). The vase at the left for example, has these very tiny pale yellow and green spots, colours you’d never expect on an old German Vase from the 70s.

I gave this cute lampbase a Rie Elise Larsen shade, to give it a bit of a contemporary twist. I’ve doubted for ages about the colour for the shade, but I think I’m gonna like it (it’s like that time I bought the Smurf blue curtains for our bedroom, sometimes it takes some time to get used to stuff. I guess my gut is as daring as those old designers, whereas my mind is still a bit conservative). In the end I had to buy it before the husband did, I drove him crazy with my whining “what colour to choooooose?!”.

So… even brown has now the potential to get in my top ten of favourite colours, as long as it’s combined with bright oranges, greens, purples or reds.