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If you’ve had a chance to pick up AD’s October issue, you know that ballerina Misty Copeland graces its cover. You also likely noticed the enticing pop of color in the cover photograph by Lelanie Foster. Copeland, wearing a shimmering Gucci dress, gracefully leans against a custom blue sofa designed by the decorator of her New York apartment, Brigette Romanek.
This brightly hued scene is just a preview of the issue’s many enticing color moments. Below, we share a few more, in the hopes that they may inspire future paint-, tile-, or fabric-based creativity.
Nicole Hollis’s San Francisco Home
The moody color story that defines designer Nicole Hollis’s home in San Francisco starts at the front door. In a statement-making move, she painted the 1870s façade of her family’s Pacific Heights home in Benjamin Moore’s Black Tar. “People are appalled that I painted it black, but there was never a question: I knew I would do that,” she says in the issue. Inside, the black- and charcoal-inflected palette continues in the form of darkly hued furniture and fixtures, but select pops of color also appear. The media room is painted in Farrow & Ball’s striking Green Smoke, while the paint brand’s Hague Blue in a high-gloss finish covers the cabinets in the bar. Completing the look, the backsplash in the latter room features Clé Tile in the Sacred River colorway.
Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani’s L.A. Office
The Los Angeles office space of Hillman Grand, the production and development company run by Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani, is the opposite of bland. Its jewel-toned color scheme, crafted by designer Amie Mays, is one of its central features. “It was about a mood,” Waithe says in the story. “The feeling had to be warm and colorful, with lots of texture.” Thanks to a whole swath of Farrow & Ball paints, which decorate various offices, that warmth is omnipresent. But paint isn’t the only color tool that Mays employed to achieve that effect. In one conference room, a gold cork wall covering by Candice Olson glimmers, while a mural by Adrienne Muse depicting Black performers on a polychromatic background also fits right in.
The Napa Valley Home of Samantha Rudd and Mason Garrity
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When it comes to color, the Oakville, California, home of vintners Samantha Rudd and Mason Garrity is chock-full of it. Eye-popping patterns and vivid hues infiltrate nearly every corner of the family’s estate, which was decorated by ETC.etera’s Sally Breer and Jake Rodehuth-Harrison. “We’d present something that might be seriously challenging for most clients, and Sam and Mason would look at it and say, ‘Can we do it with more color?’” recalls Breer in the article. Naturally, the result is something of a color wonderland.
In the great room, a custom modular sofa features Missoni Home’s Maseko print and Plushy by Perennials in Lavender for the seat cushions. It’s surrounded by a cornucopia of saturated throw pillows, and a scene-setting ABC Carpet & Home rug. Meanwhile, the more subtly toned bedroom is awash in a dreamy pink Eskayel print. Finally, on the terrace, the vibrancy continues with a sofa upholstered in another punchy outdoor fabric (Missoni Home’s Tahiti) and Faye Toogood’s Roly Poly chairs in a bubble-gum-pink shade.
