With pinks, creams and whites it looks back to the French court of Versailles but with turquoise blues, duck egg blues and chocolate browns it is a sassy modern colour.
Paloma
This is a beautiful, sophisticated, warm grey taupe with a great deal of depth, made by mixing two complementary colours, purple and yellow with white.
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A vintage 1950s table painted in Paloma
with the edges painted in French Linen
and a little dab of Pure White on the
drawer knob
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Photo displays work designed & created by Annie Sloan |
Old Violet
Like deep Parma violets or blue lavender it is a wonderful 18th century colour used for colouring the inside of furniture- like the lining of a jacket – or for using with as the base with Paris Grey on top and distressed. It is of course wonderful used as just on its own as here on this old desk.
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An old desk from an Oxford college has
been painted using Old Violet mixed
in places with a little Burgundian Red so
the finished colour is not flat and even.
The edges of the drawers are Old White
and the interior is painted in Emperor’s
Silk.
This photograph by Christopher Drake is
from ‘Creating the French Look’
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Photo displays work designed & created by Annie Sloan |
Emperor’s Silk
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This a bright pure red like the red silk lining of a jacket; because of the way it looks we love it used as a interior of a cupboard or drawer. It is named after the red of China |
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Graphite
Graphite is a soft black made with purplish blues and brown and is not completely black. When waxed it becomes a beautiful black like dark slate.
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Duck Egg Blue

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Louis Blue
A pretty pastel Madame de Pompadour blue works particularly well
when waxed with a dark brown.
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Provence

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Scandinavian Pink
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One of the traditional colours found in much Swedish furniture we use it underneath and as a colour for interiors of cupboards and drawers. Find it used in combination in the Traditional Swedish Palette |
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