Palette & Paints: Modern Yellow
From Julie
Today's House Call: Retrouvius Design Drawing Room in Primrose Hill got us thinking about yellow as an accent color; here's a roundup of rooms featuring Mondrian-like, pure-primary jolts of yellow.
Above: A yellow Talje Lyktan Bumling lamp in a Swedish summer house by Claesson Koivisto Rune.
Above: An unstudied but stylish living room from Light Locations.
Above: A yellow Staub tea kettle via Design Sponge.
Above: A yellow bedside lamp in a home featured in Martha Stewart.
Above: A lounge area at the Hotel J.K. Place in Florence.
Above: A yellow Eames rocker in a summer house in Denmark; photograph by Richard Powers.
Above: A room in High Road House by Ilse Crawford of StudioIlse features a bright yellow Jielde Signal lamp .
Above: We bookmarked these yellow box shelves a while back, spotted on Emma's Designblogg, one of our favorite sources for Scandinavian design.
Above: A Thonet chair painted yellow in a photograph by Jason Loucas.
Above: A dining room from the portfolio of photographer Frederic Vasseur, via Desire to Inspire.
Above: A kitchen in Brazil from the portfolio of Nelson Kon, via Desire to Inspire.
Above: A bedroom at the Hancock Shaker Village with yellow painted window frames; via AT.
Above: An outdoor space by Netherlands-based architects X+L.
Above: A panel painted yellow animates this kitchen from the portfolio of photographer Uli Schade, via Desire to Inspire.
Above: This clean-lined yellow loveseat adds a contemporary note to a London parlor spotted on Light Locations.
Above: A kitchen by Netherlands-based architects X+L.
Above: A work by Josef Albers in a NY loft by Fernlund + Logan.
October 9, 2009
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I LOVE this post - the shot of yellow is so great in these stark, modern interiors!
a pop of yellow is one of my favs!
here is my living room:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pis4piper/2856384655/
Thank you for this inspiring collection of photos. Well done.
Lovely! We did a "bicycle yellow" accent wall almost identical to the Brazil kitchen and it truly brightens the room.
Wow. Beautiful. It's interesting how even the smallest amount of yellow can warm up the most austere room, and still look modern. What a fantastic photo essay.
So funny to see the images from X&L, Xander&Leon, the outdoor space used to be the garden of the office were I used to work and we had lunch everyday on that yellow bench during the summer...it's even more beautiful in real than in the image. The kitchen is their own private kitchen and we had some really nice dinners with them. They are absolutely the best interior designers in the world!! Thanks for showing them.
Irene from Bloesem
Beautiful color schemes. Did you use benjamin moore paints because the colors look strikingly similar to BM's natura series.
I agree it does look very similar to the natura series, check http://www.aboffs.com/paint.htm to see for yourself.
You're not fooling anyone with that spam, Mr. "Benjamin Morre" . . . or is that Mr. Aboffs?
It's funny - I think yellow works so well as an accent colour (as all these fantastic images prove!) but so rarely works as a feature colour. I've got yellow lamps, prints, vases - but I'd be wary going the whole hog.
Could anybody tell me the name of the yellow bedside lamp in the Martha Stewart photo? i've being trying to track down something similar for ages with no success!
Somehow, I like the yellow accents much better than the pink ones that you showed in another post.
I just painted my husbands bathroom honey bee yellow, he has a large wide open room w/cool tile work on the floor and reddish paneled walls 5 ft up the 9ft walls it really warmed the room up I love the look. I used DashandAlbert's Cats Paw rug on the wood floor.
nice blog.
I'm lovin the yellow accent in these pictures. It gives me an idea on my next re-decoration plan for my home.
I think the key here is that it is, as described, a "Mondrian" yellow. Fave composition is the yellow Thonet chair.
