She: Why are your interiors so nondescript and grey
He: Do you think I’d have said that if we were
in a bright green interior?
„To talk about colour in architecture is to talk about light. The interplay
of light and the plastic form of the components of a construction is
a wonderful set design, a space for colour.“ Petr Kolář (architekt)
„Even shadows are – thanks to remnants of light – full of colour tones.
Colour is a tool for discovering the world. Adding fields of colour,
while retaining a certain interspace to allow light to work,
gives rise to COLOUR.
To use colour means to fight it.“ Pavel Roučka (artist)
„Fashion brings a visual restlessness into interiors and
society as a whole. It is a world of modulation. What has yet
to be expressed is clarified using colours, forms and structures.
Colour makes the initial impact on our psyche, followed by form
or structure.“ Daniela Flejšarová (fashion designer)
„The choice of colour for furniture is closely related to
the building’s exterior and the materials used. A furniture designer
must take care that the colour palette amplifies or supports
a room’s atmosphere. The final effect is determined by the sum
of all parts, a symbiosis of the forms and colours of the building
and the furnishings.“ Hans Verboom (designer)
„Colour is a psychological and physiological affair. A lemon lit with
red light, viewed in an isolated environment with nothing for comparison,
appears yellow to us. In evaluating our perceptions,
we engage our brains and our experience. An instrument respond
s to light waves, and coldly, lacking a brain, “sees” a red lemon.
We are surprised.“ Pavel Štěcha (photograph)