Concept Palettes
We love to mix design aesthetics, styles, patterns and textures! These are a few palette studies created from our personal inspirations.
Timeless Retro
A fairly unusual yet sustainable and low-maintenance material, Shou Sugi Ban (the Art of Japanese Wood Burning) charred wood creates preserved beautifully natural wood grain textures for a modern and durable exterior and interior finish. Paired with an updated colorway of classic natural cement terrazzo indoor/outdoor flooring, the space becomes an enlarged indoor/outdoor versatile environment.
When opened, the exterior reveals a jewel box surprise interior of biophilic inspired cork wall paneling. Deeply toned smooth faux leather fabrics balanced against featured plaid accent fabric and custom millwork with warm veined quartz countertops and finely hammered copper metal panels create an inviting environment. Sculpted greenery complements the color tones of the palette and adds further biophilic elements to the environment.
Shou Sugi Ban (typically cedar) is created by burning the surface of the wood, cooled, then cleaned and oiled, allowing each naturally preserved piece to have a character and beauty all its own. In addition, Shou Sugi Ban wood is entirely safe, with no chemicals or toxins to off-gas into the environment.
Neutral Vibes
Desiring to create a put own spin on neutrals, we created this spa-like environment with soothing vibes by curating color tones, shapes, textures, and natural materials that have inherent color and texture variations.
Blond millwork panels and quartz countertops with a creamy background and flowing copper and brown veining are combined to create custom millwork. Natural mosaic rock flooring feels cool underfoot and is warmed up visually with hexagonal shaped and textured wall tiles.
Warm-toned soft velvet textures and cool toned, smooth vinyl fabrics are paired with patterned upholstery fabrics to add interest to larger feature seating spaces. The space is juxtaposed with warm copper-toned metal screening to create sheer vertical separations between spaces. Adding in long graceful greenery and faceted quartz ensures that the good energies are maximized and travel throughout the environment.
Quartz’s clear energy acts as an amplifier of the vibrations put into it, making it an excellent manifestation tool, and it has been used in almost every society and is highly regarded as a super-frequency stone. Quartz is also the most abundant mineral on the earth.
Amethyst Dreams
Inspired by this large amethyst cluster with its rich primary color hues ranging from light lavenders to deep purples; and its naturally tranquil yet strong, protective, and healing properties.
By adding bright silver metallic accents with a brick texture, we reference the stones’ history of being used in jewelry by Ancient Egyptians and in the adornment of British crowns. Rich upholstery fabrics provide physically soft textures and rounded tambour wood millwork panels add visual softness to the space.
Natural birch bark wallpaper, concrete, and classic natural cement terrazzo floors, and countertops produced from recycled wood chips all breathe wellness and biophilic properties into the space; and balance the power and strength of such strong color tones.
Amethyst is Yang in nature, stimulating the energy of action, emotion, heat, and passion for new ideas and concepts. Adding amethyst stones in your environment facilitates activities, brightness, enthusiasm, warmth, and illumination - making amethyst a good addition to public spaces.