Six on colour

	There's no arguing about colour “I don’t like brown and I don’t like green. It’s too dark and it also has something to do with my background. My mother thought that green was a colour for the countryside, we live in the city and therefore we cannot take green. Not for clothing nor for the house. It have been told so many times that I dislike green.” “I don’t like blue. I had it since I was young. I have green eyes and I never choose green because I think they swear at each other.” “These are ‘grandpa’ colours’. It’s a dark, old fashioned colour. It doesn’t exactly make you cheerful.” Quotes from research into colour choices by Tricolore, in 2000. There’s no arguing about colours. There are, however, things we CAN argue about. Should all houses have the same colour?

Do the balconies stick out of the building of are they spaces left open in the form of the building? Are colours allowed to ignore the shape of a building? What are the ‘real’ colours of this famous Rietveld chair? Should something catch the eye or should it be inconspicuous? next page

“I don’t like blue. I had it since I was young. I have green eyes and I never choose green because I think they swear at each other.”