Blue is hardly new on the scene. Pantone designated a sort of French blue as its top color for 2008. And the color has become iconic for sustainable water stewardship and perhaps partially displaced green as a signifier for environmental responsibility. Dense blues do seem to have come into their own, as interiors and I like deep blues in that setting. Visit The Blue Apartment , a partner in the nydesignroom opening of Post-Retro Modern on May 16.
The intense blues have been slow to catch on in fashion, especially as navy blue has become so stodgily corporatized. A Grassroots Futures take on the New Conventions of the Edgier Business World will be coming soon. What I see during my grassroots travels is a long neglected synthesis of the green/blue nexus. Appropriately on my way to the recent Left Forum at Pace University, I spotted a glorious bottle-green taffeta flounce skirt with a black lace border paired with a robin’s egg blue top. And need I mention that among the first green shoots among the blues the much-maligned turquoise appears more and more frequently.
The work of artchitects Adam Golinczac and Jennifer Demsey arrives into the nydr universe just as we get ready to explain to our friends what we have been talking about, this post-retro-modern idea about things beautiful and practical.
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