Titlebook: Chroma; Design, Architecture Barbara Glasner,Petra Schmidt Book 2010Latest edition Birkhäuser Basel 2010 Designer.Farbe.architects.architec

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Anselm Reyle ‘What I look for first is dissonance’cheap glossy foil, and neon colors. He thereby tests the boundaries of what is considered aesthetically acceptable, not only to provoke but also to illuminate our cultural taboos and the allure they have.

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Sauerbruch Hutton ‘For us color is a tool’Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch have used finely balanced color concepts to develop their own design language. Their work is characterized by color combinations rather than monochrome blocks. The main difficulty of this approach, says Louisa Hutton, is linking colors and materials to form a unified whole.

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Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec ‘Coloris like a skin’Given the choice, French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec prefer to design objects that don’t steal the show. Subdued colors with gradated shades of gray dominate the color palette of their furniture and objects—even though consumers usually favor black, white, and red over shades of brown and green.