TAILORED | MARCH 2022 | VICTORIA + ALBERT
Wallpaper* and House of Rohl create three architecturally inspired color palettes for Victoria + Albert
Palette of American postmodernism
The works of Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, Michael Graves and Robert Venturi – the pluralism, irony, paradox and contextualism of American postmodernism – all contribute to a confident, industrial, dramatic and fearlessly contrasting palette. Think monochrome with pops of color – steel, graphite, gray, black, with soft gold, green glass. Douglas recognized that American postmodern buildings embraced color like no other architectural movement, giving facades variety and personality through the deployment of colored glass, ceramic tile or stone – an aesthetic sensibility that can be adapted and applied to the room. of bath.