Light Carved Stone sets the weight of the palette in optimism and clarity, and Deep Wrought Iron is the swatch that breaks rank: a single charcoal that stops the set reading as one note. There is nothing between 35 and 69 percent lightness, so the palette jumps from dark to light with no midtone to build a border or a divider from. Deep Wrought Iron and Dark Wrought Iron are close enough in hue and lightness that most people will read them as one colour, which makes them a pair to separate rather than two choices to spend.
Deep Wrought Iron is black's softer relative, still authoritative, but with enough warmth to feel considered rather than severe.
Dark Wrought Iron is true neutrality, balance and restraint, a color that recedes so the palette's other choices can carry the emotional weight.
Stained Glass Green an acid, almost radioactive yellow-green: synthetic, energetic, hard to look away from.
Light Carved Stone a mustard or ochre yellow, optimism weathered into something wiser and more textured.
Pale Carved Stone reads as optimism and clarity, the fastest color to draw the eye, the hardest to ignore.
Nature set loose in iron and glass - Art Nouveau dissolved the straight line into whiplash curves, tendrils, and organic ornament, from Victor Horta's Brussels townhouses to Hector Guimard's Paris Métro entrances and Gaudí's molten Catalan facades.
Explore the full Art Nouveau style guideIts decade on the timeline · 1890s