Deep Redwood sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Mid Redwood is the swatch that breaks rank: a single brown that stops the set reading as one note. Deep Redwood and Dark Redwood 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. Dark Redwood is the loudest thing in the set and every swatch beside it is warm too, which gives the palette no way to cool a page down and no colour to rest an eye on.
Deep Redwood a citrus-bright orange: enthusiasm, playfulness, an unmistakable call to attention.
Dark Redwood a citrus-bright orange: enthusiasm, playfulness, an unmistakable call to attention.
Mid Redwood grounds a palette: stability, reliability, the color of wood, soil, and things built to last.
Light Flagstone a mustard or ochre yellow, optimism weathered into something wiser and more textured.
Pale Flagstone a mustard or ochre yellow, optimism weathered into something wiser and more textured.
Postwar optimism made domestic - Case Study Houses for a California that believed design could improve every life: Eames plywood and fiberglass, Neutra's steel-frame houses opening to the canyon, and Saarinen's organic plastic furniture for the jet-age family.
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