Colour is Everything

Colour is everything - it's powerful, visceral, mysterious and deeply personal. It carries with it a highly charged emotional impact, influencing our mood and how we experience our surroundings.

Hues and shades play against one another, only revealing their underlying tonal mutations when they are seen side-by-side. The art of colour composition requires a careful hand, an extensive knowledge of theory, and an instinctual eye that embraces its magical alchemy.

We use colour as a tool to add balance and weight; lift and contrast; a push and pull to create the illusion of depth and height. Colour defines silhouettes, camouflages defects, emphasizes negative and positive shapes, and adds volume, unity and harmony.

EM Design Studio's colour signatures have a distinctive point-of-view, with an emphasis on under-stated complexities. Palettes should never feel forced or contrived. Instead, we favour an unexpected layering of hues that work together to form a cohesive story. Our colour stories include ones that change ever so slightly from morning to evening; nuanced hues with a muted luminosity; veiled and chalky, ethereal and sublime, atmospheric and fluid. Our approach to colour is to embrace its complexity to create a visual poetry that is an integral part of every EM Design Studio interior. Yes, colour is everything.