EGGPLANT THE COLOR.

LA COULEUR DES AUBERGINES

A few days ago, I needed to find a sofa color for a special client of mine. As I am very familiar with her house and her taste and her slowly evolving style- relatively classic to much more modern- we both thought bronze was a serious contender as well as deep gray. The material was in any case to be velvet, good quality cotton velvet. Velvet does do so well in dark tones.
And then it hit us when we saw an eggplant velvet. Yes! that's it!
My front door is aubergine, so is my client's favorite bag, so, of course we were going to come around to aubergine...no doubt.

This is what her sofa will look like. Naturally, her house is not a chalet like this one, but the colors in the room are greige with some warm wood and 1920's armchairs in taupe mohair velvet and an olivy beige rug. Warm colored neutrals. Perfect. Done. Well, decided anyway.

The whole process made me think about the color eggplant: it is decidedly refined, softer than navy blue and even brown, yet somewhat in the same extended family, and in fact it's EVERYWHERE! 

In fashion

From day to night

in high places...

and consequently in all kinds of applications

Cosmetics

Accessories

In interior design

Inevitably aubergine has taken over entire rooms with it's varying shades and depth, from medium to dark from rosy to blueish purple.

(the colors below are suggestions and may not be the actual paint colors used)

medium

Benjamin Moore Fire and Ice #1392 

Deep

Benjamin Moore Grappa # 1393

rosy

Benjamin Moore Plum Perfect #1371

purple

Wickes Aubergine

brownish

Resene Aubergine

blueish

Benjamin Moore French Violet #1427

And why not paint the ceiling a soft shade of eggplant?

It can be found in the bathroom, a very dark masculin shade of brownish purple

and in the kitchen...

A perfect color with grays means aubergine is a perfect color with steel

Benjamin Moore Mesquite #501- Farrow & Ball Binjal 222

If you are wild about the hue you can choose it for anything else you might dream of. The high end car industry seems happy to oblige.

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au revoir.