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Lives in Colour

Life in Colour: Green

Interview

Life in Colour: Green

Elizabeth Sweetheart Rosenthal on Life in a Monochrome Spotlight

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A Conversation with Elizabeth Sweetheart Rosenthal

‘My mother died a couple years ago at one hundred and four, and she had macular degeneration. But she could see in her periphery and she could always see me. We’d go walking together. She loved me being green. I’ve had a long life and have been through a lot and have my design studio and this and that. But when people see me they just see the Green Lady. That’s fine.’

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Life In Colour: Red, Blue, Green and Yellow

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Life In Colour: Red, Blue, Green and Yellow

Yui and Takaharu Tezuka On Life in Colour

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A Conversation with Yui and Takaharu Tezuka

Yui and Takaharu’s designs feature almost no colour. One project, the Roof House, is all sandy wood, topped with a sloping gray roof. In their own lives however, colour is a defining characteristic. Yui wears almost exclusively red; Takaharu blue. The objects they share are yellow. Their daughter, fourteen, wears yellow, too; their son, eleven, wears green.

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