A little bit brown, a touch red, Marsala is my favorite
color from Pantone’s Spring 2015 Color Report, so I was beyond thrilled to see
it named Color of the Year in the WSJ this week.
“It has an organic and a sophisticated air,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, Pantone’s color advisory group. If that brings to mind farm-to-table cuisine, bushy-but-coiffed beards and urban dwellers’ growing obsession with farm life, that is exactly the cultural phenomenon that Pantone—and the design world—are addressing here.”
Organic
and sophisticated. Precisely how I felt about this color the first time I saw
it. The day the color was announced, my Cyber Monday order of zircon rondelles
in dark cognac appeared in the mailbox – and they look to be a good match for
Marsala. Can’t wait to pair them with Aquamarine.
So, while wreaths, pinecones and garland make their annual appearance throughout the rest of the house, it’s beginning to look a lot like Spring on my bead table!
