great today ! I ’ ve also been someone that likes to push boundaries . At university both here in Edinburgh , and during my time in Milan , I was always keen to push what was possible . Especially as the project were all theoretical , I thought ‘ Lets make something so challenging that people will have to take notice ’ I actually got marked down in Milan because my designs were deemed too expensive , but a few years after the Master course , Louis Vuitton did a very similar scheme in one of their flagships , which was some sort of validation for me .
Subsequently I try and push my colour palettes to embrace the need to explore boundaries . When I was studying Architectural Technology it really began to grate that everything my peers were doing was just creating white boxes , and almost as an extreme reaction to that Ive wanted to add so much colour that its hard to ignore ! I like to experiment quite a bit also , so it can sometimes take a little while to hone in on the exact colour scheme , but we always get to a point that the client is happy to proceed , so the experiemntations do serve their purpose !
// above ; Merchiston Apartment in Edinburgh , UK by Studio Sam Buckley
Photographer : ALIX MCINTOSH
AD : HOW DO YOU SELECT WHICH COLORS TO USE TO BRIGHTEN UP THE SPACE ? DOES THE SELECTION OF THE COLORS IS DIFFERENT FOR EVERY SPACE , TO DEFINE A SPECIFIC MOOD ? PLEASE ELABORATE .
SAM : Theres always a starting point to the exploration of a colour scheme . For the Merchiston Apartment it was a fabric that my client fell in love with . We then pulled the other colours out of the fabric and then added in a few more to add balance . We had already focussed onto the idea of using supergrpahics ( oversized graphics ) so it was a case of applying the colour scheme to some simple shapes and then make sure to get the proportions of the colours right to work with the graphics .
In this way the colours for each space will usually end up totally unique to any of my other projects , so that I don ’ t repeat myself , and so that every client gets good independent design thats unique to their space .
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