Black and Gold: The most basic pair

An Art Deco room composed of black and gold. Large areas are deep black: lacquered cabinets, velvet sofas, black stone; gold appears only as extremely fine lines: brass inlays, furniture edging, lamp frames, totaling less than five percent of the area. Because gold is just a line, it appears like drawn geometric shapes on the black background, rather than a vulgar gold mass. Avoid: using large areas of gold and gold leaf, letting gold become a surface or block, using shiny gold decorative accessories, changing black to dark grey and losing contrast.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個以黑金構成的裝飾藝術房間。大面積是深黑:髹漆的櫃體、絲絨的沙發、黑色的石材;金色只以極細的線出現:黃銅的鑲嵌、家具的包邊、燈具的骨架,總面積不到百分之五。因為金只是線,它在黑的背景上像被畫上去的幾何圖形,而不是一片俗氣的金。避免:使用大面積的金色與金箔、讓金色變成面與塊、使用亮金的裝飾配件、把黑色改成深灰失去對比。