Stone and Ivory: Another Kind of Base

A Neoclassical room with an achromatic base. The walls are ivory, stone-colored, or extremely pale beige, almost without hue; the moldings and reliefs are pure white, a shade lighter. The entire space thus resembles the interior of a stone building, with extremely subtle color gradations, distinguished only by the shadows of the reliefs. This is a more solemn approach than the colored version. Avoid: adding chromatic colors, having too great a difference in brightness between white and the base color, using cool gray tones, adding gilding and painting to the walls.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個無彩底色的新古典房間。牆面是象牙白、石色或極淡的米,幾乎沒有色相;線腳與浮雕是略白一階的純白。整個空間因此像一座石造的建築內部,顏色的層次極為細微,只靠浮雕的陰影分出前後。這是比彩色版本更莊重的做法。避免:加入有彩度的顏色、讓白與底色的明度差過大、使用冷灰的色調、在牆面加入貼金與彩繪。