LIFE IN TECHNICOLOUR
From inky indigo and fresh periwinkle to rich sapphire shades, the interior designer David Collins was known for his deft use of blue and myriad jewel tones. His canny affinity with colour, paired with a sumptuous material mix, created decadent interiors that are at once elegant, glamorous, and seemingly timeless. As Collins himself explained, the key to this cohesiveness stemmed from the appreciation of nature in all of its beautiful splendour. “I would never use or wear a colour that could not be found in nature, having seen the extraordinary richness of nature’s spectrum,”. True to its title, the design tome covered the signature stylistic features and ethos of his eponymous London-based practice, and was one of his last projects—it was published posthumously in 2014, a year after his sudden, unexpected death.
