Journey through a joyful exploration of colour
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By Catherine Lambert
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Colours are like people for designer Danielle Brustman. It’s like chemistry, she says. The way some people bring out different things in you that you only see when they’re standing next to you.
Interior designer Danielle Brustman says colours are like people.
Credit:Simon Schluter That’s what it’s like with colours. There can be a colour that isn’t necessarily one of my favourites, such as a dull brown, but if I put it next to a pale, cloudy blue, they become beautiful together.
Brustman is taking part in the National Gallery of Victoria’s
Triennial exhibition, opening December 19. Her technicolour involvement is as much an intellectual quest as it is an exploration into how colour impacts mood. The answer is anything but black and white. Brustman’s work is designed to get us thinking about colour as therapy and it’s here she uses her interior design strategy to explore it via colour in carpeted walls, floors, balustrades and interior fixtures. Inspired by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier’s colour theory essay from 1931 titled
Architectural Polychromy, Brustman uses his colour tool Clavierde Couleurs (colour keyboard) to create her own soundtrack within the NGV.