As architectural colour consultants we base our fees and services on individual clients' requirements. A typical family home colour consultation fee is €600. This includes a home visit and a client profile interview, a colour analysis report and a samples book. We can also supply our own team of professional painters to carry out the works.
- analysis and colour design of architectural space.
- concept colour in brand recognition and advertising.
- specialist advice on materials and lighting which can influence the colour effect.
- on site supervision and quality control.
- our clients include architects, designers, advertising agencies and corporate clients who want the best and cost effective solutions.
As colour designers we work with the effect of colour on the human psyche. The scale of archituctural colour form as it faces, surrounds and contains the viewer affects both our colour sense and the perception of spatial relationships.
Architectural space is also inhabited space, and as such it evokes a host of personal and cultural associations that influence colour experience.
By focusing on the phenomenology of colour space, we establish a meaningful anchor for the colour composition in which colour becomes a function of experience. This approach follows on the pioneering work of the french philosopher Gaston Bachelard who analysed aspects of inhabited space in terms of the significations that we attribute to these in perception.
Analysis of instinct and the sociology of desire are both tools in creative design. Our aim is to make phenomenology of space an intrinsic part of this process.
Herbert Marcuse once suggested that the aesthetic challenge for Modern Art is not in the realm of Art, the sphere of the Unreal, but in the actual reconstruction of society; the work of art is the World itself.
Our approach to colour takes up this challenge as much as it follows Bertolt Brecht's dictum that a work of art is “symbolic action”. The re-making of our homes and our cities in colour will no not only change the way we go about our everyday lives, it will usher in deeply transformative effects in our communal psyche. In practical terms, the challenge is to recognize the supreme value of the commonest things; of sunlight, of air and water.
The same goes for colour. Since colour is everywhere, and all is colour in a manner of speaking, in the hierarchy of values colour is often the poor relation way down at the bottom. Yet when we focus on actual experience, the very sensation and the symbolic value of colour space becomes paramount; the white rose is not red, the white dress is not black. Yet to describe is only to paraphrase.
- francesca o'brien
- marek bogacki staszkiewicz