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“The best color in the world is the one that looks good on you.” - Coco Chanel
Recently, Sherry Hayslip of Hayslip Design Associates, translated her choice of accent colors for this season into paint options available from Benjamin Moore or Pantone colors, for a prestigious site dedicated to trend analysis and forecasting.
Well, as Hayslip Design Associates specifies a wide variety of paint brands in its work and rarely gets down to anything as detailed as specific Pantone colors, that put an interesting twist on things. But color is so inspiring, and those little Pantone chips are so fun to play with that she thought she’d take a stab at it.
Hayslip started by looking through photographs of her work and pulling out those that she felt really spoke to trends in colorful interiors.
Here are the top Pantone colors called out as Sherry’s “key accent colors"......




......which were used in a couple of Hayslip Design Associates’ projects.


“I love to see the heat of fuchsia pink cooled by a luscious green,” she says.

THE DESIGN
Vetro Glassblowing Studio and Gallery founder, David Gappa, designed this exquisite, original vessel to be a prominent accent within a private residence. Gappa's vision was to create a glass replica of an aquatic abalone transcending from its oceanic existence to an even more woundrous and complex place among man. He calls it ABALONE CREST.

THE ART
Sand-inspired tonal hues were handblown by Gappa and his team into the abalone shell base, forming a vessel lined with metallic blues, greens and magentas. Crushed glass envelopes the art glass sculpture in a display of both illusion and certainty. ABALONE CREST is 14 inches tall and 7 inches in diameter. Commissioned for a private residence.
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This lovely painting was brought in to Brown Mountain Art Restoration in the spring of this year. The canvas is 37 x 40” and has much sentimental value to its owners. Purchased at an antique shop while vacationing in Atlanta over 30 years ago, it holds cherished memories of that treasured time for the couple.
Although little information was found of this particular paintingʼs history, it does date back to the early 1800s. Very similar to subject matter of that time, the often depicted Madonna and child with St. John is an image that warms the heart. Unfortunately, the tears and subsequent paint loss on the Madonnaʼs face, dress, and the distant hills affected the aesthetics of the painting.
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The staff paintings conservator, Amy Dobson, carefully patched the tears in the painting from the back. She applied a reversible adhesive and two linen patches to the damaged area allowing the frayed edges of each tear to meet.