Last month I was talking to my mom about painting the long wall in my living room. She told me that when she was four years old her uncle, an architect, had one wall of her family’s living room painted in two shades of yellow, cut diagonally. That was Vienna, in 1928 — the early part of the Art Deco period.
I was intrigued by the idea. It seemed so simple, yet I had never really seen anything like that. I decided to try it, just for fun and also as a kind of homage to that uncle and to my Viennese heritage. I chose a soft green plus the creamy beige that I had already gotten for the other walls.
The funny thing is that it turned out to be much more subtle than I thought it would be. I say that because everyone who has walked into my apartment (and that wall is at the entrance) hasn’t noticed it at first. But when they do, they like it.
