Eileen Rockefeller

My mother coveted red hair. That’s how I first became acquainted with the longing for red. Later she painted her library red, and when my husband and I renovated our farmhouse I imitated her with a Chinese red in our library. It was so exhilarating that I used the same red on the trim in our bedroom, with light yellow on the walls. Only afterwards did I learn that these are the Tibetan colors. The combination is surprisingly soothing, like meditation. If you put a little yellow next to red it both softens and brightens, simultaneously. But it has to be a warm red and a very light yellow.

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