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House Beautiful
Decorating with Color
September 2004

Out of the Blue
Jill Kirchner Simpson

Sometimes one small adjustment can lead to a transformation.  New York designer Scott Sanders had been living in his one bedroom apartment in the West Village for ten years when he decided he wanted a change.  Always color-directed in hi work, he took inspiration for his new scheme from the French blue of his Smythson of Bond Street stationery.  When he found its match in Pratt & Lambert's Paradise Lost, everything clicked.  His collection of blue-and-white Chinese export porcelain came to the fore and expanded; he re-covered his sofa in rich Ralph Lauren periwinkle Ultrasuede, and recast his bed as a rhapsody in blue.  To keep the blue and white from becoming too beachy, he re-covered his chairs in Ralph Lauren's black Motorcycle leather.  Crisp stripes, touches of geometric pattern, and contemporary art kept the modern look.