20/05/2026
Joyful Colour: How Does Colour Make us Feel?
From “chromophobia” to colour that makes you feel something.
We attended a talk yesterday with Anna Starmer at Solus Ceramics during Clerkenwell Design Week, the conversation moved beyond trends and into something more instinctive: how colour connects us to materials, memory, ritual and place.
We loved the idea of moving away from trend-led palettes and instead thinking differently about where colour comes from such as waste, weeds, flowers, earth, stories. Colour not as surface decoration, but as alchemy.
From temple marigolds in Mumbai transformed into dye, to Studio Mumbai collaborations, Prada market stalls in Milan, every reference pointed back to colour as something joyful, immersive and deeply human.
A reminder that timelessness doesn’t mean neutral. Sometimes it means colour with meaning.