Experts have just appointed the color of the century and it is not about to get out of fashion

Each month of January, a color tries to establish itself as the star of our walls. And every month of December, it disappears from radars. Too light, too cold, too seen. While some still seek the perfect shade to repaint their living room, an American brand has decided to take the opposite view: no longer designating a fashionable color, but the color that sums up a century of decoration.

For twenty years, the painting brands have learned the title of “color of the year”. The principle is simple: a color, often unexpected, sometimes daring, that we try to pass for an essential choice. The problem ? The colors pass, the walls remain. Thus, for their centenary, the Dunn-Edwards laboratories did not look for novelty at all costs. They have dug in their own history, leafed through the archives, studied the trends of the last hundred years. Result: a hybrid shade, born from the crossing of two pillars of the decor, two colors that have never really left the interiors, even when everything changed around. The goal? Create a color that is not only beautiful on a color chart, but living, adapts, holding the road, year after year.

What makes it unique is its ability to change atmosphere according to light and materials around. On a wall exposed to the south, she takes greener reflections. In a dark room, she pulls towards blue. It matches as well with natural wood as with black metal, light marble or golden touches. It’s not just a chameleon color, it’s a shade that gives depth without weighing down. You can put on the walls, on a row, on the woodwork of a corridor or even in a kitchen. In short, she affirms a style without screaming. It is the shade called Viridian Odyssey.

A kind of sarcelle blue, right between deep green and ink blue. In the 1930s, she was allegedly modernist. In the 1970s, she would have flirted with the retro. Today, it arises there, between minimalism and heat. Inspiring.