Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.To say that Farrow & Ball colour curator Joa Studholme likes to\u00a0live with her paints is an understatement \u2013 to enter her Somerset home is to know that she practically inhabits them. Seated at the large, beautifully weathered oak kitchen table, with her scruffpot dog Tufnell (named for the retired English cricketer Phil\u00a0Tufnell) at her feet, Studholme is\u00a0surrounded by a patchwork of art, ceramics and decorative objects. There\u00a0are rows of assorted glassware, animalistic jugs and lines of Sriracha sauce bottles \u2013 meaningful bits and bobs that inhabit every surface. The large window frames a scene of ancient English oaks and grazing dairy cows.\u00a0Studholme lives in a former 19th-century schoolhouse built in Castle Cary stone and enfolded in hills: an appropriate location for a baptism in paint. She recently moved permanently to\u00a0Somerset (she formerly split her time between this house and one in London), and the house and its surroundings have\u00a0cast\u00a0their spell. Alongside an immersion in\u00a0nature, she says, \u201cthere\u2019s a quietness here that makes the colours I create more considered\u201d. It\u2019s a subtlety that comes to the\u00a0fore in the new collection of 12 paints that Studholme has produced with creative director Charlotte Cosby.Right now, she is drawn to old-school tints \u2013 nothing too fresh or clean. \u201cI just know that it\u2019s stillness that people want at\u00a0the moment,\u201d she says of the gentle yet\u00a0striking shades. Born out of careful observation, these new tones reflect the beauty of\u00a0the everyday: the overlooked household humdrum, or what a\u00a0friend of hers calls \u201cordinary treasures\u201d. Douter, named after the smudged, sooty bronze of a candle snuffer \u2013 which she calls the lovechild of Farrow & Ball\u2019s Inchyra Blue and Green Smoke \u2013 came first.\u00a0A new yellow shade is inspired by her houseproud mother\u2019s freshly washed dustersStudholme started her career in advertising before joining F&B in\u00a01996, initially helping with the launch of\u00a0its first Fulham showroom, before becoming a colour curator. And while she has seen many trends come and go, she\u2019s lately noticed a colour revival in interiors. \u201cThis collection is a dalliance with strong colours that are easy to love \u2013 they feel like old memories,\u201d she says. A perk of the job: she gets to dream up all of the brand\u2019s clever \u2013 and occasionally deliberately esoteric \u2013 names. Duster, which renders the muted, and wonderfully murky, yellow tones of a sullied cleaning cloth, is perhaps the most nostalgic \u2013 and personal \u2013 of the new colours. \u201cIt connects to a childhood memory of my houseproud mother\u2019s freshly washed dusters, which I would sit and carefully fold,\u201d says Studholme of growing up in 1960s Surrey, where her strongest colour recollection is the green vinyl Formica table in the kitchen. Its muddied shade is not dissimilar to Dibber, named by her green-fingered husband after the\u00a0handy horticultural tool that makes holes in the ground for planting seeds. \u201cAll these colours are inspired by something close to home,\u201d she says of what is the company\u2019s first new line in two and a half years.\u00a0Studholme is a staunch believer that colours should harmonise with their environment; so obsessive is her pursuit of\u00a0the perfect Pantone that when her children were younger she had to promise to keep their former west London hallway the same colour just so they\u2019d know they\u2019d returned to the right home. Aged 10, she was already painting the insides of cupboards yellow to\u00a0create a sense of surprise, later daubing her adolescent bedroom in the darkest of greens. \u201cMy mother tells me that I used to describe experiences using colour,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019d call\u00a0it \u2018the holiday with the pink sky\u2019.\u201dFor those looking for advice on how to use colour, she suggests creating tonal shifts throughout an interior \u2013 moving from lighter into darker shades as you transition through the day. One of her first decorative moves after buying the house in Somerset seven years ago was to create School House\u00a0White for the walls. She suggests introducing colour as unexpected details \u2013 painting the legs of a\u00a0chair, a trim or a single detail in a vivid colour, then building up\u00a0in\u00a0bravery from there. Scarlet doors have\u00a0become a signature.She points to a huge antique crockery cabinet that fills the far wall of her kitchen. It is painted in Marmelo, a burnished orange derived from the Portuguese word for quince, which is a colour that lends character and cheer. The radiator cover and kitchen units are coated in Reduced Green, a brownish, barely there tone.\u00a0She also experiments with saturated shades in smaller, more intimate spaces \u2013\u00a0her pantry, for instance, is painted in Naperon, a faded terracotta and one of the new 2025 colours. Or she simply paints half or three-quarters of the way up the wall. The guest rooms in her home\u2019s timber-framed new wing, conceived by local architects Bindloss Dawes, are deliberately bold. \u201cI want to give guests a visual treat,\u201d she says of a breezy Sap Green (from the 2019 line created with the Natural History Museum) and soft Pink Cup\u00a0sleeping space, with an accompanying bathroom complete with matching harlequin-pattern painted floors.Occasionally, though, the\u00a0right tone is none at all. Studholme\u2019s own bedroom is washed in Stirabout, an existing F&B colour inspired by Irish porridge, and chosen for its absence of hue. \u201cI\u00a0wanted it to feel as though you\u2019re floating in a canopy of trees,\u201d she says, surveying the fields and sky beyond. \u201cIt cocoons you in tranquillity.\u201d Tranquillity is surely a shade shift we all need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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