Colour through the ages: what Georgian interiors still teach us today

Stand inside a well-preserved Georgian drawing room and something interesting happens. Despite being surrounded by hues that were mixed from lead, chalk, and ground mineral pigment — colours that have no business feeling contemporary — the room settles. It does not overwhelm. The walls recede, the furniture comes forward, and the quality of the light feels considered. This is not an accident. It is the result of people who understood, with extraordinary precision, how colour behaves in a room.