The hazy, earthy color of moss is a yellow-green with grey undertones. While it is a color often found in nature, it is a difficult color to capture inside the home.
In an updated 1950s villa originally designed by modernist architect Harwell Hamilton Harris, interior designer Kay Kollar used many tones of this color to great effect; ”…..her vision of a subtly varied palette of earthy greens and browns, which would articulate the structure, strengthen the sense of enclosure and bring the outdoors inside. She tried out 250 tones and selected 15 to use consistently on walls, ceilings, mouldings and frames.”
Harwell Hamilton Harris was an architect born in southern California in 1903. While his name may not be widely known, his work was influential in the world of modernist architecture. He designed houses, ….” that straddle the divide between the organic expressiveness of (Frank Lloyd) Wright and the machine imagery of Neutra. None better achieves that fusion than the bold composition of interlocking volumes he created in 1950 atop a ridge in Beverly Hills.” all material in quotes written by Michael Webb
1. Little House in a Garden by Charles Lacoste, 1905 2.,3. and 4. from The World of Interiors, June 2008, Photographs by Richard Powers, Chu and Gooding architects, interior design by Kay Kollar 5. Office by Martyn Lawrence Bullard 6. via photokunst, photographer unknown 7. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dana Thomas House, Springfield, Illinois from Carol M. Highsmith archives
