When addressing her use of dusty greens in the modernisation of this Melbourne home, designer Fiona Lynch wonders whether the recent dulling of her palette is a portent of darker times or the function of maturing eye. “I certainly now see things through the denser filter of lived experience, but colour is such a potent signifier,” she says with conviction that it exists as much in the economic, social and political realms as it does in the physical. “It is fundamental to our understanding of contemporary culture and loads with meanings and perceptions that can be specific to a moment.”
The history books ratify her thinking, with green, across the centuries, variously encoding spring rituals, naivety, divine order, demonic possession, good health, wealth and the ruinous l’heure verte (green hour)…
