Architectural movements inspire new bathroom colours

The work of Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, Michael Graves, and Robert Venturi – the pluralism, irony, paradox and contextualism of American postmodernism – all contribute to a palette that is confident, industrial, dramatic, and fearlessly contrasting. Think monochromatics with pops of color – steel, graphite, gray, black, with soft gold, green glass. Douglas recognised that America’s postmodernist buildings embraced color like no other architectural movement, giving façades variety and personality through the deployment of coloured glass, ceramic tiles, or stone – an aesthetic sensibility that can be adapted and applied to the bathroom.