White
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This article appeared in MarktImpulse, edition 1/19
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Light, transparent, and bright – white rooms appear elegant and sophisticated. Physically, the color white embodies perfection. Symbolically, worldwide, it represents something positive, such as light, beginnings, peace, cleanliness, innocence, and truth.
From cream to silvery – white has many facets and never appears monotonous, even in monochrome color and spatial concepts.
In Asian martial arts, part of the outfit is a belt, the color of which indicates the athlete’s proficiency evel. Beginners wear a white belt – this represents their “pure” state of knowledge, their technical ignorance.
Decoration? No, dessert! These small pumpkins are called “Baby Boo”. They weigh a maximum of 300 grams and are bursting with sweet, crispy fruit. They can be eaten whole, including their white skin.
Innocent lambs are of course white, and clearly different from the black sheep, i.e. guiltless and completely untainted.
“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative color, as fierce as red, as resolute as black...”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), British writer
Albino turtles are truly a rare sight. Because they have no pigments, they are very sensitive to light.
The digital revolution began with white. In 2008, the iPhone 3G made the Internet mobile, thanks to UMTS. Since then, we have carried the world's knowledge – and often also the entire system of organizing our lives – around with us in our trouser pockets.
The traditional houses on the Greek Cyclades islands are freshly whitewashed every spring. Their cubic shapes inspired functionalist modern architects and designers such as Le Corbusier.
We see pure white, where light reflects all wavelengths. A touch of color also brings character and allows walls shimmer softly like mother-of-pearl. The style card “Colored White” is a source of inspiration; it shows how a white nuance can flow through a room in a softer or cooler way, depending on the light. By uploading a photo of an interior to farbdesigner.de, different shades of white can be simulated on the walls.
The White Desert in Egypt looks like a mysterious sculpture park. The limestone monoliths originate from the end of the Cretaceous Period, 80 million years ago, when the Mediterranean still covered what is now desert.
