Cool colors in rooms such as this tend to make people feel cool and calm and can be quite refreshing on a warm day. Mark Simon, AIA, of Centerbrook, PC, architect. Photograph: Norman McGrath.
Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz in her attic (seated, smoking), Los Angeles, 1920 | src Getty museum
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This particular photograph is part portrait and part compositional experiment with Weston's growing interest in the formal concerns of Modernism. Katz is shown tucked into a network of large intersecting planes made up of the attic's floor, walls, and dormers and articulated in varying shades by light entering from an unseen window …