I’ve lately become obsessed with the color blue. Its nuance and range of hues have drawn me in over the past year. In the spring, I saw an Introspective article featuring a restored Georgian manor with a drawing room painted in pale blue. In early summer, an oil painting I stumbled upon at the Clark Institute showed a young woman in her bedroom, its walls painted robin’s egg blue. And, while experiencing The Odyssey in theaters, I was entranced by the sweeping shots of gray-blue ocean expanse looking down upon the Greek ships - it took my breath away.

Throughout these moments of seeing blue, various references came to mind. I remembered studying Yves Klein and the iconic, copyrighted International Klein Blue (IKB). The somber yet striking beauty of Picasso’s The Old Guitarist. The ethereal quality of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, as Venus’s head rests against the pale blue sky in the distance. Blue has long been a desirable hue; the pigment’s rich history carries associations with royalty, and semi-precious stones like lapis lazuli were often used by the Old Masters to create their most meaningful works. With that in mind, HH Studio created a world of blue.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Brooklyn brownstones would have included a drawing room for withdrawing after entertaining guests for a moment of relaxation. Often, to showcase the homeowner’s wealth and status, these rooms were covered in blue, referencing the color’s ties to nobility. Now, once again, One Monroe Place has a drawing room: a sophisticated, whimsical, modern interpretation of the type, still drenched in beautiful shades of blue. HH Studio is proud to present Blue Period.