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A parallel between nature’s colours and materials

In a biophilic year archive

In nature, colours and materials are always in dialogue, hues always being specific to the surfaces they belongs to. Design tends to treat these qualities as separate, yet reuniting them gives spaces some of nature’s coherence.

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This essay is part of A Biophilic Year Archive, available with the book A Biophilic Year: 365 thoughts on the essence and practice of biophilic design.

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