Forget biscuit-beige, put away the Wiltshire loam: ours is a world of colour

摘要

The mind becomes dimmed by exposure to unmemorable lobbies, passages or subways, surviving in a world of standing in line, or at best scanning a blandly lit supermarket shelf in search of cheap optical fun.rnI have been reminded of this as I slither around the world from Clerkenwell to Santa Monica, from Seoul to Grenoble - or wherever. Some stopping points are agreeable, especially Nordic airports, which enjoy a mixture of comfort, cultural self-confidence and developed 'eye' that appears to understand the value of light, view, glass, texture and piquant colour in respect of mass surface.