Loos’ Violet 07KT055

Loos’ Violet - 07KT055

Foto: ©Roland Busenhardt. Text: Katrin Trautwein, ©ktCOLOR 2024. Literatur: https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/villa-mueller/#mueller-12.

Rich Rather Than Kitsch: Why Choose a ktCOLOR Purple or Violet Shade

The effects of purple and violet paint colors are completely dependent on the quality and the origin of the pigments. With ktCOLOR, you’re not just choosing a shade—you’re embracing a legacy of handcraftsmanship and natural sophistication. Unlike synthetic, overly bright purples and violets that tend to look flat, artificial, or kitschy, ktCOLOR’s purple and violet paint colors are loaded with natural pigments. They are full-spectrum colors with depth, richness, and timeless elegance.

A magical color – the nearly-blue of dawn shifts to purple at dusk.

In 1930, Adolf Loos used a Salubra wallpaper coated with madder lake and ultramarine blue in the Villa Müller in Prague. Formulations for beautiful violet colors based on transparent red and blue pigments have been known since the Renaissance. What came as a surprise was that Adolf Loos, a declared opponent of “useless” decoration, used wallpaper at all. Violets are sensitive to changes in light and quickly shift to brown. In the case of Loos’ violet, this is ruled out because the formulation is so rich in ultramarine blue.
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