Indigo, Art and Design–The Allure of The Blue Mansion

I had recently returned from Penang, an island in Malaysia–the inner city of its capital, Georgetown, is an UNESCO World Heritage site. On our final day there, we visited the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, also known as “The Blue Mansion”, built in the 1880s, it was the home of an illustrious Chinese businessman, Cheong Fatt Tze…

Serendipity in Green

It started out late last year, when Pantone announced that their colour of 2013 is Emerald Green. Since then I had looked for opportunities to blog about Emerald Green. During the Hollywood awards season (Golden Globes, Oscars, Grammys), the celebrities donned Seafoam Green and skipped Emerald Green. The idea of blogging about Emerald Green still…