{"id":9163,"date":"2019-03-28T07:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=9163"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:04:44","slug":"paint-inspiration-50-shades-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/paint-inspiration-50-shades-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruminations: 50 Shades of Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span>rom that first big box of crayons to midnight showings of Fantasia to Downton Abbey<\/em>\u2019s rich de\u0301cor, I\u2019ve never been able to get enough. I follow color the way some people follow Brangelina. Martha Stewart\u2019s Araucana chicken-egg hues spark my imagination, as does color guru Donald Kaufman\u2019s custom-blended barn paint based on a green dumpster. Certainly, I\u2019d find a use for that shade, too.<\/p>\n

If inspiration indeed comes from any- where, why not the cheese counter? I recall that scene in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House<\/em> where Muriel tells the house painter, \u201cIf you\u2019ll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can\u2019t go wrong!\u201d<\/p>\n

I understand the sentiment. Before me at the market weren\u2019t just wheels of cheese, but a veritable palette of options. Vibrant orange Mimolette<\/a> (I can envision my kitchen in that tint). Morbier\u2019s<\/a> grey-ash racing stripe set in pale yellow topped with blush-colored rind (guest room). The dreamy aquamarine of Shropshire Blue<\/a> (my bedroom, definitely). My mouth watered. My heart soared.<\/p>\n

I grabbed a bright yellow and Wizard of Oz<\/em>-esque emerald Sage Derby (solarium) and a deep-gold and chocolate-tinged Cahill\u2019s Irish Porter Cheese (den) and headed to my local Benjamin Moore store. The spectrometer couldn\u2019t handle food, but color-matching whiz Mary Ray suggested mixes like Da Vinci\u2019s Canvas with a tweaked Grassy Fields and Valley View, Bittersweet Chocolate, and Hadley Red. Still, I was unsure. Combining these passions begged for a higher power. So I rang up Donald Kaufman himself. My timing was perfect.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife and I were just looking at some cheeses,\u201d said Kaufman, whose wife is also design partner Taffy Dahl. Together they\u2019ve blended 30,000 to 40,000 custom colors, including some now in the Oval Office. \u201cWe were marveling at the different soft, creamy whites, the grays, the greens, the rind colors. We\u2019re always looking for good color.\u201d<\/p>\n

I shared my inspiration. Kaufman approved.<\/p>\n

\u201cColor can be anything,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve very often been asked to match food from ripe mangoes to Gaines-Burgers. Natural material has more intrinsic depth and nuance than any manufactured material.\u201d<\/p>\n

So how can I bring those cheese colors to life?<\/em><\/p>\n

Kaufman demurred. There are so many considerations. The light, for one. A room with bright light brings out the yellow, definitely a consideration for cheese. Then there are the room\u2019s architecture, atmosphere, and context.<\/p>\n

My best bet, he said, is to experience colors in each room as the light changes throughout the day, as well as in artificial light. Usually, this is done by painting walls in large swaths and comparing. I proposed actual cheese swatches, and an amused Kaufman goaded me on.<\/p>\n

So up went slabs of cheeses affixed to boards propped opposite windows. On the mantle. On my desk. It was nice to have room-temperature cheese within reach, but I worried about mice. Pinching off little nibbles like a mouse, I paced between rooms, charmed and daydreaming.<\/p>\n

Finally, I was sated with both cheese and research. But something still gnawed at me and I couldn\u2019t put a name on it. That\u2019s because Kaufman designates colors by numbers. Instead, I hungered for evocative words.<\/p>\n

But Kaufman was adamant. \u201cNames bring in emotional associations that get in the way of really experiencing colors,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n

I felt an unnumbered color rising in my cheeks. Would he feel differently about Bayley Hazen Blue<\/a> if it were Bayley Hazen 37?<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Kaufman affirmed. But he was off to lunch. \u201cThere\u2019s a cream-colored goat thing in the fridge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feature Illustration: Richard Mia<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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