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Midcentury color palettes

Midcentury palettes are the 1958 showroom: atomic teal, mustard, tomato red, walnut and the cream of an enamel stove. They suit furniture, retro-tech, hospitality with a smirk, considered homeware — optimism with its feet up.

The era's colors are all a step muted — chalk mixed in — and that is the entire trick. Each palette here refuses full saturation and keeps the walnut stop for legs and ink, exactly as the furniture did.