For COLLECTIBLE New York 2025, Farrow & Ball, the renowned British paint and wallpaper house, supported the Vignette section, bringing their distinctive palette and sensibility to the spaces imagined by our exhibitors. Their colors became more than backdrop — they shaped atmosphere, highlighted materiality, and infused each setting with depth and character.

We asked to our exhibitors three questions about their collaboration, their creative process, and the role of color in their work.

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C: Which Farrow & Ball shade did you choose, and how did it shape your creative vision?

Emily Thurman: I chose No.CB5 Cardamom. I wanted a color that would ground the space—something to anchor us while suspended high above the city. The vignette was composed entirely of metal, glass, and ceramic; all materials that reflect light. Cardamom offered the perfect counterpoint, absorbing and softening those reflections, giving the room depth and gravity. It’s one of the richest tones in the collection—earthy, enveloping, and deeply saturated.

C: What role does color play in your practice, and how did it come to life through this collaboration with Farrow & Ball?

ET: Color is always my point of departure. In every project, it defines the rhythm and emotion of a space. For my last residential project, I spent nearly two months observing how the light shifted across the walls, testing shades at every hour until the hue felt in tune with the architecture and the surrounding landscape. In this collaboration, color became the grounding note—a dialogue between nature, light, and materiality that allowed each object to take root in its environment.

C: What has been the most rewarding or impactful part of your COLLECTIBLE New York 2025 experience?

ET: COLLECTIBLE offered a rare opportunity to bring my interior practice into the public realm. So much of design today is experienced through a screen, distilled into images. To see people moving through the space, touching the materials, feeling the atmosphere in real time—that was profoundly rewarding. It reminded me why I create: to evoke a sense of presence, texture, and connection.

Vignette section supported by Farrow & Ball