Athena Dreams Design: turquoise : pinterest-ing pins

Turquoise has always had a way with my heart... so shimmery, ethereal, and somehow, mysteriously it remains so grounded and deep. Turquoise is the colour of one of my favourite stones, the mediterranean sea with the sun shining on it, a perfect spring sky, or a beautiful shining pool.

In the last paragraph of Victoria Finlay's book Color: A Natural History of the Palette, she says:

When I was two days from finishing the first draft of this book, a friend called from New York in great excitement. "There's a text message on CNN. They say someone's found the color of the universe."... I grabbed my pen and wrote down that scientists at Johns Hopkins University had discovered the color of the light in the universe. And that it was pale turquoise*. I had no idea what it meant, but it suggested that my journey was not over. And that there was a whole world - no, a whole universe - of color stories still to find. -Victoria Finlay

*Johns Hopkins later changed their findings and made a second and slightly embarrassed announcement that the "colour of the universe" was not actually turquoise but beige, due to a computer bug.

Beige? Really? Personally, I am sticking with the first finding, that it is indeed Turquoise and not Beige that reflects the colour of the universe.

Enjoy some turquoise!

(clockwise from top left):

Painting by Alessandro Twombly
Turquoise Piano from Addicted 2 Decorating {via Classy Clutter}
Turquoise cupboards by Heinrich Ingenson
Turquoise Accents from SAS Interiors
Twinkle a photograph from Irene Suchocki
Glass Jar Tutorial from Martha Stewart {pinned by Mercedes A Averbuch}
Marrakech curtains from Anthropologie

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