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A themed collection · seven studies

Christmas color palettes

Seven holiday palettes, each sampled from a real place or material rather than a stock photograph: gold leaf and plaster, Nutcracker pastels, Cotswold holly, Edinburgh black glass, Salzburg red glass, Nuremberg straw and Strasbourg burgundy. Every study gives six named colors with hex codes, rooms in that palette and a palette you can copy or keep.

Find a palette by style

Christmas mantel ideas

Three mantels, three palettes.

A white stepped plaster fireplace with a gold-leaf panel above, a loose cedar, olive and pine garland with pinecones trailing to the floor, beeswax tapers in slim brass holders, a curved bentwood object, a basket of birch logs and a bentwood chair in late-afternoon light.
Art DecoArt Deco Holiday Lime plaster, one gold-leaf panel and a loose cedar garland.
A limewashed stone fireplace hung with a full garland of holly, fir and dried orange slices, three lit tapers in pewter candlesticks, a stoneware jug of holly berries, and a tartan stocking above a log fire with stacked logs beside it.
TraditionalCotswold Christmas Holly, fir and dried orange over a stone fireplace.
A black marble fireplace against a dark slate wall, dressed with fir, dried burgundy roses and eucalyptus, smoky glass baubles, an antique silver loving cup and two tall black tapers in silver candlesticks, with a burgundy velvet ribbon falling over the edge and a gilt mirror behind.
Dark & moodyEdinburgh After Dark Black marble, antique silver and dried roses.

Rooms are imagined interiors made for each study; the colors are sampled from the materials and places each study describes.

All seven

The Christmas studies.