A material study / 043
Tiger’s Eye
Ochre, cognac & a band of moving light.
A walnut-panelled den in the colors of South Africa’s Northern Cape: ochre silk, cognac leather and a low table of golden stone that seems to move as you walk past it.
01 / The palette
Six colors, one atmosphere.
Choose a palette recipe
Screen colors are authored interpretations. Material photographs show surface character; they are not calibrated color samples.
02 / Play with the composition
One surface that shines.
Keep the walls ochre-warm, give cognac leather the largest piece of furniture, and save the deep hawk’s-eye tone for metal and ink. Move the band of light below, the way the sheen slides across a polished stone.
Palette proportions / Total 100%
Starting points
The moving band and palette proportions respond to your settings. The room views are fixed interpretations.
Tiger’s Eye specimens · Den · Band of light: 55% · Lamp warmth: 25% · Yellow Ochre: 25%; Golden Tiger’s Eye: 15%; Kalahari Sand: 15%; Camel Thorn: 15%; Red Tiger’s Eye: 20%; Hawk’s Eye: 10%
03 / Translate
From a room to an interface.
The interface
Objects, rooms & materials
Gold that moves with you.
Notes on desert color, worn leather and the sheen in a polished stone.
The same palette. Different roles.
Materials
The ingredients.
An imagined setting.
A contemporary interpretation,
with references kept beside the study.
From the board
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Sources & interpretation
A contemporary den and specimen arrangement inspired by tiger’s eye associated with South Africa’s Northern Cape. Colors are authored from styled arrangements. The optical note summarises a common explanation of chatoyancy; it is not a gemological description of any particular stone.
The palette follows the authored material references in this collection. Room, object and material imagery were created for this study. These are imagined settings, with no affiliation to the fictional interface brands.
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