Lately, I’ve become obsessed with the color blue. Its nuance and range of hues have drawn me in over the past year. In the spring, I saw an Introspective article featuring a restored Georgian manor with a pale blue drawing room. In early summer, an oil painting I stumbled upon at the Clark Institute showed a young woman in her bedroom, its walls painted robin’s egg blue.

These moments brought various references to mind: the somber beauty of Picasso’s The Old Guitarist; the ethereal quality of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, with Venus’s head resting against the pale blue sky; and the rich history of blue itself. Long associated with royalty, blue was often made from semi-precious stones like lapis lazuli, used by the Old Masters for their most meaningful works. With that in mind, HH Studio created a world of blue.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Brooklyn brownstones included drawing rooms. Historically, these rooms were often covered in blue to showcase the homeowner’s wealth and status. Now, once again, One Monroe Place has a drawing room: a sophisticated, whimsical, modern interpretation of the type, drenched in beautiful shades of blue.

HH Studio is proud to present Blue Period.