Color Couture: A Luxurious Shade of Blue - Remodelista
Pedro Felguerias, a London-based lacquer and historic paint techniques specialist, has earned the well-deserved reputation of “custodian of old techniques";
the man to go to if you want the paint on your walls to have a depth and texture unachievable with modern paints.
Photography by Pedro Felgueiras.
...and by following centuries-old recipes, he painstakingly mixes his paints by hand, sourcing rare pigments and reviving lost methods of lacquer and paint application.
"So, each time I need to use it, I have to wait quite a long time to get hold of it. Apparently, there is one English man that makes it to an old 18th century recipe; delivering his batches in a shopping trolley."
Blue Verditer is an authentic 18th century blue that has to be custom made for each job; weather conditions permitting.
"So, each time I need to use it, I have to wait quite a long time to get hold of it. Apparently, there is one English man that makes it to an old 18th century recipe; delivering his batches in a shopping trolley."
"Making paint it is just like cooking," Felguerias says. "
I literally cook on the stove top in a mixture of rabbit skin glue gelatin and chalk.
"The paint mixture in the pot has to be stirred constantly as the heavy metal nature of the blue pigment makes it sink to the bottom almost immediately.
I think that in the old days they used to have a child stir all day long in exchange for a biscuit and a piece of cheese."
