Interior designer Sheila Bridges, also known as Harlem Toile Girl, talks to Patrick O’Donnell from her home in the Hudson Valley. She describes her fascination with toile de jouy printed fabrics and how she decided to create her own toile, depicting scenes from African American life. Together they explore the pink patterned wallpaper of Sheila’s childhood bedroom, the Oval Room Blue of her defining decade when she started to embrace bold colours, and the soothing grey-lilac of the now, which she describes as soft and calm.

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Author of international best-selling novels ‘When God was a Rabbit’ and ‘Still Life’, Sarah Winman invites Patrick O’Donnell into her flat in London. Together they muse on the vibrant green of childhood football matches on newly cut grass, the deep blue of the mediterranean sea she loved in her youth and the soulful grey of her defining decade, moving to London and coming out as a gay woman.

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Tony Liu, entrepreneur and co-founder of cutting edge Instagram account Diet Prada which critiques fashion, pop culture, and current events talks with Patrick O’Donnell from New York. Together they discuss the huge influence of the PRADA colour palette on Tony’s life and work. Tony also recalls his first suit in grey at the age of just four and what it symbolised, his passion for green which he associates with a moment of acute shyness during a school photo shoot and his love of pastel colours and the Impressionist painters. 

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In this special episode to mark World Mental Health Day, Patrick O’Donnell talks to colour therapist and writer Momtaz Begum-Hossain about the way colour has transformed her life and the way she uses it to support and empower others. She describes the joy of the beautiful droplets of pistachio green food colouring she used to make peppermint creams at school and the balm of re-discovering citron yellow during the pandemic. And she gives Patrick a few colour tips for bringing greater well-being into daily life too. She says, ‘Colour is an instant mood-booster. It can guide decision making and inspire our creativity. If you really welcome it in you can experience it’s full sensory potential.’

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Alyssa Nitchun, Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of art in New York, talks to Patrick O’Donnell about the colours of her life from her New York apartment. She shares tales of her candyfloss pink childhood passion for dressing up, her pitch black youth as a goth and she describes the bright red of her defining decade as a queer DJ and advocate for queer art and expression. She says, ‘I chose red for my defining decade because I think I was hungry for everything. But right now my colour is arsenic green because I’m in a time where I’m kind of harnessing that energy.’

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Textile designer Christine Van Der Hurd invites Patrick O’Donnell into her home in London’s Notting Hill Gate. For more than three decades Christine has been designing for textile collections with Cappellini, Liberty London and Louis Vuitton among others as well as museums including the V &A in London. She describes the deep aubergine of her early childhood growing up surrounded by her father’s antique collections and the bright zingy yellow of her lofty New York years and she unpicks why she’s developed a love for the many shades of white.

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Gardener and landscape designer Sean Anthony Pritchard takes Patrick O’Donnell through his garden gate and into his Somerset cottage in the Mendip Hills. From the crimson red of his grandfather’s sweet peas, to the green of his years travelling the London underground on the district line, he shares colours that connect the different chapters of his life. And he takes Paddy into his glorious rose garden to show him the blush apricot rose petals he makes potpourri with. 

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Actress Michelle Dockery is best known for starring as the brilliant and brutally honest Lady Mary Crawley in the TV series Downton Abbey, for which she’s won a number of awards. In this first episode of a new series of The Chromologist she invites Patrick O’Donnell into her London home to talk about the colours which have shaped her life. Together they discuss the deep green of her indie youth, the fiery red of her Downton Abbey decade and the rich blue of her life now and her emergence more recently as a singer. ‘The last few years I’ve really fallen in love with blue and particularly Inchyra blue,’ she says ‘I find it a really calming colour and I think it reminds me of some of the amazing places I’ve filmed in over the years – those beautiful old estates.’ 

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Glyn Fussell, activist and creative who describes himself as ‘the party starter who changed the scene forever’ invites Patrick O’Donnell into his newly painted Essex home deep in Epping forest. Glyn is the wild mind behind the trailblazing queer party Sink the Pink and the co-creator of one of the UK’s biggest pop music festivals, Mighty Hoopla. This special conversation marks PRIDE month and Farrow & Ball have been lucky enough to collaborate with Glyn on their ‘Paint with PRIDE’ project which celebrates the positive power of colour and light. Together with Patrick, Glyn shares the colours of his life from the deep velvet brown of his childhood growing up in Bristol to the sky blue of his coming out in Perth, Australia and the bright pink of the decade that followed. ‘I’ve always been a dreamer’, he says ‘and my dreams have always been bright and multicoloured.’

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 Lucinda Chambers is one of fashion’s most influential figures. She’s former director for Vogue and the founder of boutique online retail outlets Collagerie and Colville. In this episode, she invites Patrick into her West London home to share her life in colour – from the coral of her mother’s creativity and her childhood homes to the traditional deep blue of French workwear, which for her symbolises summer, freedom and play. ‘I think a lot of people are terrified of colour. But I always say start with creeping colour. A pop of lipstick, or green eye shadow, or some amazing lilac earrings.’

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