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PRESERVATION ( CONT ’ D )

THE LOVE OF COLOR

By Nathalie Pagels
As a greenhorn I thought there might be rules
y parents used to have a house on the

M golf course , in Lehigh Acres . 25 years ago I saw Miami Beach the first time and fell in love at once . So many buildings in that kind of architecture made me speechless . I love the architecture and I loved the different view of how to deal with color and form . On the one hand I was fascinated of the light and the seaside , on the other hand I was curious about what mentality prevails . I saw a lot of elderly Jewish people . ( Also a part of my family lived there ). And I saw fancy , younger people . Nothing in between .

The same time I started to study color- consulting in Germany . Three years later I did my masterwork
to define how to use colors .
Ever since I worked with color . First I stood on the ladder and painted myself , because I learned one year at the scenery oft he German
Opera of the Rhein . And then I recognized , that people want consultation . Nowadays I work as a ” color- conceptualist “ and as a lecturer . I invite you very much to look at my homepage .
What I learned in 20 years experience , I implemented in the ” Color Consulting Guide .“
What my attitude is , I put in an article , a lecture to the theme : Is there an ethic of color consultation ?
( the fraunhofer
Institute has it in its portfolio now ).
What my conviction is :
Colors can change people and the way we live and feel and act . To influence
and I dug out the
Miami Beach idea
Park Central Hotel
in the best way of humanity the only important thing is the
MOTIVATION .
Horowitz ’ s motivation was to preserve . The
love of color has nothing to do with profit . And
that is the running joke of my life :)
again . I had good luck and we found a little apartment from a friendly woman we knew . For six weeks . 1390 Ocean Drive .
The first thing I learned was extraordinary hospitable people . Everyone tried to give me a helping hand no matter what the problem was . One lent me his bike , which was very helpful . And I also had to borrow a camera , because mine was broken in the first days . And then , for six weeks , I was hunting , looking , took pictures , talked with people , hotel managers and visitors , sellers , employees , asked questions , visited offices , watching everything . In six weeks I was not once in the Atlantic .
In the beginning of my work I did not know what conclusions I will draw . As a youngster I thought one could explain the world , if one just observe .
Nathalie Pagels ( www . pagels-farbkonzepte . de ) is a certified color consultant and has worked for over twenty years in the field of color . She lives and works as a freelance color designer in Düsseldorf and is active for companies , public authorities , private individuals and industry . She gives lectures and gives seminars in which she wants to help color and its application to the place in the society to which it belongs . In conversation , she explains to us her “ guidebooks of color design ” and our general understanding of the phenomenon of color .
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