The Secret Lives of Colour Longitude & John Harrison ultra-soft materials

ultra-soft materials

The 24-hour dial represents the Shepherd Gate Clock

Confederate icons

and Gilbert Blane

The Core of the Milky Way can be seen rising behind the castle and the Snowdon mountain range

The Secret Lives of Colour Longitude & John Harrison ultra-soft materialsThe history of colour tells the vivid story of civilisation. From scarlet women to imperial purple, leaf green to the white paint that protected against the atom bomb, Picasso's blue period to the pink Barbie claimed for feminism, The Secret Lives of Colour offers a bright thread throughout human history. Kassia St Clair's lifelong fascination with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or Dorothy's ruby