Decorative pillow with a color wheel design on a white background

Vintage Color Wheel Decorative Pillow

Square 12" / Soft Velvet / Polyester Fiber
$80.45
Sale price  $80.45 Regular price 
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Colour Theory · Moses Harris · Designer Cushion

Vintage Color Wheel Decorative Pillow

$80.45
Sale price  $80.45 Regular price 
Description

There is a particular discipline to the well-dressed room — the understanding that comfort and beauty are not opposing forces, that a considered textile on a sofa or reading chair communicates as clearly as any painting on the wall. The Vintage Color Wheel cushion cover brings the antique colour science tradition into a domestic format: Moses Harris’s 18th-century prismatic wheel, its twelve graduated hues and aged paper ground, printed across a heavyweight designer textile.

The circular colour diagram maps naturally onto the square cushion format, the wheel centered on the face with the aged cream ground extending to the edges. The warm oxidized tones of the source — the yellows shifted toward gold, the blues cooled and greyed, the reds carrying the dusty rose of old watercolor — give the cushion the quality of a document recovered from a working studio rather than a reproduction from a file. It earns its place in a room that takes colour seriously.

Built from a heavyweight designer textile. Four fabric options at checkout. Six sizes from 12″×12″ to 24″×24″. Cushion pad sold separately. Part of the Colour Theory collection.

Specification & Care

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Specifications

Construction: Heavyweight Designer Textile

Fabric Options: Four Curated Designer Fabrics, Select at Checkout

Closure: Full-Length Zip, Easy Cushion Insertion and Removal

Available Sizes: 12″×12″ · 16″×16″ · 20″×14″ · 20″×20″ · 22″×16″ · 24″×24″

Includes: Cushion Cover Only. Cushion Pad Sold Separately.

Source: After Moses Harris, The Natural System of Colours, c. 1776

Care: Machine wash gently at 86°F (30°C). Tumble dry low. Iron on low heat. Remove pad before washing.

A Note from Jeff

The colour wheel is one of those ideas that arrived fully formed and has required almost no revision in two and a half centuries. On a cushion on a sofa, the aged warmth of the original document sits comfortably against almost any domestic palette, the circular form filling the square face with exactly the kind of quiet confidence that a good object in a room should have.

For a studio sofa or a reading chair, I think this is the right thing to reach for.

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