Crimson & Lavender & Beige

Lavender (pale, medium — the characteristic pale medium lavender of the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively New England-associated of all the spring-flowering trees: the common lilac — Syringa vulgaris — the most extensively planted and the most immediately internationally associated of the New England spring garden flowers — the most specifically New England-colonial and the most immediately domestically associated of all the early American garden plants — the specific pale lavender of the most perfectly blooming and the most intensely fragrant New England lilac — flowering in the most specific May period — the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively fragrance-specific of all the New England spring garden experiences) and Beige (warm, pale — the characteristic warm pale beige of the Shaker pine wood — the most immediately specific and the most comprehensively Shaker-craft-associated of all the American domestic wood species — the most specifically and the most immediately warm white-to-pale-beige of the most carefully selected and the most precisely crafted Shaker furniture pine — the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively simple of any American furniture-making wood tradition — the specific warm pale beige of the most carefully hand-planed and the most perfectly waxed or oiled Shaker pine being simultaneously the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively specific of any American furniture material) create the most specifically New England and the most immediately Shaker village cool-neutral pair. Against Crimson's passionate Shaker-barn warm, this creates the most specifically New England Shaker village American palette.

The palette is the visual world of the Shaker village — the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively design-specifically simple of all the American religious community settlements (the Shakers — the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing — founded by Ann Lee — 'Mother Ann' — 1736-1784 CE — in Manchester, England — before immigrating to the American colonies in 1774 CE — the most immediately domestically simple and the most comprehensively craft-specifically beautiful of all the American religious communal traditions — producing the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively design-historically influential American domestic furniture and craft style: Shaker furniture — the most immediately internationally recognized and the most comprehensively design-historically respected of any American decorative arts tradition).