colour surveys

Some of the Work that we do with Colour

On 1st January 2007 Papers and Paints

were granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment

to Her Majesty The Queen

By Appointment toHer Majesty The Queen

Architectural Paint SpecialistsPapers and Paints Ltd

London

PAPERS and PAINTS

•Nearly 50 years of colour matching•Approx half a million paint colours stored on electronic database•Cross referencing between ranges•Most forms of colour notation supported

PAPERS and PAINTS

•Most lighting conditions accommodated•Metamerism can be avoided or predicted•Nearest RAL or British Standard colour identified

PAPERS and PAINTS

•Colours are matched and given a reference number•Paints can be reproduced at will in any size and quantity•We are still mixing colours that we first formulated over thirty years ago

Patrick Baty runs Papers and Paints. He has written, taught and lectured on the use of paint and colour in architecture for many years

He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Patrick Baty

Patrick comes from a line of colourists – his great grandfather, the artist Robert Polhill Bevan, was described by a former director of the National Gallery as being “perhaps the first Englishman to use pure colour in the 20th Century.” Bevan’s wife, Stanisława de Karłowska, also a successful artist combined a modernist style with colours inspired by her native Poland.

Colour Matching

• Existing paint• Other ranges / obsolete colours• Wallpapers and fabrics• Coloured objects• Either in the shop or on site

Colour Matching

We are often asked to reproduce obsolete colours

1930’s colours reproduced for specific projects

1930’s colours reproduced for specific projects

BS 2660: 1955 Range1950’s colours reproduced for specific projects

1950’s colours reproduced for specific projects

Colour Surveys

• Colour measurements taken• Existing colours identified or matched• Maintenance schedule prepared• Great savings in time and expense

Example of colour schedule produced after a colour survey

Colour Measurement

We are frequently asked to match the existing paint colour on an object. Here a sentry box at Kensington Palace is being measured with a spectrophotometer

Colour Measurement

Over the last fifteen years we have measured and stored several hundred thousand paint colours with the spectrophotometer. These are stored on a PC and close matches can be found for most new colours

Colour Measurement

Apsley HouseGate piers painted to match Portland stone

Apsley HouseWe also carried out a colour survey of the interior

Colour Survey

Colour Survey

Boodles’St James’s

Paints matched to existing and maintenance

schedule prepared

Colour Measurement

Royal Naval College Greenwich

Painted Hall

The existing colours were measured to

produce a new colour for the dado

Colour Measurement

Royal Naval College Greenwich

Painted Hall

An average was made of the existing colours

on the upper walls and a match

produced for the dado

Colour Survey

Brooks’s, St James’sA survey was made of the existing paint colours

and a maintenance schedule prepared

Colour Measurement

St James’s PalaceSurfaces were matched in various parts of the building

Spencer HouseA colour survey was carried out and colours

matched

Colour Survey

Colour Measurement

Wilton House

Colour Measurement

Wilton HouseLittle Smoking Room

A fragment of the wall surface on a paint matched to the overall colour of the

stippled finish

Colour Survey

Wilton HouseWyatt Cloisters

Each web of the vaulted ceiling

had been painted in a different

colour when John Fowler

supervised the decoration in the

1960s. We carried out a

survey in order to be able to

reproduce the colours

All Saints, Margaret StreetOld paint on organ pipes measured and matched

Colour Measurement

Carlton Club

Colour Measurement

Carlton ClubOld colours matched

Colour Measurement

City of BathNumerous examples of Bath stone measured to match in

paint

Colour Measurement

Hampton Court Palace

Colour Measurement

Hove – Private House1890s painted scheme measured and matched

Colour Measurement

Home HouseA survey of the colours was carried out

Colour Survey

Home HouseA maintenance schedule was prepared

Colour Survey

Colour Measurement

St Michael & All Angels

Bedford Park

Interior fittings were measured

in order to produce paint

for the redecoration of

this 1870s church

Newhailes, East LothianA colour survey was made of the building

Colour Survey

Carlton House TerraceForeign Secretary’s Residence

Colours have been matched for repair work

Colour Measurement

6 Fitzroy SquareGeorgian Group Headquarters

Colour Measurement

6 Fitzroy SquareThe Portland stone was measured to

produce a paint for the ground floor façade

Colour Measurement

London Oratory

Colour Measurement

Soane MuseumVarious rooms have been measured and the paint

matched

Colour Measurement

St Yeghiche's Armenian Church

Colour Measurement

Kensington PalaceNumerous colours measured and matched over the years

Colour Measurement

Colour Measurement

Kensington PalaceOrangery

Colour Measurement

Kensington Palace

Orangery

A wooden plinth had been built to prevent the base of the statue being damaged. We

were asked to produce a textured paint in a colour to match the Portland

stone base

Colour Measurement

Kensington Palace, Orangery

The walls and panelling were measured in order to produce matching paint colours.

Colour Measurement

Stourhead

Wiltshire

The National Trust sent us the colour

reflectance data of a ceiling in one of the rooms and we were able to match the

colour without visiting the site

Colour Measurement

Kingston Lacy

Dorset

The National Trust sent us the colour

reflectance data of the walls in the Library and we were able to

match the colour without visiting the

site

Colour Measurement

Mount Stewart

County Down

The National Trust sent us the colour reflectance data of the staircase wall

and we were able to match the colour

without visiting the site

Colour Measurement

YWCA Central Club

The colours on the Adam ceilings were matched for the recent refurbishment

Colour Measurement

Clifton Lodge

Ballet Rambert

The existing exterior paint colours were

matched

Colour Measurement

Downing Street

Initially we were asked to match the colour of a sentry box. Other colour work has also been carried out on the

interior

Colour Survey

Syon ParkGreat Hall

The painted scheme of John Fowler has been measured to enable a seamless

repaint. Paint colours in other rooms have also

been measured and matched

Kew Palace

We measured and matched some of

the painted schemes that

existed when the Palace was

occupied by King George III

Colour Measurement

Colour Measurement

Kew Palace

Colour Survey

Lancaster House

A colour survey was made of the State Rooms and proposals made

for the rationalisation of the decoration

Colour Measurement

Dover HouseThe Scotland

Office

We have carried out on-site colour measurement in order to produce paint for small scale repairs

Colour Measurement

Foreign Office

Not only did we identify the original

colour of the external ironwork, but we have also matched paint in various locations

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