Color psychology | violet

Violet or purple combines emotional red with cold blue and thus all the opposites associated with both colors. Violet makes use of the properties of both colors and thus symbolizes a meta-level of the objective and the physical - the psyche, the supernatural and the incomprehensible. Mysticism is often expressed through the color violet and often violet is also the color of mourning and at the same time of hope, of the new and of new beginnings.

It is not without reason that the fight for gender equality is characterized by the color violet. Violet light has the power to release healing energy and promote one's own spirituality. For centuries, purple, a shade of violet with a high proportion of red, was reserved for spiritual and secular rulers, as this color was obtained from the secretion of the so-called purple snails - a complex and expensive affair.

In the Catholic Church, purple vestments are reserved exclusively for bishops - cardinals wear red. And the Protestant church also uses purple as an identification color. In Mexico, the color of snails is still used today for dyeing and in ancient Rome, the wearing of a purple toga was reserved for the emperor. The toga of the senators was only adorned with a purple stripe, whereby the common people were forbidden to wear the precious color on pain of death.

Purple is the color of the superhuman and can also have different meanings depending on the shade, mood and individual association. The novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker, which was later made into a film by Steven Spielberg, and the song 'Purple Rain' by Prince associate violet with strong emotions. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe already described the essence of colors in his extensive "Theory of Colors". This also applies to the color purple. Goethe was extremely taken with its effect, writing in his 'Harz Journey' of 1777: "But when the sun finally approached its setting and its rays, tempered by the stronger vapors, covered the whole world around me with the most beautiful purple color, the shadow color turned into a green (...). The apparition became more and more vivid, one believed to be in a fairy world, for everything was clothed in the two vivid and so beautifully matching colors (...)".

The painter William Turner would later capture the essence of Goethe's theory of color in his painting Light and Colour, completed in 1843, in oil on canvas. An exhibition by Verner Panton at the Trapholt Museum in Denmark in 1998 and in London, England, actually bears the same title.

Purple is the complementary color to yellow and is rarely found both in nature and in interior design. Occasionally, individual walls are painted in pastel purple, but lights, furniture, carpets? Purple is probably the most underestimated of all colors in interior design. Purple-accented cushion, lights, carpets, chairs, armchair or sofas are real eye-catchers.

Design objects in purple or with purple accents have a very special charm. Not only do they set elegant color accents, they also provide exclusivity and perhaps a touch of eccentricity. With the following design objects from TAGWERC, you can bring a touch of violet into your home.