Three hundred hand-mixed colours: inside Doshi Levien

Most studios choose colour from a fan deck. Doshi Levien built a Colour Lab: a room in their London studio holding more than three hundred colours mixed by hand for their own projects, now opened up to other designers. Colour is research there, not decoration.

That discipline lands in furniture we specify every week — the Shaal sofa, the Roopa table and the Lepal chair for Arper, where single or bi-material upholstery is a decision rather than a default. La Mercanti configures them for American lobbies and lounges.