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Sunday, 10 March 2013

Emerald City

Posted on 21:00 by Ashish Chaturvedi
With "Oz the Great and Powerful" doing huge numbers at box office this past weekend (over $80 million in the US), it got me thinking about Pantone's color of the year: Emerald & that specific shade of colored glass. All three above are from Empoli, Italy, 1950s.
l to r: 15", 16.5", 9"
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