Calke Green

Calke Green takes its name from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and it has the settled, slightly faded quality of a color that has been on a wall for two hundred years. It is a mid-tone green with enough grey to stay calm and enough yellow to stay warm — the green of gardens rather than forests.

On kitchen cabinetry it is the rare green that looks right against both marble and butcher block. In a bright room it is fresh and leafy; in a dim one it deepens toward sage-olive. Brass hardware and warm white walls are its natural company.