Heading towards the cooler end of the color wheel Pantone has chosen Emerald as it’s pick for 2013. Not a color to recede or take a back seat in vibrancy, Pantone 17-5641 makes a bold statement like it’s predecessor Tango Tangerine . Where Tango Tangerine was meant to wake-up and energize, Emerald’s glow sends a more ethereal message of well-being and balance. Considered a highly fashionable color to use in the 18th century two forms of verdigris , was painted on the walls of two dining rooms in George Washington’s home—Mt. Vernon. Most often seen as a byproduct or “corrosion” seen on copper, verdigris was used in Pompeian frescos, during the Middle Ages in oil paintings, and extensively in the monastic environment as a pigment for illuminated manuscripts and books. The “new room” (dining room) is the largest, most public, and most elaborately decor- ated room at Mount Vernon. Washington believed the color to be ...‘grateful to the eye’ and less likely than ...