The Color Scheme



Jules Guerin, probably the greatest man in his particular line in the
world, has had complete charge of the Exposition coloring.

He has used only five colors, but of course these colors are not all the
same tone.

All walls are pastel pink or a sunset shade, as seen in the Court of the
Ages. All niches are the same shade.

All ceilings and shells are ultramarine blue, with two exceptions. The
Court of the Ages is a pastel blue, and that of the Court of Palms is
fawn-color.

The domes of the Fine Arts Palace, and the Court of the Universe, are
burnt orange, or, as one writer has expressed it, "sea-weed washed with
brine."

The other domes are an oriental green, approaching copper-green.

The capitals when colored are burnt orange, with either an
ultramarine-blue or an Indian-red ground. Columnettes and a few
decorative bands are of turquoise-green.

There is a unity, a balance, a color beauty all unto itself. You see it
in the architecture, sculpture, and painting, in the arrangement of the
decorations, in the courts. Then over it all hangs the spirit of romance