There is no other shade of blue with a history quite like it. International Klein Blue® (IKB®), started as a vision in the eyes of Yves Klein, a young color enthusiast, soon to become a groundbreaking artist. This striking and pigmented color is cemented in art history and is a firm color fixture in the interior design world, too. But what exactly is this color, and how do you decorate with blue in this vibrant shade.
To start with, we better answer the question: who was Yves Klein? Yves Klein was a French artist. Born in Nice, in 1928, Yves was fascinated with the blue skies and sea of his hometown on la Cote d’Azur since childhood. It’s the sky in particular that became his muse and canvas for creativity. “It's as if he defined the sky like the biggest and the most beautiful of his works,” shares Dorothée Dujardin of the Yves Klein Archive in Paris. “To the point where he famously said the birds were ‘trying to make holes in the most beautiful and largest of his works," in 1946, at the young age of 18.
