Styling the Psychedelic Sixties Colour Palette

Did you know that as well as releasing their Colour of the Year, Pantone also put together colour palettes representing each of the decades since it began? These were released a few years ago, and I have to say, the palette they devised for the sixties, the Psychedelic Sixties Palette is a winner!

We do love an inspiring colour palette, here at Peace, Love & Daisy Chains, so decided to put together a photo shoot capturing our brightest pieces of the era.

Fabulous bright candy colours spanning the breadth and depth of the rainbow, the pink, green, violet, yellow, blue and orange shades perfectly encapsulate the look and feel of the late sixties psychedelic
era.

Say Pantone: 

Youth culture erupted in the '60s, and sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll were the (dis)order of the day. From Swinging London to Haight-Ashbury, Mod to Mondrian, and Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin, music and psychedelic drugs turned people onto color. Timothy Leary influenced the fashion scene as much as Mary Quant. Fashion models and photographers were becoming as important as designers, and Twiggy emerged as the face of 1966.

With this in mind, we decided to shoot pieces of from our flower power china collection which  fell into the colour palette – we ended up with a colour explosion!

The Spring Time collection by the Barker Brothers is perfect for this time of year, when the flowers are blooming their brightest, most psychedelic colours in anticipation of the sun.

I’m in love with these truly psychedelic plates made by Washington Potteries – we also have the cups and saucers that go with this collection. Did you know that Washington Potteries was designated the official pottery of the Beatles? It looks like they were certainly inspired by the Fab Four.

 Hendrix has been playing on our Spotify constantly this month, and I think he would have felt quite at home with our picnic.

Many of the most colourful pieces come from overseas, like these Arcopal coffee cups and saucers which abound in France the Netherlands but are harder to find in the UK.

Spain's Pontesa is also in on the act, with this fabulous cup and saucer in bold colours.

We hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as we enjoyed shooting it - and drinking the wine after! If you'd like to see more, then don't hesitate to follow us on Pinterest, where we have set up a special Pinterest board!