The use of ‘institutional green’ spread to many other kinds of facilities, including educational and industrial. In many hospitals green has given way to blue, but green is still often considered preferable for the operating room. ![]() Green is also the color of the after-image that persists in the mind’s eye after red is viewed. This ‘eye-ease’ green has been scientifically proven to keep the surgeon’s eves acute to red and pink, to relieve glare, and to be psychologically ‘cooling’. Thousands of surgical suites, uniforms and drapes eventually became green, with the hue anywhere from lettuce to spinach, depending on the location. He chose to have his operating room painted a lettuce-leaf green because it is the complementary color (or opposite color) to red and pink: the colors of blood and tissue. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco was disturbed by the glare of white walls, drapes, towels, sheets, and so forth. I wanted to know why nearly every institutional or industrial surface between the 1920s and 1950s was swathed in coats of green, so I did I little research and here’s what I dug up:Ĭolors for Every Mood, by Leatrice Eiseman Some call it sea foam, lettuce green, bile green, Nile green or mint, but whatever the shade, if you said ‘institutional green’, almost everyone in the Western world would know what you’re talking about. Most likely you already have an idea of what your ideal office will look like for those who don't, here is some historical inspiration and food for thought. Exposes like the ones in Life magazine revealed institutions that had grown to unthinkable proportions, military and medical in look and feel. ![]() ![]() Later, overcrowding and lack of funding transformed these well-planned if paternalistic hospitals into the nightmarish multi-bed wards we know from movies like The Snake Pit and Shutter Island. The advent of moral treatment and the original Kirkbride hospital designs brought forth the idea that a soothing, beautiful environment could facilitate healing even the original mega-mental hospitals were still designed for individual patient rooms. Environmental cues assist in putting a client at ease. Making clients feel comfortable in an ideal, homelike setting has been a goal of therapy décor since the early 1800s.
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