Art Deco Color Palettes

Art Deco is Sanzo Wada's nearest Western contemporary — the style that defined the visual culture of the 1920s–30s, the same decades Wada was compiling his dictionary in Tokyo. Both systems share the same impulse: reduce color to its formal essence, honor craft and material, and build beauty from geometric restraint. The Art Deco palette — gold, black, ivory, deep blue, lacquer red — translates directly into Wada's vocabulary: 'kin' (金 — metallic gold), 'sumi' (墨 — ink black), 'kon' (紺 — deep indigo), 'kurenai' (紅 — crimson), 'kinari' (生成り — natural ivory). These combinations are the foundation for luxury packaging, hotel identity, jewelry brand systems, and any design project that should feel architecturally precise and materially rich.