Exterior Expressions with Josef Albers
On a historic street in downtown Copenhagen, a façade has been transformed with JAAF 07 — a light purple tone drawn from Josef Albers’s celebrated Plate V-5. JAAF 07 Plate V-5 belongs to Blēo’s Josef Albers Color Interactions palette, created in collaboration with the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and curated by Ambra Medda / AMO. Distilled from more than 200 studied hues into 29 refined tones, the collection reflects Albers’s original experiments in how colours shift and transform in relation to context and light.
Here, the muted purple façade becomes a living demonstration of Albers’s ideas, changing in dialogue with the daylight and surrounding architecture. The panels/windows are framed in JO PA 04 Cotton from John Pawson’s Whitescale palette — a warm, soft white that enhances the play between depth and luminosity, giving balance to the vibrant exterior.
This project represents Blēo’s premium façade and exterior paint service, developed for architectural commissions with a distinct vision. For architects, designers or clients considering their own façade project, we welcome conversations about custom exterior colours — whether drawn from the Albers palette or another of our collections.
