Ana Gasteyer goes full design nerd to riff on Vermeer's blues

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:01]I love domestic spaces being painted, and just pure, like, design nerd, there's a balance that I find kind of just sexy.

[00:00:10]Just looking at comforting blues like, oh, I'd like to paint my front hall this color.

[00:00:15]Or maybe my powder room, if I had a powder room.

[00:00:19]- The blue at that time was really, really expensive to get a hold of.

[00:00:23]It was made out of lapis lazuli.

[00:00:26]To get it all the way in the Netherlands probably cost a fortune, which is also like another mind blowing thing, because he uses blue so judiciously.

[00:00:35]It's not just like, hey, I got blue.

[00:00:37]And there's, like, blue in the reflection of the silver pitcher, and... in the rug, there's like three different shades, and then he uses it in the... Ah, it's really cool.