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B ritish paint company Little Greene Paint & Paper, once available only in the UK, is making its way through the United States — no location in Houston yet, but ordering online is a breeze. With 27 new colors this season (part of a palette spanning 300 years of decorating history), four standouts trace back to some of Britain's grandest houses. Perpetual Blue, a mid-to-deep blue with a touch of green, comes from a surviving paint palette in Winston Churchill's Kent studio. Rome, a deep, green-leaning blue, was found in a guest bedroom at Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland — once home to the design-obsessed Lady Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart. Flight Pink was pulled from the great staircase at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire. And Elysian Yellow traces to The Chinese House at Stowe in Buckinghamshire. Founded in 1996 but tracing its roots to Little Green Dye Works from the 18th century, Little Greene produces its full range of traditional and modern, interior and exterior paints from its own factory in the foothills of Snowdonia. Colors here are never discontinued; they're retired to an archive that stays available on request. Little Greene at littlegreene.us. Rebecca Sherman A Palette with a Past 56 F or fans of S p a n i s h filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's exu- berant body of work, his furniture collaboration with Roche Bobois was both unexpected and entirely fitting. Cromática, which was introduced at Milan Design Week last year, is as colorful, flamboyant, and emotionally vivid as his movies. At the center of the collection is the El Deseo lounge, Hans Hopfer's modular sofa reissued in fabrics Almodóvar designed from his own film posters — Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver, Talk to Her, and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, among others — limited to 50 signed, numbered pieces. A plain-fabric version of the same silhouette is also available. He chose new colorways for the company's Bubble sofa to mark its 10th anniversary, selected the palette for a range of cocktail tables, and lent his film imagery to a china unit, rugs, and cushions. Almodóvar has spent more than four decades building one of the most singular bodies of work in film, known for his outsized use of color, his blend of humor and melodrama, and a cast of eccentric, vulnerable characters. Rossy de Palma, the actress Almodóvar made famous in his films starting in the late 1980s, who later became a muse to Jean Paul Gaultier, designed her own capsule within the collection, including a vanity, rugs, and accessories. Pedro Almodóvar x Roche Bobois, at Roche Bobois. RS Scene Stealer The Cromática collection by Pedro Almodóvar x Roche Bobois Pedro Almodóvar Historic house paint colors from Little Greene's latest collection