It's a match made in heaven, a classic pairing, the design world equivalent of milk and cookies or, better yet, Champagne and caviar. Blue and white can bend to an improbably wide range of styles, configurations, and schemes, from traditional to contemporary, sweet to sophisticated, and everything in between. The allure of blue and white is elemental and, like many things born of the Earth, exacts on us a sublime, instinctual pull. In other words, asking why blue and white is so seductive is largely irrelevant: All we really need to do in the face of such beauty is just dive in and surrender.
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