hues and tones

I’m considering a palette. Something that would inspire culinary curiosity. What I thought might work might be more suitable for a linen shop. When I think of a cheese shop I go two ways – dark and cave like, OR, clean and bright with black and white tiled floor.
This image was snapped on a trip to a cloisonné studio in China, back in 2006. It’s an image I go back to again and again.