Outremer takes as a starting point the Musée Guimet in Paris and it’s collection of Asian art amassed by industrialist and traveller Emile Guimet whose fortune was made in the production of a synthetic ultramarine pigment essential as a whitening agent. Not only describing the colour, Outremer (Ultramarine) translates directly from French as overseas and was the name given to colonial territories and to military service performed there.