Color for Interior Design
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (965 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810958880 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Both science and psychology influence the art of marrying style and pigment: "Nature has always provided the visual stimulation of color, light and texture, while history has shown the human need for variety and change," writes Rompilla in her breathless survey of 3000 years of architecture, art history, color theory and science. Except for a few anomalies, such as an out-of-focus photograph of Josef Hoffmann's Palais Stoclet, the art is well-chosen, nicely reproduced and beautifully incorporated into the book's coffee-table format. From Publishers Weekly Whether it was in a cave, an early Minoan palace or an American Federalist home, people have always looked to bring color and design into their living spaces. . Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Complementing an eclectic assortment of 125 illustrations (including 95 in c
It spans a breadth of periods and locations, from prehistory through to the Renaissance in Italy and Greece; the 16th-18th Centuries in France, England, and America; and on, to the 19th Century and beyond. Part I is a history of interiors from the point of view of their colour systems. It has practical and easy to use advice on colour schemes as well as a discussion on the ongoing nature of trends.. This is a comprehensive introduction to working with colour in interior settings. Part III is a practical guide to the would-be decorator on the use of colour to enhance interior settings and to create specific effects. Among the most notable interiors which are covered are Fresco of Elegant Ladies from the Palace of Knossos, Crete; The Black Wall from the Roman villa at Boscotrecase near Pompeii; Le Corbusier's reflecting blue wall at the Villa Savoye; James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and lastly, The Tassell House, Brussels Part II is an easy-to-understand outline of the basics of colour theory and its underlying science, including optics, prisms, light physics, and colour wheels. It addresses such topics as the symbolism and psychology of colour, as well as more practical matters of pigments and dyes
Ethel Rompilla is a professor of colour and an associate dean of the New York School of Interior Design in Manhattan. Prior to her educational work, she was a designer with the firm of Hellmuth Obata Kassabaum Architects in New York and a collaborator with furniture designer Norman Diekman. The recipient of numerous awards for her teaching of colour, she is also a practicing interior designer.
Very nice, but more of a textbook. L. K. Royet This book has some lovely interiors and color combination ideas, but it's more of a textbook and has many pages devoted to color spectrum charts and the science of color. I read about it in a well-known home decorating magazine which described it as one of the best books for decorating with color, but I really found it a little too technical. If you are a design student, it would pro. Ronald Parent said A good beginner's handbook. This book is good for those who have limited background in color theory and want a concise history of color. Most of the book discusses color from cave to modern and contemporary periods culminating with applications to decorating. The color plates are good examples of the content being presented. Certainly a good handbook for a beginner.. One Star It was a wasting money.