PDF The Color Scheme Bible Download
- Author: Anna Starmer
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- ISBN: 9781770850934
- Category : Color guides
- Languages : en
- Pages : 0
Describes how colors interact to affect the ambiance and atmosphere of a room.
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Choosing colors for your home can become an overwhelming and confusing process—there is just so much on offer. Love Color will help you to bring your favorite colors to life by successfully making all those challenging decisions. Renowned international color expert Anna Starmer takes you by the hand and guides you through this lavishly illustrated rainbow world of color combinations, teaching you everything you need to know about hues, tones, accents, and foundation colors along the way. Start by simply choosing a color you love, then take your inspiration from our accessible and practical palettes to create your own color combinations. This book also includes removable color chart booklet so you can note and match your perfect colors anytime you are out and about.
Change the way you see color forever in this dazzling collection of color palettes spanning art history and pop culture, and told in writer and artist Edith Young's accessible, inviting style. From the shades of pink in the blush of Madame de Pompadour's cheeks to Prince's concert costumes, Color Scheme decodes the often overlooked color concepts that can be found in art history and visual culture. Edith Young's forty color palettes and accompanying essays reveal the systems of color that underpin everything we see, allowing original and, at times, even humorous themes to emerge. Color Scheme is the perfect book for anyone interested in learning more about, or rethinking, how we see the world around us.
Create a beautiful home When it comes to planning and decorating your home, even experienced designers sometimes get it wrong. Now, you can choose the color scheme you want and be sure of a perfect result. This accessible and easy-to-use guide puts thousands of color combinations at your fingertips. It features: Hundreds of color combinations, organized by room and then by color, with harmonious, contrasting, and accent shades Reference photographs of bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, and kitchens that show the effect each color scheme has on the room The full Benjamin Moore color range, complete with reference numbers for easy identification, sourcing, and buying
Enhanced with a "Color Directory" of palettes and their variations, this guide provides tips and suggestions for working with neutral colors, selecting a color scheme, understanding the effect of light on color, layering neutrals, and more.
A comprehensive guide to 180 effective combinations of color and texture with side-by-side swatches including flooring, paint colors and accents, fabric for furnishings and drapes, and surface colors, textures and materials.
The first lifestyle book to show groups of colors inspired by nature and how they work on the interior walls of 26 homes. Kaufman's colors are distinctive in that they are designed to capture the nuances of color in nature. The authors reveal their paint-mixing techniques, and recipes for five neutral Donald Kaufman paints are included. Illustrations.
Aimed to fashion students and designers, Palette Perfect is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the universe of colour combinations, the moods and atmospheres they evoke and how we associate particular places and emotions to special colours. Each chapter explores a particular mood and describes the corresponding feelings and color combinations, using as examples exquisite photographs of objects, still-lives, landscapes, interiors and fashion. Atthe end of each chapter, a wide variety of palettes representing the chapter’s particular mood or atmosphere is included.