Color in Interior Design
Published on 1. October 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-07-050166-9 (ISBN)
Description
A guide to the use of colour in professional interior design. The book aims to make specifying colour schemes of interiors easier, and provides explanations of colour physics, colour harmonies, analogous schemes, complementary schemes and fuctional schemes.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30 halftones, 250 four-colour illustrations, glossary, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-07-050166-9 (9780070501669)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Colour in interior design; human vision; systematic study of colour; additive and subtractive colour; abstract colour charts; colour schemes; developed according to the theory of colour harmony; colour schemes developed through practice; translation of colour charts into realization in actual materials; analysis of colour schemes illustrated in photographs; psychological implications of colour in interiors; theory and custom in the use of colour in various functional spaces; colour in historic and traditional interiors; methods of work; colour problems; special situations (open interiors, projected light, variable interior functions, other art displayed in interiors); examples of interiors from well known designers; portfolio of examples of colour charts suitable to a wide variety of interior spaces.