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Color Palettes: Atmospheric Interiors Using the Donald Kaufman Color Collection

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Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter

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Even if you know what your favorite colors are, you may be unsure about covering your living space with them. Yet with the right approach, colors can greatly enhance--even create--the visual and emotional appeal of any room. Properly chosen, color can make a smaller room seem larger, a cavernous space seem cozy; it can add structure or introduce simplicity. Drawing on a palette of 26 full-spectrum colors, this book demystifies color properties, explaining how to plan a palette that will work wonders throughout a home. Learn how intensity, light and shadow, background tones, contrast, and architectural details all play a part in a successful color scheme. Find the colors for your walls, doors, and trim that will make everything in the room come alive. By adapting ideas from this beautifully photographed book, you can create an interior you love, enlivened with the colors that are both right for the space and for your own personal style. --Amy Handy


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.94
EAN: 9780609601440
ISBN: 060960144X
Label: Clarkson Potter
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1998-03-17
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Release Date: 1998-03-17
Studio: Clarkson Potter


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Color: Natural Palettes for Painted Rooms
• Color and Light: Luminous Atmospheres for Painted Rooms
• Paint and Color in Decoration
• Farrow & Ball
• Perfect Neutrals: Color You Can Live With


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Excellent - If you understand color and art -
I understand why many readers have given this book a thumbs down; readers need a fine art background and strong understanding of color theory to follow this book. You must also understand the concept of full spectrum color mixing in order to "get" this book. (An artist does not use "brown" paint or "green" paint out of the tube, but mixes several hues to achieve a rich and realistic color.)

This book is addressed to the fine art/interior design audience, dealing with the following concepts in relation to interior space and paint color: full spectrum color, natural light in relation to color, cool/warm juxtaposition, value, intensity, contrast, balance, visually linking spaces to push/pull from space to space, choosing color based on the space, available light, ceiling height, room size, room function, etc.

This is a book to be READ, not just flipped through for decorating ideas. (Some books are great for just flipping through but this one isn't. If you are looking for a book to flip through for "decorating inspiration" then this is not your book.) This book boasts carefully written text along with beautiful spaces; historic, simple, subtle, bold, airy, strong, artful.

Along with the beautiful photography of many historic and high-end spaces this book explains WHY color choices were made. -- Bottom line: If you read the text, you may learn something about color which in turn will allow you to create a space you love.

Loved this book! 5 stars.

"Atmospheric" ? -
Well, this book was a big waste of money. If you want to live with all the "atmosphere" of a brown paper bag, buy this. If you want to put color into your home, don't.

Real color for real life -
This book is very good for those that realize normal colors exist. I can't decorate a home like a magazine because I live on earth. Color Palettes helps provide information on how to paint and decorate a home for those that can't afford $25k a room for bright reds and blues. It provides excellent suggestions and pictures for basic colors. I am very satisfied and highly recommend Color Palettes.

Colors that aren't boring but are livable -
The person who wrote the review saying she was trying to get away from builder beige may not understand what these colors look like in person. They are anything but typical and boring. Donald Kaufman understands how mix colors with enough depth and luminosity that a neutral feels beautiful and not blah. I think Suzanne Butterfield's book is prettier and explains his precepts even better than his own books. I have a DKC blue in my living room and a DKC green in my dining room and I love them. The paint companies would like you to think that you should try bolder colors, but they're hard to choose and they're not all beautiful colors you'd want to live with. The DKC (and also Martha Stewart) palettes are limited for a reason. Not every color out there will look good up on your walls.

Sadly old looking -
This book is old looking and is not giving me the inspiration and help I was looking for. I'm trying to get away from my "builder beige" house so the idea of "atmospheric interiors" sounded great. Unfortunately, this author seems to think that "atmospheric interiors" ARE beige or variations thereof. Depressing, dated.

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