Living Colors: A Designers Guide to 80 Essential Palettes from Ancient to Modern Times

by Margaret Walch and Augustine Hope

Book Overview

A consummate guide to color, this indispensable, spiralbound volume displays 80 color schemes -- drawn from a variety of different mediums, from architecture and apparel to paintings and pottery, across a range of historical periods -- each individually presented, described, and illustrated in a handy, gatefold format, with representative four-color images and actual printed chips for matching against the project at hand. From the dominant reds of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811805581
• ISBN13: 9780811805582
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 11.1" x 10.0"