Color in Interior Design CL

Create dazzling color schemes for any indoor space. You'll quickly sharpen your color skills--and open the door to a more rewarding and profitable career with John F. Pile's Color in Interior Design. He takes the mystery out of working with color, showing you step-by-stephow to plan color relationships in an organized and systematic way...prepare color schemes for interiors...make color charts...select materials...put together color samples...work with additive and subtractive color...understand the psychological impact of color...usecolor in functional spaces...and solve a wide range of practical color problems. This hands-on color design tool packs illustrations of the best color work by well-known professionals--plus a survery of color in historic interiors that will guide you through restoration andadaptive reuse projects.

Introduction.Color in Interior Design.Human Vision.Systematic Study of Color.Additive and Subtractive Color.Abstract Color Charts.Color Schemes Developed According to the Theory of Color Harmony.Color Schemes Developed Through Practice.Translation of Color Charts Into Realization in Actual Materials.Analysis of Color Schemes Illustrated in Photographs.Psychological Implications of Color in Interiors.Theory and Custom in the Use of Color in Various Functional Spaces.Color in Historic and Traditional Interiors.Methods of Work.Color 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 Color Charts Suitable to a Wide Variety of Interior Spaces.