Vital Color: Color Themes for Every Room
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Book Description
Color is the most important decorative aspect for any room, but knowing which colors work together can be difficult. Whether you want a complete theme or simply wish to add a dash of color to an existing scheme, Vital Color is packed with inspirational ideas for introducing color into every room.
Joanna Copestick and Meryl Lloyd guide you through basic lessons in color theory and explore the fundamentals of color and light, space, texture, materials, proportion and paint, and show how different colors influence a room's atmosphere. Armed with this information you can now apply color to your home-walls, floors and furniture-to create just the right mood.
The book is organized into five main color groups-Linen, Paper and String; Chocolate, Amber and Silver; Ice Cream, Sherbet and Biscotti; Sea, Sky and Driftwood; and Red Wine and Roses. With inspiring large-scale photographs of whole rooms combined with guidance on incorporating soft furnishings and other accessories to add that indefinable finishing touch, there is a color scheme for every taste.
Vital Color is invaluable for home decorators, giving the confidence and know-how to transform any home with color. With 200 color photographs, useful color swatches and a directory of suppliers, you practically can't afford not to use Vital Color.
About the Author
Joanna Copestick is an established writer specializing in interiors and design. She is the author of many interiors books, including The Family Home, And So To Bed, and Choosing and Using Lighting. She is also the co-author of Natural Decorating and Contemporary Decorating, and with Meryl Lloyd, Smart Storage. She lives in England, where she has formed an interior design partnership called Domain. Meryl Lloyd is an art director and designer who has worked with some of the most influential authors and designers in the fields of interior design and the decorative arts. She has helped create successful books for a number of prestigious illustrated-book publishers around the world, including Smart Storage, which she co-wrote with Joanna Copestick. Tom Leighton works all over the world photographing interiors and lifestyles for magazines and newspapers such as Homes and Gardens, The World of Interiors, Elle Decoration, The Sunday Times, and Italian Casa Vogue. His natural style is also sought after by companies such as Laura Ashley, Marks and Spencer, and Dulux. He took the photographs for Junk Style (also published by Ryland Peters and Small).
Vital Color: Color Themes for Every Room,Joanna Copestick,Meryl Lloyd,Tom Leighton,Ryland Peters & Small Ltd,1841724319,Color in interior decoration,Decorating,Decorating - General,Home Improvement / Construction,House & Home,Interior Design - General
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