Description
| Product ID: | 9788419220370 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | Living Colours: Discovering their Language to Understand and Use them in Decorating your Home |
| Authors: | Author: Massimo Caiazzo, Silvia Botti |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Interior design, decor and style guides, Interior design, decor & style guides |
| Description: | A penetrating book on colour theory and the humanexperience of colour with technical tools, simple rules andpractical advice about how we can understand and usecolours in our homes, presented in an easy-to-read andunderstandable way. How do we learn to speak the language of colours? How dowe move with ease and confidence through a maze of infinitepossibilities? How do we create a colourful, harmonious andbeautiful home? In answering these questions, this bookprovides technical tools, simple rules and practical adviceabout how we can use colour decoratively and effectively inour own homes, bearing in mind the different variables to betaken into account, which are presented in an easy-to-readand understandable way. It explores the many facets of colourtheory and the secret lives of colours, taking the reader on akaleidoscopic journey through the amazing world of colours,their origins and their idiosyncrasies. We learn why colourgrabs our attention and fascinates us to the point of seduction.We are shown how colour influences the way we perceivespaces, how to handle colour combinations, how to balancecolour and light, and the relationship between people andcolours throughout history. Ultimately this penetrating bookon the interaction of colours and the human experience of themmakes clear how adding colour to the environments in whichwe live can be a momentous gesture of consciousness andfreedom, an act of love towards ourselves and the people wecare about. |
| Imprint Name: | Hoaki |
| Publisher Name: | Hoaki |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-09 |