Interior Color By Design, Volume 2: A Design Tool for Homeowners, Designers, and Architects [Hardcover]

Jonathan Poore (Author), Eric Roth (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2005 | Series: Interior Color by Design (Book 2)

Interior Color by Design 2 is an upscale primer on color—possibly the most important design element used in decorating interiors. Effective color selection can be a powerful element in any design. This book takes the mystery out of the color application process.

Included are more than 250 color samples to mix and match and experiment with to achieve different looks that suit any style of decor. Beautiful color photographs bring key concepts to life and make them easy to understand and easy to apply to any room in a home or office.

The book is packed with information on planning color relationships, preparing color schemes for interiors, making color charts, selecting materials, putting together color samples, and working with additive and subtractive color. The author also discusses the psychological impact of color and how color can enhance functional spaces and solve a wide range of practical problems.

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About the Author

Jonathan Poore is an architectural designer, illustrator, and writer. His work has appeared in The Journal of Light Construction, The Naturally Elegant Home by Janet Marinelli (Little, Brown), The New York Times, Old-House Journal, Progressive Architecture, and other publications. He provides color consulting in both residential and commercial settings, and enjoys weaving color integrally into all aspects of design.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592530729
• ISBN-13: 978-1592530724
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #916,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interior Design Student, January 11, 2007

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RETIREMENT DIVA (ALBANY, NEW YORK United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Interior Color By Design, Volume 2: A Design Tool for Homeowners, Designers, and Architects (Hardcover)

For anyone who wants a basic, practical, concise, no nonsense understanding of color theory, this is the book for you. I found the examples in Chapter 3 most helpful when I designed rooms with specific color schemes. It defined each scheme type, breaking down the cool and warm tones in each and showed full pages of examples for each category. Color being such an integral component of our everyday lives, this book is definitely a necessary addition to a reference library for any color applications such as interior/exterior structure, gardening, and wardrobe design.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Color Me So-so, February 17, 2008

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This review is from: Interior Color By Design, Volume 2: A Design Tool for Homeowners, Designers, and Architects (Hardcover)

This text spoke to me louder online, then when I actually received it in the mail. Although I bought this book as a gift for a young inspiring decorator, I did review it briefly before wrapping the holiday paper. First, my intial attraction to this product was its title and the layout/composition of the text cover. This medium-sized book (image online has a sense that it is larger, maybe because of its width, than it is) contains the foundation of color basics, and the online synopsis for "volume two" seemed more intereting than the other volumes in the series. I had hoped for a more generous showing of color photo examples, but the included photos do seem to highlight the text decriptions adequately. Second, I did not buy volume 1 or any additional volumes, but I have a sense that the publisher or author could have merged the others' content into one stronger text. With a quick read as my only resource, the book was lacking something: some excitement, some movement, some color! From my advantage point, the book delivers the basics of color and provides an adequate resource, but, in the future, I would not buy the accompanying volumes.