Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, d cor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. This vibrant volume takes the social temperature of our recent history with the panache that is uniquely Pantone.
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"A decade-by-decade deconstruction of the hues and shades that constituted the groovier aesthetics of the last century." -- Dwell
"With more than 200 images of art, fashion, products, and decor, color expert Leatrice Eiseman and color consultant Keith Recker identify 100 years of color influenced by historical and cultural milestones. Both well-known and seldom-seen art illustrates the trends.... Most decades have eight palettes presenting a broad spectrum of color contrasts with an entertaining text that touches on countless cultural events.... As the century draws to a close, many images prompt a rush of memories as colors recall the spirit of the times." -- Communication Arts
"Prune and Gray Dawn infused Edwardian parties. Trekking Green and Saxony Blue helped color-code the World War I home front. Blue Bell gingham and Poppy Red slippers made The Wizard of Oz. In this visual feast for color nerds, hue gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify the shades that shaped our collective color palette." -- Fast Company
"Pantone: The 20th Century in Color by Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker is more than just a gorgeous coffee table book. It is a walk through the kaleidoscope of colors that appear on appliances, house walls, carpeting, furnishings, and more. It's a look back at the entertainment and historical events that influenced the colors in today's homes. Homeowners who want an accurate period decor will find this book inspiring." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Pantone: The 20th Century in Color (Chronicle Books), looks at how color and cultural history affect each other, and find their way into our homes. Authors Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker...use a curatorial approach in discussing each decade's most prevalent colors and why they might have become popular. It's an unusual lens on the last century: What was happening in society literally colored our lives, through upholstery, wall paint, rugs, and other textiles and accessories." -- Associated Press
"PANTONE: The Twentieth Century in Color is as much an ultimate treat for color-lovers as it is a fascinating and uncommon lens on familiar cultural history, a vibrant volume among the year's finest design-and-beyond books." -- TheAtlantic.com
"Luxuriating over the names and choices of paint colors--Rubine Red, Rhodamine Red or Warm Red?--is one of the joys of going to the hardware store, even if you're only there to find a missing screw for the air conditioner and not a new shade for the living room walls. For anyone who relishes that trip down the chip aisle, salivating over Purple Opulence and Moonless Night, Pantone: The 20th Century in Color is a must-give. What surprises, however, is the larger historical picture that the hefty tome creates. The colors are organized by decade and by timely reference, including the fashion, television, news, art and design that inspired them." -- Oprah.com Holiday Gift Guide
"Iconic images from each decade and the color palettes they inspired--a trip down memory lane." --House Beautiful
"A gorgeous compendium of color trends spanning the twentieth century (with naturally some sly winks into our own 21st century). It's marvelous to leaf through or read in greater depth." -- Salon.com
"A fascinating look back." -- HOW
"With more than 200 images of art, fashion, products, and decor, color expert Leatrice Eiseman and color consultant Keith Recker identify 100 years of color influenced by historical and cultural milestones. Both well-known and seldom-seen art illustrates the trends.... Most decades have eight palettes presenting a broad spectrum of color contrasts with an entertaining text that touches on countless cultural events.... As the century draws to a close, many images prompt a rush of memories as colors recall the spirit of the times." -- Communication Arts
"Prune and Gray Dawn infused Edwardian parties. Trekking Green and Saxony Blue helped color-code the World War I home front. Blue Bell gingham and Poppy Red slippers made The Wizard of Oz. In this visual feast for color nerds, hue gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify the shades that shaped our collective color palette." -- Fast Company
"Pantone: The 20th Century in Color by Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker is more than just a gorgeous coffee table book. It is a walk through the kaleidoscope of colors that appear on appliances, house walls, carpeting, furnishings, and more. It's a look back at the entertainment and historical events that influenced the colors in today's homes. Homeowners who want an accurate period decor will find this book inspiring." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Pantone: The 20th Century in Color (Chronicle Books), looks at how color and cultural history affect each other, and find their way into our homes. Authors Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker...use a curatorial approach in discussing each decade's most prevalent colors and why they might have become popular. It's an unusual lens on the last century: What was happening in society literally colored our lives, through upholstery, wall paint, rugs, and other textiles and accessories." -- Associated Press
"PANTONE: The Twentieth Century in Color is as much an ultimate treat for color-lovers as it is a fascinating and uncommon lens on familiar cultural history, a vibrant volume among the year's finest design-and-beyond books." -- TheAtlantic.com
"Luxuriating over the names and choices of paint colors--Rubine Red, Rhodamine Red or Warm Red?--is one of the joys of going to the hardware store, even if you're only there to find a missing screw for the air conditioner and not a new shade for the living room walls. For anyone who relishes that trip down the chip aisle, salivating over Purple Opulence and Moonless Night, Pantone: The 20th Century in Color is a must-give. What surprises, however, is the larger historical picture that the hefty tome creates. The colors are organized by decade and by timely reference, including the fashion, television, news, art and design that inspired them." -- Oprah.com Holiday Gift Guide
"Iconic images from each decade and the color palettes they inspired--a trip down memory lane." --House Beautiful
"A gorgeous compendium of color trends spanning the twentieth century (with naturally some sly winks into our own 21st century). It's marvelous to leaf through or read in greater depth." -- Salon.com
"A fascinating look back." -- HOW
About the Author
Pantone, LLC is the world-renowned authority on color. Pantone's color systems - used in digital and print publishing, fashion, plastics, architecture, interiors, and paint - are the standard languages for accurate color communication.
Leatrice Eiseman is the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, a forecaster, consultant, author, and director of Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training. She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Keith Recker is a color trend consultant for Pantone, and editor and founder of HAND/EYE magazine. He lives in Shelter Island, New York.
Leatrice Eiseman is the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, a forecaster, consultant, author, and director of Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training. She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Keith Recker is a color trend consultant for Pantone, and editor and founder of HAND/EYE magazine. He lives in Shelter Island, New York.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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I teach color theory in a major design school in California, and I have been eager to find a good source of decade by decade palette information for the 20th century. I am sad to say that this isn't that book. It is written from a fashion point of view, with grand sounding pronouncements about arbitrarily chosen artifacts. And, it is a Pantone book, so its primary purpose is to promote Pantone (A system invented in 1963, two thirds of the way through the 20th century), rather than provide insight into why certain hue combinations became popular. There is some visual entertainment to be found here, to be sure, but overall this is a lost opportunity.
37 of 43 people found the following review helpful
By Hard to fool
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Like so many oversized books, this one is woefully over-produced. While dividing it into decades is a useful device, miniscule type for the text and skimpy pictures, both in quantity and size, made this a real disappointment for me. I never check out anything in a bookstore before I buy at Amazon, but if I had seen this, I would not have purchased it. There are two things I love above all else: colors and the English language. Both get short shrift here.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Robin Benson
Format:Hardcover
'The 20th century in color' seems an incredibly slim premise for a book and so it turns out. Really just a collection of color photos and graphics tipped into the pages. There seems to be no objective criteria for the choice of images, their significance or how they are used. Each spread has a large photo on the right-hand side yet so many of these are just not worth using big because of poor quality or blandness: page 163 has a soft focus PR shot of Don Johnson and Philip Thomas from Miami Vice; page 149 an equally soft focus John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever; a badly cropped and uncolorful shot Kurt Cobain is on page 175.
The authors have written some very generalized historical copy to go with the images and this text seems to rely on what pictorial material was available for each mini essay, so a series of pictures from the past are included even though they have no particular historical relevance. The authors, it seems, have written several equally light-weight books clustered around a Pantone theme.
The fact that I picked up a copy really cheaply suggests to me that the title has no substance or sales and was quickly dropped into the Close-out bin.
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The authors have written some very generalized historical copy to go with the images and this text seems to rely on what pictorial material was available for each mini essay, so a series of pictures from the past are included even though they have no particular historical relevance. The authors, it seems, have written several equally light-weight books clustered around a Pantone theme.
The fact that I picked up a copy really cheaply suggests to me that the title has no substance or sales and was quickly dropped into the Close-out bin.
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By vlo
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Good source of color inspiration. The book have good visual information and give you a vast ideas for color combination
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Fascinated by the Pantone approach to color so I bought this book mainly for amusement but I have turned to it again and again when deciding on pallets for projects. Not a definitive reference by any means, but useful none the less.
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Some of their color schemes seem not to be really accurate to the movement or style being discussed. For instance, in discussing the Martha Stewart palette, they select an atypical magazine cover that uses some fairly lurid pinks and purples instead of the typical Martha jadite green and sand palette. They manage to cover the 1980s with no inclusion of aqua, and neglect the turquoise of Southwest. They seem to hit on the actual sources of color for each era but a lot of the selected palettes seem edited to conform to the Pantone range rather than reflecting the actual color schemes. Some of the source material also seems edited to provide a very limited and not necessarily historically accurate range of colors.
By Neight
Format:Hardcover
I saw this in a paper store. I feel in love with it. This book has been one of the best resources for my graphic design. It provides endless inspiration.
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By Becky
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I think it will be fun to look over the whole of the 20th century in beautiful color. I bet my friends who are receiving it will think so too.
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Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color
Классная книга которая в первую очередь будет интересной для тех кто занимается архитектурой, дизайном интерьеров и всем что связанно с использованием классических стилей в дизайне... Read more
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Fascinating
This is an excellent book, that illustrates the use of color thru the ages. It is so interesting to see the impact that history , time periods and even politics has on color usage... Read more
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Items arrived on time and were in expected condition. I have no complaints whatsoever about the level of service I received. I would recommend!
Published 14 months ago by IPA1740
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Gorgeous
This book is gorgeous. It's full of descriptive text and fascinating images.
A great gift book, or something you'll want to keep for yourself!
A great gift book, or something you'll want to keep for yourself!
Published 20 months ago by mjr
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