The Anatomy of Colour: The Story of Heritage Paints and Pigments

ISBN-13: 9780500519332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str.

Patrick Baty

Opis

Why were primary colors popular in postwar kitchens? Why did the Art Deco era prefer clean lines and pastel shades? This comprehensive illustrated history of the use of color and paint in interior decoration answers these questions and many more.Drawing on his huge specialist archive, historian and paint expert Patrick Baty traces the evolution of pigments and paint colors together with color systems and standards, and he examines their impact on the color palettes used in interiors from the 1650s to the 1960s. He charts the creation in paint of the common and expensive colors made from traditional earth pigments between 1650 and 1799. He then explores the emergence of color systems and standards and their influence on paint colors together with the effect of industrialized production on the texture and durability of paints. Finally, Baty turns his attention to twentieth-century color standards. Woven throughout the authoritative and revealing text are specially commissioned photographs of pages from rare color reference books.Reproductions of interiors from home decor books, dating from every era, are included throughout, highlighting the distinctive color trends and styles of painting particular to each period.

Recenzje

'Patrick Baty is the most influential of our paint experts, whose breadth and depth of knowledge is unrivalled' - Homes & Gardens

Spis treści

Avant Propos by Josef & Anni Albers - An Introduction to Historical Colour - PART I. Interiors & The Use of Colour 1650-1799: i) The House Painter & the Colourman; ii) Traditional Pigments; iii) Traditional Paints; iv) Traditional Brushes - PART II. Interiors & The Use of Colour 1800-1899: i) Colour Systems & Standards; ii) Industrialization of Paints and Pigments - PART III. The Standardization of Colour 1900-1959: i) Colour Standards 1900-1939; ii) The 1930s Colour Palette; iii) Colour Standards 1938-1959; iv) The 1950s Colour Palette

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Historian of architectural paint and colour Patrick Baty works as a consultant in the decoration of historic buildings and is proprietor of 'Papers and Paints' in London. He has been employed by Dulux and Little Greene to develop ranges of traditional paint colours for English Heritage, and he regularly lectures on the subject of paint and paint colour in 18th- and 19th-century interiors.