Choosing Colors: An Expert Choice of the Best Colors to Use in Your Home
by Kevin McCloud
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This beautiful and unique reference provides an unrivaled mine of inspiration and ideas for anyone wishing to create a colorful new look for their home or garden In this stunningly produced guide, internationally renowned interior designer Kevin McCloud puts together over 1,000 color chips arranged in over 80 palettes. Each palette--which includes anywhere from 6 to 16 color swatches--forms a blueprint for a unique decorative scheme. A palette based on old Chinese silk, for example, is seen show more reinterpreted in a contemporary New York apartment. Plus, each palette features gorgeous photographs that bring the color scheme to life, along with invaluable advice and tips for using the colors to transform a room. Readers will also find manufacturers' paint references and numbers, lists of suppliers, and much more. The ultimate color sourcebook "From the Hardcover edition." show lessTags
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Kevin McCloud is a writer and broadcaster and one of the world's foremost authorities on domestic architecture and design. He has written several books and is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. He also runs a design practice and among other things, presents Grand Designs, a successful television show in the United Kingdom
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- Nonfiction, Home & Garden, Art & Design, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 747.94 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Interior design / Glassware / Furniture Specific decorations [formerly Colours in Interior Decoration]
- LCC
- NK2115.5 .C6 .M4 — Fine Arts 3600-(9990) Other arts and art industries Decorative arts Interior decoration. House decoration General. History, etc.
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- 7 — Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish
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