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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Super I bought this book. It is a nice book. It gives a broad review of last century color tendencies, but it is not a specialized book for in depth research, for instance, but we don’t always need to perform expert advanced research. Make a search in the book section on Amazon.com for “Pantone DBR106 The 20th Century in Color”, I don’t know why, but you will find the same book for only $20 ($8 less)!
Pantone: the Twentieth Century in Color 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…
Five Stars Love it! Beautiful book in perfect condition. Great for designers and artists to check out some color eye-candy.