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"A decade-by-decade deconstruction of the hues and shades that constituted the groovier aesthetics of the last century." -- Dwell
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PANTONE, the worldwide colour authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of one hundred 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 colour gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products and fashion and carefully match them with official PANTONE palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues..
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Excellent coffee table book for designers and those who enjoy colour in their life. This was a great purchase as a present and went down particularly well for those who want inspiration.
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A sad disappointment
8 Dec 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Pantone: the Twentieth Century in Color
20 Feb 2012
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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.
Fascinating
9 May 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
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 .
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