An Atlas Of Rare and Familiar Colour
An Atlas Of Rare and Familiar Colour
This is a first for Simple Shape - a book*. A staggeringly wonderful book. If you like colour, if you like collections of things, if you like stories and anecdotes, if you like typography and graphic layouts, this book is an absolute must for you.
The blurb: ‘The Straus Centre for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museum, specialising in the conservation of works on paper, paintings, sculpture, decorative objects and archaeological artefacts, possesses over 2500 of the world’s rarest pigments. Visually excavating the extraordinary collection, one inaccessible to museum visitors, Atelier Editions’ kaleidoscopic monograph examines the contained pigments, paint-binding media and organic source materials’ providence, composition, symbology and application within the larger field of chromatics.’
[*it’s important to acknowledge that contrary to our principal of stocking designs that are made in Britain and Ireland this is not printed in the UK. It is however such a strikingly wonderful book with such exceptional production values that we decided it was acceptable to include it in the Simple Shape collection.]
Notes: Paperback 18cm x 24cm
224 pages including 200+ art plates
