Color for Interior Design

by Ethel Rompilla, New York School of Interior Design

A comprehensive introduction to the impact of color and the ways in which color can be strategically applied to enhance an environment features a history of interiors from a color perspective, an outline of color theory and science, and a guide on how to use color for decorating and special effects. 20,000 first printing.

Genres: Interior Design

224 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2005

About the author

Ethel Rompilla is a professor of colour and an associate dean of the New York School of Interior Design in Manhattan.

Reviews

[Christina Baehr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very helpful, but the prose didn't exactly sing. Good balance between practical advice for how to use colours in interiors and a surprisingly detailed review of how it's been done through western history.

[False · Rating 3 out of 5]

A comprehensive introduction to the impact of color and the ways in which color can be strategically applied to enhance an environment features a history of interiors from a color perspective, an outline of color theory and science, and a guide on how to use color for decorating and special effects.

The best sentence, in the entire book (in my opinion) was regarding color in terms of it's hue impermenance before learning how to chemically induce colors to sustain over time in their true intensity, "...paints that proved fugitive, fading over time." I've never heard of paint or color being referred to as "fugitive."

I scanned a few plates of rooms that for some reason don't appear through Google.