I don't have a favourite colour creating the Vitra Colour & Material Library
Ten years ago, the designer Hella Jongerius began a research project for the furniture company Vitra to study the properties and possibilities of colours, textures, finishes and materials. This long-term project has resulted in the Vitra Colour & Material Library, which is dedicated to the estab...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Gestalten
2016
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| Edición: | 2nd printing |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009059389708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Alice Rawsthorn
- Color authorship. A personal approach ; Colour and perception ; Subjective system ; Colour author: Rietveld ; Colour author: Le Corbusier ; Colour author: Girard ; Colour author: Panton ; Colour author: Hella Jongerius ; The pigment ; Colourful blacks ; Research and experiments ; Colours and daylight ; Colour and its surface ; Colours and objects ; Colour and Vitra ; The Polder Sofa as the kick-off ; Inside colours ; The search for a system ; The colour wheel ; The four colour worlds ; Lights ; Greens ; Darks ; Reds
- Textiles & other materials. Textiles are a tactile, flexible piece of colour ; The loom as the first computer ; Design process ; Simultaneous and successive contrasts ; Micro-engineering ; Starting with the yarn ; Industrial parameters ; A love-hate relationship ; A textile signature ; Tailor made ; Skin ; Duotone ; Hopsak ; Eames Aluminum Group ; The pathmaker ; Domino effect ; A diverse textile vocabulary ; Maize ; Aura ; Leather ; Wood ; The icon
- Designers. The designers ; Treasures of the past ; Charles & Ray Eames ; The Eameses on black ; Hella Jongerius on whites ; The plastic palette ; Jean Prouvé ; Verner Panton ; Maarten van Severen ; Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec ; Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby ; Hella Jongerius ; Jasper Morrison ; Alberto Meda ; Antonio Citterio ; Konstantin Grcic ; Sevil Peach
- The Vitra colour & material library. The library as a tool ; A smart system of interlocking colour wheels ; Signature colours ; Bridge colours ; The ebb and flow of colours ; Organising an organism
- The colour recipes. Let's start colour cooking ; Recipe one: Colours are personal ; Recipe two: Colours are powerful organisers in a space ; Recipe three: Warm and cold greys cover a wide range of tones ; Recipe four: Instability is a quality ; Recipe five: Upholstery textiles add a signature ; Recipe six: Material makes a colour ; Recipe seven: One colour is no colour ; Recipe eight: The size of a colour patch or colour field is important ; A never-ending process.
