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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/25042-8.txt b/25042-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6141d6a --- /dev/null +++ b/25042-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2750 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Color Value, by C. R. Clifford + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Color Value + +Author: C. R. Clifford + +Release Date: April 11, 2008 [EBook #25042] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COLOR VALUE *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Anne Storer and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +Transcriber's Note: (TN: --) in text = comments added by Transcriber. + + + * * * * * + + + + + Color Value + + _By_ C. R. CLIFFORD + + _Published by_ CLIFFORD & LAWTON + 373 Fourth Avenue, New York + + + + + Copyrighted, 1907 + By Clifford & Lawton + + Fourth Edition + + GROLIER CRAFT PRESS, INC., N. Y. + + + + +FUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONS + +LIGHT, COLOR, FORM, PROPORTION +AND DIMENSIONS + + +Whatever is good in interior decoration is the result of consistent +relationship between Light, Color, Form, Proportion and Dimensions. The +choice of Color should be guided by the conditions of Light. The beauty +of Form and the symmetry of Proportion can exist only by a balance with +Dimensions. + +Therefore, apart from any knowledge of historic or period decoration, +effective or successful work must observe the technical laws governing +conditions. + + +#LIGHT# + +1. The white light of the sun is compounded of an almost innumerable +number of color elements, as shown by the phenomena of the rainbow or by +experimenting with the prism. (See ¶ 7.) When a ray of sunshine passes +through a glass prism it is decomposed or separated, and if the +prismatic colors are received upon a white screen you will find on the +spectrum among the colors generated a pure blue, a pure red and a pure +yellow. These are the primary colors, and it is necessary when thinking +color to bear these prismatic colors in mind as standards. + +2. Color is an internal sensation originating in the excitation of the +optic nerve by a wave action which we call light. + +3. The theory of light, the wave theory, is based upon the assumption +that throughout all space there is an infinitely thin medium called +ether. Scientists differ as to what this may be, but its movements +constitute light, a reflection from a luminous body. + +4. Everything which we see is visible because it either emits light, +like a flame, or reflects light. + +5. A piece of black cloth upon a white plate reflects but a small +proportion of the light. The plate reflects a large proportion. A piece +of black velvet reflects less light than black cloth and gives the +effect of absolute blackness, or an empty and dark space. + +6. In practical demonstrations the study of color will be confusing +unless it is understood at the outstart that pure prismatic colors can +seldom be found in manufactured pigments, hence any demonstration of the +theory of color composition is usually unsatisfactory. + +7. The theory which brings out of a ray of sunshine the disunited +prismatic colors carries with it the deduction that before separation +these colors constitute white light; but it must be manifest to even the +superficial reader that such colors are mere spectrum colors--vision +colors--and any amalgamation of material or pigment colors, so far from +producing white, produces almost black. + +8. The theory that red and yellow make orange, and that a red and blue +make violet, is correct; but if one attempts to demonstrate the theory +with pigments, one is confronted not only by the lack of standard +manufactured colors but by impurities, adulterations and chemical +reaction in the pigments. The adulteration may not be perceptible in one +primary color, but it is manifest when that color is brought into action +with another primary, for it is seldom that a pure secondary results. + + +#COLOR NOMENCLATURE--HARMONIES# + +9. Color nomenclature includes primary, secondary and tertiary colors, +and innumerable hues, shades and tints. All these colors bear relations +to one another, either relations of analogy, or relations of contrast. +(See ¶ 18 and ¶ 19.) + +The Circle Diagram I shows the manner in which the various colors are +formed. (See also Diagram III.) + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM I] + +The third circle shows how slate, citrine and russet are made. For +instance, slate is one part of violet and one part of green. Hence, a +tertiary color is made of equal parts of two secondaries. + +The outer circle, buff, sage and plum, can be analyzed in the same way. + +This Diagram I is arranged to show not only component parts of a color, +but the parts that properly harmonize. + + +#CONTRASTS# + +10. In music it is an established fact that certain notes used in +pleasing combination produce sounds we call harmonies. The moment that +more than one note is struck, there is danger of discord, and when ten +notes resound to the touch of the player, they must be the right notes, +or they jar upon the sensibilities. In the use of color the same +immutable law applies. + +11. In Circle Diagram II the letters RV mean reddish violet, being a +violet having more red than blue in its composition. BV means bluish +violet, being a violet having more blue than red in its composition. BG +means bluish green, being a green having more blue than yellow in its +composition. YG means yellow green, being a green having more yellow +than blue in its composition. YO means yellowish orange, being an orange +having more yellow than red in its composition. RO means reddish orange, +being an orange having more red than yellow in its composition. Thus we +may advance from red to yellow by graduations almost imperceptible, by +the addition of yellow, to a reddish orange, and so on gradually to +orange, continuing on to yellowish orange, finally revealing pure +yellow. + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM II] + +12. The contrasting color at any stage may be determined by proceeding +in a direct line across the circle: Red has for its contrasting color +green; hence, reddish orange would have for its contrasting color a +bluish green, for the simple reason that if red contrasts with green +and orange contrasts with blue, the color between the red and the orange +would contrast with the color between the green and the blue. Let us +determine the contrasting color for crimson. Crimson is simply a red +slightly tinged with blue. If red contrasts with green, a shade a little +to the left of red slightly tinged with blue would contrast with a shade +a little to the right of green slightly tinged with yellow. In other +words, crimson, RV, would contrast with yellowish green, YG. Determine +at what point of the circle any color that you have in mind will come, +and the contrasting color would be immediately opposite. + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM III] + +13. The harmony of analogy consists of the harmony of related colors or +tones of one color. (See ¶ 17.) + +14. The harmony of contrast consists of colors in no way related. As an +example of the harmony of analogy, we would mention red and orange, +because both of these colors have ingredients in common, red being one +of the two component parts of orange. As an example of the harmony of +contrast, we suggest red and green, because there is nothing in common +between the two, red being a primary color, and green a secondary, +composed of the other two primaries, yellow and blue. (See ¶ 17.) + +15. Green is called the complement of red. The complement of blue +would be orange, because orange is formed by combining the remaining +primaries, red and yellow; and the complement of yellow would be violet, +because violet is composed of blue and red, the other primaries. + +16. In Diagram II we have arranged at opposite points the primaries 1, +the secondaries 2, the tertiaries 3, the quaternaries 4. + +But Diagram III goes further into the subject. + +It is easy to understand the composition of secondaries, but it is not +so easy to know the tertiaries and quaternaries. (See also Diagram I.) + + +#CONTRAST ANALOGIES# + +17. Diagram III is of the utmost value to the colorist, illustrating not +only the composition of color, but showing the origin of each secondary +from the two primaries, the origin of each tertiary from two +secondaries, and of each quaternary from two tertiaries. It shows by +groupings the harmonies of analogy or related colors; also the harmonies +of contrast: By moving on the board one color on one line to another +color upon another line, like the moving of a knight in a game of chess, +and confining the moves always to adjoining lines, like yellow to +violet, violet to citrine, citrine to plum, plum to brown. Yellow and +violet are true contrasts, the one color having nothing in common with +the other. The citrine and the plum, however, are approximate contrasts. +For greater convenience, we have numbered the contrasting colors A's and +B's. Absolute contrast is where the two colors have nothing in common. +For composition purposes, however, citrine and violet may be considered +contrasts, or correctly speaking, contrast analogies. (See ¶ 19.) + +18. A harmony of contrast means the utilization of a primary color with +its complementary, or a color in conjunction with another color in no +degree related: a primary with a secondary. But when we soften these +contrasting colors by the addition of white we have in the lighter tints +a scale of chroma that is a form of analogy. + +19. All combinations of secondary and tertiary colors, while apparently +harmonies of contrast (the tertiary being made by the composition of two +secondaries), constitute, in fact, contrast analogies, because by +analysis we find that all tertiaries possess color components occurring +in the apparently contrasting secondaries. (See Diagram III.) + +20. The harmony of contrast, literally, can only occur in the pure +primary colors juxtaposed to the pure secondary colors, for in no case +does the color formed by the combination of the two primaries have +anything in common with the third primary; while a tertiary composed of +two secondaries invariably has qualities possessed by the third +secondary. + +21. In a room which is small or dark, the light tints in harmonies of +analogy are advisable. + + +#PROPORTIONS# + +22. In the use of one color with another of contrasting character the +question frequently arises, what proportion of each should be used to +obtain the best effect? Illustrative color books show usually samples of +color of the same size, leading one unconsciously to the error that +contrasting colors should occupy the same surface dimensions. + +23. In every room there must be a prevailing or dominant color, and the +use of a contrasting color must be limited to proportions which give +simply a pleasing emphasis. Let us assume that a room has a deep frieze +pronouncedly green. To treat the rest of the wall in red of a direct +contrast would be ineffective. + +24. If a rule can be applied we would say that no strong normal color +should be used in large surfaces. If we were dealing with pigments we +would say that if one-sixth of a side-wall is devoted to a frieze in +green, the balance of the wall space should be treated with the same +amount of red, mixed with the same amount of gray. + +25. For a room that is small and well lighted the fresh tints are not +as desirable as the gray shades or tertiaries in conjunction with +secondaries. + + +#COLOR IN LARGE OR SMALL ROOMS# + +26. For a large room well lighted, yellow, red and orange in delicate +shades are not as desirable as orange, violet and russet in light +shades. This rule, however, may be reversed for a large room that is +dimly lighted. + +A superabundance of light gives an uncomfortable glare. + +27. One may mechanically obtain harmony of analogy in proper proportions +for the treatment of a room or a design by following the guidance of +Diagram I. It will be noted in this diagram that the inner circle is +blue, red and yellow, the primary colors. + +The second circle is composed of the secondaries; the third circle, the +tertiaries, and the outer circle, the quaternaries. + +There is a nice distinction in the combination of primaries for the +formation of secondaries, and exact proportions are quite necessary. + +An orange, for instance, would be off shade if it did not consist of +half red and half yellow, but in the making of the quaternaries, which +are, at best, gray shades, exact proportions are not necessary. + +Nevertheless, in Diagram I we have observed exact proportions in order +to make our demonstration clear. + +The harmony of analogy is the combination of colors related, but the +relationship must be displayed in proportions consistent with the origin +of each and every color used. + +Let us assume that the prevailing note in a room, in either the +side-wall or floor, is sage. + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM IA] + +We can tell by drawing lines from the center of Diagram I to the +extremities of the space marked sage that there is a little blue and a +little yellow, some green and slate and citrine used in the composition +of sage, and hence the use of these colors constitutes the harmony of +relationship or analogy. + + +#COLOR PROPORTIONS# + +28. But to arrive at proportions we must reduce the circular table to a +geometrical table. We must straighten out the lines so that the exact +proportions are apparent. We need not confuse the reader by mathematics, +but to establish our theory we produce the Diagram IA, and it will be +here seen that the relative proportions existing in the segments of the +circles have been observed in the triangles. + +Thus we have thirty-two right-angled triangles. + +Sage occupies fourteen-thirty-seconds of the entire composition; slate +occupies five-thirty-seconds; citrine, five-thirty-seconds; green, +six-thirty-seconds; blue, one-thirty-second; yellow, one-thirty-second; +and these colors, to observe the proper harmony of analogy in a room, +should be used in the proportions above indicated. + +Sage should be in the preponderance; citrine and slate should occupy +nearly one-sixth of the entire composition, green about one-fifth, and +the whole should be picked out with touches of sharp blue and sharp +yellow, representing each one-thirty-second. + +Let us take, for instance, a room that is in white woodwork, and apply +the sage to the walls and the slate to the floor, and lighten the sage +with citrine and lighten the slate with violet, and intersperse orange +and green in a way permitted by the proportions at our command. When the +work is completed we find a harmony of analogy which can be then +relieved by touches of the primitive colors, blue and yellow, in the +proportions shown. + +29. Good examples of contrast color effects may be found in the +following series of combinations: + +PROPORTIONS OF COLOR ANALYSIS FROM +ASSYRIAN TILES. + + Example No. 1. + + Blue-Green 60 + Greenish-Yellow 8 + Orange 6 + Purple-Brown 6 + White 20 + --- + 100 + + No. 2. + + Blue 35 + Yellow 30 + White 15 + Dull Red 10 + Black 10 + --- + 100 + + No. 3. + + Blue 60 + Deep Yellow 20 + Light Yellow 10 + White 10 + --- + 100 + + No. 4. + + Pale Yellow 34 + Green 27 + Blue 25 + Red 6 + Gold 4 + Black 2 + White 2 + --- + 100 + + No. 5. + + Black 63 + Yellow 17 + Green 9 + Red 4 + Light Red 3 + Blue 3 + White 1 + --- + 100 + + No. 6. + + Green 36 + Blue-Green 24 + Yellow 14 + Red 11 + White 10 + Dull Red 3 + Black 2 + --- + 100 + + No. 7. + + Green 36 + Blue-Green 24 + Yellow 14 + Red 11 + White 10 + Dull Red 3 + Black 2 + --- + 100 + + +#BLACK--WHITE--GRAY# + +30. We do not wish to be understood as stating that the work of the +colorist is solely mechanical; but we would emphasize that the +influences of color are very largely the result of studied proportions. +The basis upon which one operates must be soundly constructed upon the +theory of scale, and scale is mechanically determined. If red is +lightened by the addition of white, or darkened by the addition of +black, it is removed to another scale, and can only harmonize by +contrast with its complement by adding to green the same amount of white +or black that has changed the character of the red, and this should be +mathematically accurate. + +31. To place white by the side of a color heightens or intensifies the +tone of that color. To put black beside a color has the opposite effect. +It weakens the color. Every woman looks better in white, hence white is +the universal wedding gown, the universal party dress for children, and, +wherever practical, the universal Summer dress for adults as well. White +is worn universally by men and women next to the face, in collars or in +neckwear, and the reason for it is that the contiguous white intensifies +whatever color they may possess. Black, on the other hand, lessens the +color or lowers its tone. + +32. Gray is a medium between the two. While it renders an adjacent color +less brilliant, it takes to itself at the same time a tint that is a +complement of that adjacent color. In other words, gray by the side of +green appears faintly pinkish. + +33. Black is always desirable as an associate with luminous colors. +Black does not associate as well with two colors, one of which is +luminous and the other sombre, as when associated with two luminous +colors. + + ORANGE YELLOW YELLOW + BLACK BLACK BLACK + RED ORANGE RED + + YELLOW GREEN ORANGE + BLACK BLACK BLACK + VIOLET YELLOW GREEN + + _The green being yellowish and the violet reddish._ + +White is preferable when associated with a luminous and a sombre color. +Thus, + + RED ORANGE RED YELLOW + WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE + BLUE BLUE VIOLET BLUE + + ORANGE GREEN GREEN YELLOW + WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE + VIOLET BLUE VIOLET VIOLET + + _The violet being bluish, the green yellowish._ + + +#ROOM COMBINATIONS# + +34. The harmony of analogy is a subject that is little understood. It +may be color sequence, progression, development or succession. + + [Illustration: Showing Four-Color Combinations. + DIAGRAM IV and DIAGRAM V] + + [Illustration: #SEQUENCE OF HARMONIES# + DIAGRAM VI + As these twenty-one sections are arranged, one has the layout for a + suite of seven rooms; following the top line across in a light scale, + the harmony is complete; following the center line across in a normal, + the harmony is complete; so also with the bottom line in a lower scale. + Follow the colors diagonally and you find they are repeats, or very + close to repeats--red, russet, red, for instance; violet, violet, + violet; blue, slate, blue; green, green, green; yellow, citrine, yellow; + orange, orange, orange. To the colorist the combinations here suggested + are full of inspiration.] + +Thus we may combine red, green and blue by starting with crimson and +maintaining the following sequence: Crimson, red, scarlet, orange, +yellow, greenish yellow, green, bluish green, blue, violet, and with +added red get back to crimson. + +A room or a series of rooms may run to all colors and be still a harmony +of analogy if the sequence or succession is gradual. + +35. No more delightful harmonies can be imagined than those provided by +nature. One may start with the brown of the earth and run into several +shades of green, and from that touch upon yellow, and from yellow to +orange, and from orange to red, and red to violet, and violet to the +blue of the sky. Or one may follow the colorings and the proportion of +colorings in flora and never go astray. (See ¶ 22.) + +36. In the application of color to the home nothing is more pleasing +than the harmony of sequence; the coloring of all rooms must be in +sympathy with contiguous rooms. (Diagram VII.) (See ¶ 34.) + +37. All rooms are subject to the influence of a north or a south light, +or much or little light, and the colorings must be considered +accordingly. The ceiling and the upper parts of a wall require more pale +colors where more light is needed. On the floor, however, where the +greatest light falls, a little black may be added to soften the tone. + +38. Red and green are sharply contrasting colors; violet and yellow and +blue and orange sharply contrast, and while their combinations may be +used in adjoining rooms, it will be seen that in Diagram IV these +contrasting tones are not in contact, but by their arrangement form +analogies of contrast combinations. + +39. Yellow, orange, red, violet, blue and green are related; orange, +russet, violet, slate, green and citrine are related; red, violet, blue, +green, yellow and orange are related. Viewing the ceilings, the +side-walls or the floor, there is the harmony of progression that we +observe in the tinting of a flower. Viewed collectively the harmony is +the same. + +40. To illustrate further our point we would take the ceiling line. We +start with yellow, a primary color; orange possesses yellow; orange +likewise possesses red, the adjoining color; violet possesses red, and +it likewise possesses blue. On the side-wall, russet possesses orange, +and it also possesses violet; it is the tertiary color made of these two +secondaries. Slate is made of green and violet, and is thus also related +to citrine. + +We do not wish it understood that these colors are to be applied flat, +but simply in the predominating expression. (See ¶ 27.) + +41. The value of the diagram is obvious when one considers that in no +particular is there a break in the sequence; but if we wish a harmony of +analogy in a room, or a harmony of related parts, and wish the adjoining +room to be in absolute contrast, we simply adopt the red, violet and +blue for one room, and the green, citrine and orange for another; or the +orange, russet and violet for one room, and the blue, green and yellow +for the other. If, however, the sequence of color is desirable where we +move from one apartment to another, and the eye is pleased by a gradual +changing color, we can adopt any of these combinations in the order as +presented. + +42. A vital point in the use of color, regarded usually with +indifference or totally misunderstood, is the Unity of Composition to be +preserved in the treatment of a series of _floors_ in a house; for on +each floor of a house the conditions of light vary. As we ascend the +stairs we find each floor requires an altered treatment, because of the +added light given from the skylight. (See ¶ 37.) Moreover, in the +arrangement of a floor the relation of one room to another is frequently +so influential that no one room should be treated without due +consideration to the adjacent apartment. (See Diagram VIII.) + +Too frequently the whole question of color is dismissed when the matter +of north or south exposure is discovered, but the north room on the +lower floor of a house is by no means so well lighted as the north room +of the fourth or fifth floor, and the scale of color which would lend +warmth to such a room would be weak in a more exposed apartment. +(See ¶ 30.) + +43. Where the artist has but one room to consider there is little scope +for his application of color knowledge. He must frequently compromise to +meet the conditions. But presuming that he must treat a floor +through, he should adopt a Unity which will apply harmoniously to all +the rooms and hallways. + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM VII] + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM VIII] + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM IX For Key to Numbers see Diagram VII.] + + +#CONTIGUOUS HARMONIES# + +44. For the lower floor he must arrange his colors so that while they +moderate the direct glare of a sunny exposure or brighten the +cheerlessness of a north light, they will also form a composition that +pleases when seen from a point of common observation. + +45. On the upper floors the scale of color should be gradually softened, +for the yellow or ivory tints that are pleasing on the first floor would +be harsh and glaring where there is greater light. Exterior conditions +must be borne always in mind. + +46. Recalling that the primary colors are yellow, red and blue, and that +the secondary colors are orange, violet and green, and that the tertiary +colors are russet, slate and citrine, all with many tints and shades, +let us arrange a series of five rooms seriatim, so treating ceiling, +side-wall and floor (See Diagram IX) that in passing from one room to +another they will be in sequence of color harmony--each complete from +floor to ceiling and all in harmony along the ceiling lines, the wall +lines and the floor lines. + +Let us take the suite of rooms suggested in Diagram IX. We must consider +desirable colorings in all of the rooms to be treated, and so far as +possible adjust the sequence of treatments, as shown in Diagram VIII, so +that the approach to each room will be in harmonious order as viewed +from any room. We have five rooms to treat. The library happens to be +on the north side, hence we wish to treat it in colorings that supply +the deficiency of sunshine. The hallway is rather dark. The living-room +has only one window, and requires more warmth of color than the +billiard-room and dining-room, which being sunshiny can be treated in +more sombre tones. Therefore we select combination 6 for the hallway. +The one room on the right we treat in No. 1. The rooms on the left we +treat in Nos. 5, 4 and 3. We have, therefore, as we stand in room No. 6, +treated in green, citrine and orange, a view to the right of yellow, +orange and red, which is in harmonious juxtaposition. To the left we +have a glimpse of rooms, the floors of which adjoining the orange floor +of the entrance hall, are yellow, green and blue. The wall spaces +adjoining the citrine wall space of the hall treatment are green, slate +and violet. The frieze lines adjoining the green of the hall treatment +are blue, violet and red--all juxtaposed harmonies. The floors of all +rooms are of one deep scale; the walls lighter scale; the friezes and +ceiling still lighter. If viewed from room 4 the harmonies are equally +effective. + +47. Diagram VII is useful for many reasons. In its present shape it +shows the harmonies of analogy or related parts. To arrange harmonies of +contrast, combine the colors of the first room with the fourth room, the +colors of the second room with the fifth room, the colors of the third +room with the sixth room. (See ¶ 37.) + + +#HARMONIES FOR THE ROOM# + +48. The floor should usually enter into the color scheme as the low +note in the scale. It is the background for the furniture, and should be +deeper than the dado or wainscoting. The wood trims--baseboard, doors, +plate-rails, and everything of that character, except the picture +molding--should be like the woodwork of the furniture. This brings the +woodwork into contrast with the wainscoting (unless the wainscoting be +wood) and into harmony with the side-walls, although the degree of +harmony is far removed. Thus, if the woodwork of the furniture is +mahogany, the wainscoting green, the side-walls pink and gray, we would +find the window trims of mahogany, or imitation mahogany, in harmony +with the side-walls. (See ¶ 51 and ¶ 52.) + +49. I would lay down the rule that the wood trims of a room should +harmonize by analogy with the side-walls where such walls are provided +with a contrasting wainscoting; but if there is no wainscoting, or the +wainscoting be also of wood, then the wood trims and furniture contrast +with the side-wall. + +Substitute green side-wall for the pink, ¶ 48. + +White woodwork is always permissible. Study Diagram VI on page 22. + +50. The picture molding may harmonize with the ceiling. Indeed, a white +picture molding frequently is better than one matching the general +woodwork (See ¶ 37); a dark upper molding, moreover, reduces the +apparent size of a room. + +51. Where black furniture is used, or gold furniture, it will of course +be understood that the wood trims shall not be black or gold; but so +long as they are in harmony, that will be sufficient. White wood trims +are nearly always permissible as a substitute for colored wood. + +52. Tones of gray with soft colorings (See ¶ 32), are always safe. + +To summarize (Note ¶ 37): + +53. In harmonies of contrast the side-walls, the furniture woodwork, +wood trimming, cove, ceiling and the curtains should be related. + +54. The rugs, frieze, wainscoting or dado, furniture upholsterings and +the curtain borders should be related. (See ¶ 49.) + +55. If the curtains have no borders, then the curtains contrast with the +wood trims. + +56. Remember always cove and ceiling should be the palest tint of the +side-wall color, and the rug should be of the deepest contrast to the +side-wall, in harmony with the wainscoting, if there is a wainscoting. +Remember, also, that the colors here prescribed are never to be of the +same scale. The rug or carpet is of the deepest, and the ceiling of the +palest. While certain colors are to contrast, they are not to contrast +in the same scale. (See ¶ 37 and ¶ 40.) + +57. If we find that the tone of color of the wainscoting, for instance, +is a bluish green, the side-wall should be of a reddish orange; for the +reason that if green contrasts with red, and if blue contrasts with +orange, a bluish green would contrast with a reddish orange. + +58. Exception to ¶ 56. Only large or well-proportioned rooms can stand +the diminishing or reduction effects of contrast. In low ceiling rooms, +leave out the contrasting frieze, and let border, cornice and ceiling be +in receding colors. (See ¶ 89.) + +59. We all know that a northern exposure gives a room a deficiency of +sunlight, and the wall treatment should supply this. A southern room, on +the other hand, gives so much sunlight that counteracting wall +treatments in cold color are permissible. + +60. In the color treatment of a room one has either to adopt a harmony +of analogy or a harmony of contrast, and this is a matter which depends +upon so many conditions that it should be carefully considered. +(See ¶ 88 and ¶ 89.) Where a plate-rail is used one must remember that a +great deal of color may be furnished by the bric-à-brac, and that the wall +behind this plate-rail should be of a color in contrast to the contents +of the plate-rail. + +61. When we follow a scheme of _contrast_ the borders should be usually +complements, and if the reader has studied our diagram he will very +readily understand how to determine the exact complementary color. + + +#WALL PROPORTIONS# + +62. The wainscoting or dado should be the same as the top border or +frieze, but of a darker tone. The intermixture of white or black is +always permissible; thus a paper as a side-wall might have as its +frieze the complementary coloring with more white, while the wainscoting +or dado should be the complementary with black added. + +63. The cornice should be lighter than the border, and its members may +show several tints, with the ceiling lighter still. (See ¶ 92.) + +64. As a rule the color of the chair coverings should be the +complementary of the side-walls, and the color of the furniture frames +should be complementary to the wainscoting; so by following this rule we +find that the wainscoting serves as a contrasting background to the +chair frame. + +65. Let us imagine a room wherein the side-walls are of a reddish tint; +the wainscoting, being a complementary color, is of a greenish cast. The +furniture is of mahogany, and in contrast to the wainscoting, while the +chair covering, being greenish in contrast to the chair frame, is also +in contrast to the side-wall. Here we have, then, the color relations of +side-wall, wainscoting, furniture-frames and covering; but it is +undesirable that these tones should be in the same scale. (See ¶ 62 and +¶ 92, also tables pages 42 and 43.) + + { { { _Furniture_: Large pieces, preserving broken + { { { heights. + { { { _Designs_: On walls, draperies and furniture + { { { coverings follow rules of proportion. + { { HIGH { _Color_: Subdued contrasts of somber tones + { { CEILING { picked out in contrasts of gold, red + { { { and orange. Masses of luminous color are + { { { permissible in well-lighted rooms. Borders, + { { { friezes, dadoes and wainscotings may be + { { { used, and a bordered carpet or large rug + { WELL { { in the low tone of the color scheme. + { LIGHTED { + { { { _Furniture_: Avoid high pieces, excepting as + { { { relief to the use of many low pieces. + { { { _Designs_: On walls, draperies and furniture + { { { coverings follow rule of proportion, + { { LOW { using perpendicular stripes to give height + { { CEILING { effect on wall; avoid friezes, wainscoting, + { { { dadoes. Carpet borders may be safely used. + { { { _Color_: Subdued contrast of somber tones + { { { picked out in bright effects; luminous + { { { masses permissible. + LARGE{ + ROOM { { { _Furniture_: Large pieces, preserving broken + { { { heights. + { { { _Designs_: On walls, draperies and furniture + { { { coverings follow rules of proportion. + { { HIGH { _Color_: Softly luminous, soft orange, yellow, + { { CEILING { green, sunshiny colors to give artificial + { { { light, picked out with contrasting color. + { { { Border, frieze and wainscoting may be used, + { { { also carpet or large rugs in the low tone + { POORLY { { of the color scheme. + { LIGHTED { + { { { _Furniture_: Low pieces relieved by some high + { { { pieces. + { { { _Designs_: On walls, draperies and furniture + { { { coverings follow rule of proportion, + { { LOW { using perpendicular stripes to give wall + { { CEILING { height; avoid friezes, wainscoting or + { { { dado; carpet borders may be safely used + { { { in the low tone of the color scheme. + { { { _Color_: Softly luminous, soft orange, yellow, + { { { green, sunshiny colors to give artificial + { { { light, picked out with contrasting color. + + { { { _Furniture_: Small pieces, relieved by small + { { { high pieces. + { { { _Designs_: Small, proportionate to the size + { { { of the room. + { { HIGH { _Color_: Use harmonies of analogy or related + { { CEILING { parts and of a receding character, blue + { { { or gray green, gray predominating; avoid + { { { orange or red, excepting in the + { WELL { { bric-à-brac. Small rugs. Horizontal + { LIGHTED { { effects on walls. + { { { + { { { _Furniture_: Low pieces relieved by small high + { { { pieces. + { { { _Designs_: Small on draperies and furniture + { { LOW { coverings; use perpendicular stripes to + { { CEILING { give height effect on wall; avoid deep + { { { friezes, wainscoting, dado or borders. + { { { _Color_: Use harmonies of analogy or related + { { { parts, of greens or blues, grays + { { { predominating; avoid luminous colors--yellow, + { { { orange or red, excepting in the + { { { bric-à-brac. Small rugs. + SMALL{ + ROOM { { { _Furniture_: Small pieces, relieved by small + { { { high pieces. + { { { _Designs_: Small on wall and fabrics. + { { { Horizontal effects. + { { HIGH { _Color_: White in the woodwork gives artificial + { { CEILING { light; use pale gray colors on wall, + { { { slightly tinted green or yellow, faintly + { { { relieved by red or orange--the stronger + { { { colors only for the bric-à-brac. For the + { { { floor avoid bordered carpets; use small + { { { rugs. + { POORLY { + { LIGHTED { { _Furniture_: Low pieces. + { { { _Designs_: Follow the rule of proportions, + { { { with perpendicular stripes on wall, to + { { { give height effect. Avoid borders on + { { LOW { wall; use small rugs on floor. + { { CEILING { _Color_: A preponderance of white in woodwork + { { { and fresh gray on wall with a touch of + { { { yellow and green in soft tones. + { { { Contrasting colors only in bric-à-brac + { { { and small details. + + +#ROOM PROPORTIONS# + +66. In small rooms harmonies of contrast are unsafe, because contrasts +must involve advancing colors, which make a room look smaller. (See ¶ 86 +and ¶ 90.) Harmonies of analogy are far better; and as frieze, +wainscoting and dado are not recommended in the small room, we suggest +that the furniture woodwork and the wood trims should be of one color +note, unless it is desired that the wood trims should be white; and that +the side-walls, curtains and chair upholsterings should be of a note in +some degree related and of receding color, picked out with just a touch +of contrasting color. (See ¶ 90 and ¶ 91.) + +This contrasting color may be introduced in the accessories, the +pictures, bric-à-brac, flowers (natural or artificial) or books. + + [Illustration: "... pronounced patterns must balance," etc. + (See page 38.)] + + + [Illustration: Broken heights. (See ¶ 75.)] + +#DECORATIVE PROPORTIONS# + +(SEE CHART) + +On the preceding pages we present a quick-reference chart of rules that +should be followed in furnishing rooms under various conditions of Light +and Proportion. + + 67. A large room with high ceiling and well lighted. + 68. A large room with low ceiling and well lighted. + 69. A large room with high ceiling and poorly lighted. + 70. A large room with low ceiling and poorly lighted. + 71. A small room with high ceiling and well lighted. + 72. A small room with low ceiling and well lighted. + 73. A small room with high ceiling and poorly lighted. + 74. A small room with low ceiling and poorly lighted. + +There are two considerations to bear uppermost in mind: Proportions +affected by Color and Proportions affected by Design. + +75. It is easily understood that a large room may be safely furnished +with large pieces of furniture, but where there is a wide expanse of +floor space care must be exercised to secure broken heights: In a +high-ceilinged room the furniture must not be all high; in a +low-ceilinged room the furniture must not be all low. + +Avoid straight line effects in the furniture heights and in the +wall-paper, which, if in pronounced patterns, must balance in +conspicuous wall members and show the broken junctures or bad matchings +in inconspicuous or obscure corners. + + +#COLORS THAT GIVE SIZE TO A ROOM# + +76. The wall and fabric designs must be of a size proportionate to the +size of the room. The color treatment of a well-lighted room must be +subdued to offset the glare of the natural illumination, and the natural +illumination be subdued to soften the color treatment; glare must be +avoided. + +77. Advancing colors are colors which contain red or yellow in the +ascendancy; _receding_ colors are those which contain blue in the +ascendancy. Green in its purity, being half yellow and half blue, is +almost neutral. In the same way violet, being made up of half red and +half blue, is theoretically neutral, although the blue tone is usually +more assertive than the red and makes the color recede. Any color or hue +possesses advancing or receding qualities according to the ascendancy of +red, blue or yellow in its composition. + +78. Orange is an advancing color; so also is violet in the shades +approaching red; green in the shades approaching yellow. + +79. Of the tertiary colors russet is an advancing color, because while +it contains some blue in the violet of its composition, it contains a +preponderance of red and orange. + + +#ADVANCING AND RECEDING COLORS# + +80. Citrine is an advancing color, because while it contains some blue +in the green of its composition, it contains a preponderance of yellow +and orange; slate is a receding color, because while it contains some +yellow in the green of its composition, it contains a preponderance of +blue; in the same way plum may be regarded as an advancing color, +because of its preponderance of red; buff is an advancing color, because +of its preponderance of yellow; sage is a receding color, because of its +preponderance of blue. + +81. The carpet should always be in the low tone, and in a small room a +bordered carpet should be always tabooed. So also should one avoid the +use of one rug so placed that a border of woodwork shows around it, +because this gives the border effect and makes a small floor space look +still smaller. Better use small rugs. The use of a lot of narrow rugs +lengthwise along a narrow room will make the room look all the narrower, +but the same rugs placed crosswise would make a room look wider. + +The diagrams which we have prepared will give even the man who +understands it all a quicker grasp of the points involved. + +82. Width effect and distance effect are obtained best by arranging the +smaller pieces at the farthest points. + +83. It is the same with pictures. While a room should be balanced, and +the pictures placed in a manner to give this result, it is best, where +possible, to keep the larger pictures, larger effects, always near the +eye. The crowding of large pieces at the farthest point diminishes the +apparent size of the room. + + +#FLOOR TREATMENTS# + + [Illustration] + +84. Continuous design in ceiling or carpet weakens the size effect; +hence rugs which break the continuity by being laid across the room +instead of lengthwise are preferable. (See Diagrams and ¶ 81.) + +85. It is a safe rule to do a small or narrow room in harmonies of +analogy or related colors, colors of a light tone and of receding +character. Apart from any effect which color may possess decoratively or +pictorially, its value cannot be overestimated in its application to the +laws of proportion. + + [Illustration] + +86. Borders may be safely used on the wall or on the carpet of any large +room with high ceiling, but wall friezes should be avoided where the +ceilings are low, for they foreshorten the height effect. + +87. We would avoid borders on the floor of a small room to make it look +larger, and we would use wide borders in a large room with a low ceiling +so that the floor may be foreshortened. + +88. One may utilize in a large, poorly lighted room masses of luminous +colors to give artificial sunlight to the room deficient therein, but in +the small, poorly lighted room this treatment should be avoided. + + +#COLOR SCHEMES FOR ROOMS UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS# + + (TN: left page of two page table) + KEYNOTE + #B# #B# COLORS #B# + #A# #Drapery# #A# #A# #Furniture# + #Floor# #Border# #Wood Trim# #Wainscoting# #Side-Wall# #Coverings# + + (Brown + and gray + tones) (Full tones)(Wood tones)(Deep tones)(Soft tones)(Soft tones) + + Brown Yellow Mission Green Red Green + Deep oak + brown Orange Mission Blue Orange Blue + Light oak Green Light oak Violet Yellow Violet + Deep olive Blue Oak Red Green Red + Mission + tones of Violet Mahogany Orange Blue Orange + slate + Deep plum Red Violet toned Yellow Violet Yellow + or tulip + + (TN: right page of two page table) + + #A# #B# #A# #B# #A# + #Furniture# #Frieze# #Draperies# #Ceiling# #Cornice# + + (Wood tones)(Soft tones)(Full tones)(Pale wash tones)(Pale wash tones) + + Mahogany Pale green Red Palest green Pale yellow + Deep oak Blue Orange Palest blue Pale green + Gold, gray or Violet Yellow Palest violet Pale blue + yellow + Walnut gray Grayish red Green Palest red Pale violet + Mission brown Gray orange Blue Palest orange Pale orange + Gold or violet Yellow Violet Palest yellow Pale pink + tone + +Exception 1. The ceiling, where there is no pronounced cornice or cove, +should follow the wall tint. + +Exception 2. Independent of rule, a low ceiling should be in receding +color. + + * * * * * + +It is impossible to tabulate directions for using color without an +understanding of the conditions, the size, light and height of a room. +(See pages 34 and 35.) The above tables relate only to normal +conditions. + +White woodwork can be used effectively in the trims of a room and give +greater light and size. The darker the wood trims the smaller the room +appears. We have left out of consideration the window treatments which, +as a rule, should be of white lace, perhaps overdraped in colored +stuffs. If the room is poorly lighted, it is obviously undesirable to +cut off any light from the window by even laces; the curtains, +therefore, in a poorly lighted room should be draped back. Colored +laces, grenadines or madras stuffs are frequently used to give period +style or color tone, and wherever they are used, such curtains should +harmonize with the wall. So also with the overdraperies to the lace +curtains. + +89. Luminous or advancing colors make a small room look all the smaller; +therefore in small rooms we suggest the use of white woodwork, and in +the color treatment we would avoid contrasts, but would suggest +harmonies of analogy in receding colors, soft grays, greens and blues. +These are not luminous colors and will make a small room look the +larger, while the white will give light effects, and if the room appears +a trifle somber it can be easily relieved by the bright colors of the +bric-à-brac and by a touch of gold here and there on the wall. (See ¶ 66 +and ¶ 85.) + +90. There are cases where a small room has a northern exposure, and +while apparently expedient to treat such a room in warm colors to supply +the deficiency of sunlight, such a course would make a room look +smaller. + +91. Under the circumstances treat the room in light hues, gray +preferred, and get the deficiency of sunlight through some warm isolated +details and in the lace curtains. + + +#THE WALL THE KEYNOTE COLOR# + +92. Our theory of color as applied to room furnishings provides always +that the side-wall is the keynote and this keynote is usually fixed for +practical reasons in sympathy with the furniture; above to the ceiling's +center the note ascends and below to the floor center it descends; it +goes into tints as it ascends and into deeper shades of gray and brown +as it descends. + +If, for instance, blue is the keynote, by adding black you have drabs, +slates or grays for the floor, while if the keynote be red you have +écrus and browns for the floor light or gray, according to the color +scale of the keynote. + +93. It must be understood that in designating a color we do not mean +that it shall be solid or pure, but merely that it prevails. (See ¶ 29.) + +A side-wall may be treated in several colors, but as long as orange +prevails, it follows the conditions of the combination, pages 42 and +43. The factors included in the line designated A are all of one color +family. The factors indicated by B are also family colors. It will be +seen that the A or B colors taken by themselves form HARMONIES OF +ANALOGY; it is only by combining the A's with the B's that we have +HARMONIES OF CONTRAST. + +If a room is to be done in harmonies of analogy, use the A colors alone +or the B colors alone, but never A and B together. + + +#THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLOR# + +94. Whatever may be the charm conveyed by design there is a reason for +it. We can analyze it. + +It has an inherent quality of beauty or historic interest, and there is +a definite and distinct reason for our liking it. + +But the effect of color is exciting or disturbing, tranquilizing or +pleasing, inexplicable and inexpressible, affecting the senses like an +appeal to the passions or the appetite. One might as well explain the +love of sport, literature, art or vice. The sense of color is a nerve +sense, and this sense varies in the individual. We know that colors +which are strongest in direct sun rays, like red and orange, arouse the +normal senses, while the blues and violets quiet. + +Nature provides vast fields of green because favorable in its effects +upon humanity. Experiments prove that men of extreme sensibility exposed +to the influences of red light finally show excitement which gives +muscular development fifty per cent. in excess of the power possessed by +the same subject when exposed for the same period under the influences +of blue light. + + +#TO DETERMINE THE COLOR SENSE# + +Color, like music, while subjected to positive rules of harmony, appeals +to natures according to the responsiveness of their nerve sense, and the +practical decorator in dealing with a customer should discover at the +outstart the character of that nerve sense. Some natures respond to the +normal colors, barbaric colors. Some respond to the softer tints and are +disturbed by the sharper tones. A dulled sense requires sharp contrasts; +a quickened sense is satisfied with the soft gray tones. Apart from any +question of propriety or environment the individual taste for color must +be determined before the individual taste can be pleased. + +A demonstration of four examples in color may serve the purpose of +determining one's color sense. + +First. Combinations of normal primary and secondary colors, (_a_) +arranged in contrasts, (_b_) in analogies. + +Second. Combinations of tones of the above colors, (_a_) arranged in +contrasts, (_b_) in analogies. + +Third. Combinations of tints of the above colors, (_a_) arranged in +contrasts, (_b_) in analogies. + +Fourth. Combinations of the gray (tertiary) tones of the above colors, +(_a_) arranged in contrasts, (_b_) in analogies. + +95. Do not allow your personal color-sympathies to dominate your work. +All colors have their usefulness, for there are occasions when it is +proper they should be used, apart from any question of harmony; one +must consider always the uses of colors, the lights, and the purpose of +the room under treatment. + +96. Nature gives to the dark forest depths great brilliancy of +floriculture, and dark-skinned people indulge unconsciously the same +bright scale of color. But as we come out of the forest and advance in +civilization we use barbaric colorings more discriminately. + +97. We employ gold, orange or yellow for the north room not for inherent +beauty, but for the sense of warmth which they convey to an atmosphere +chilled by the absence of sunlight. We employ receding colors in a small +room that the room may look larger. We employ cold colors in a sunny +room, especially in the summer home, for reasons psychological rather +than æsthetic. + + +#PERIOD USES OF COLOR# + +98. If our furniture is white and gold, it is clearly evident that the +colorings of a room should be soft and harmonious. If we adopt the dark +teakwood of India or the deep brown of Flanders, our color scheme again +changes. The preponderance of white in Colonial rooms was due to +architectural conditions. White illuminates; and in the days when our +ceilings were no higher than seven and a half feet, and our windows were +small, the room needed an artificial light, and white supplied this. + +99. In furnishing an Empire room, the decorators have, little by little, +led themselves to believe that what is known as Empire green is a +distinct shade of green. On the contrary, green was used in the period +of the Empire simply because it was in pleasing contrast with the +mahogany and brass so much used. If the mahogany is dark, a dark green +is desirable; if light, a light green. + +100. Egyptian decoration was full of gold and brilliant coloring, and a +popular form of combination was the triad form: + + Black, yellow and red. + Red, blue and white. + Dark blue, light blue and white. + Cream color, blue and black. + Dark red, medium yellow and blue. + +101. The Greek decorators, who painted in fresco, used white, red, blue, +yellow and black. Natural marbles were much used in green and red and +alabaster, and bronze, gold and silver. + +We see the flat colors of the Greek, Etruscan and Pompeiian age and we +imagine they are typical of the period, but we must consider that the +examples of that period which we now possess are faded and emasculated, +and that the more authentic the example, the more aged it is, and hence +the more weakened in color character. + +The Greeks loved color, and their embroideries were in gold and blue and +Tyrian purple. + +Roman coloring was but a continuance of the Greek, characterized by dark +and rich backgrounds, which were frequently black, red or deep yellow +and dark blue, on which figures and landscapes, or animals, or groups +from still life, were executed in bright colorings of powerful +contrasts. Black and white were used, and later, when the Byzantine +artists and craftsmen found their way to Western Italy, they spread this +love of bold coloring, so that at the dawn of the Renaissance we find a +return to the Greek and Roman coloring, which, however, was modified in +England, Germany and Flanders, according to temperamental conditions. + +102. We find, for instance, some forms of Florentine decoration, full of +yellow, red-yellow, blue-greens and light slate blues. Botticelli used +whites, creams, reds and citrine, with umber tones heightened by gold, +and if we examine carefully the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century +Italian brocades which are preserved in the museums, we discover a great +preponderance of yellow-green as an ornament on dark violet, or light +olive green on dark blue, or dull orange on crimson brown. + +In some of the richest early Italian fabrics we find: + + Purple and sage-green ornaments on indigo ground; outlines in gold. + + Dull crimson, pale blue and chrome yellow ornaments on dark gray + ground. + + Pale yellow-green ornaments on deep amber ground. + + Dark blue-green and light greenish-yellow ornaments on deep crimson + ground. + + Pale greenish-blue ornaments on dark gray-blue ground, with white + and gold picked out in small quantities. + + Emerald green and dull orange ornaments on dark gray-green ground + outlined in gold. + +103. The French Renaissance takes inspiration from the Roman and Greek. + +The Louis XIV is a development of the Renaissance, with a conspicuous +use of gold. + +The Louis XV is an elaboration along the same lines. + +The Louis XVI is a simplification and a return to the classic. + +The Georgian is largely Roman and Pompeiian. + +104. The Adam style was taken directly from the Pompeiian, but in most +cases, instead of having the Pompeiian solid color background with +design lightly executed, the background is in the light color, and the +design dark. To follow strictly the Pompeiian palace style would be too +garish in our modern circumscribed environment. + +105. It is a nice psychological problem to decorate the house in a way +to give true balance to the æsthetic sense. No matter how great one's +admiration for a thing, there is always a final point of satiety at +which the desire needs rest or balance. A woman may love flowers, for +example, but in the season of flowers, when all nature supplies an +over-abundance, the visual sense becomes satiated, and the house +interior that is furnished in cool tints and two-tones gives positive +relief. + +106. On the other hand, floral decorations in the home are the balance +needed to the mind that craves them during the Winter period when there +is a lack of color without. + + + [Illustration: Compare perpendicular and horizontal lines: The angles + and curves which enclose them change their relative equality.] + + * * * * * + +#ILLUSION EFFECT AND EXPRESSION IN THE USE OF LINES# + +107. We very often notice a room which has been carefully carried out +but is utterly lacking in charm. The color seems right, and, considered +in detail, the furniture and the furnishings are appropriate, but the +room lacks effectiveness. + +It is uninteresting. + +It is like a doll face that is, perhaps, perfect in detail, but utterly +devoid of EXPRESSION. + +The artist who paints a portrait is a failure without the ability to +give expression: hence in architecture the acute-angled spires or +arched roofs have the same expression that the "long face" carries. + + [Illustration] + +If we smile, the mouth curves upward; if we grieve, the lines turn +downward. + +108. In festival decorations, joy is expressed by loops, curves and +festoons. + +109. In serious decorations (libraries, studies, church or office work) +straight lines are used; curtains are gathered in plaits so that the +sags and drapes are all out of them; they are drawn. It is the same when +we say of a person: "He looks serious, his face is drawn; it is full of +lines." + +110. The observation, "a broad smile on his face," means literally just +that; the lines extend outward and upward, giving an expression of +breadth and joy to the countenance. + + +#ILLUSION# + +111. A doorway looks wider that has at the top a drapery which crosses +in one complete curved sweep. A side-wall is larger apparently if along +the frieze line long, wide loops or festoons are arranged. The same wall +is more contracted and higher if treated in arrow-point forms of design. + + [Illustration] + +The decorator should study these matters of illusion, for they are +vital to the success of his labor. (See ¶ 116.) + +112. Perpendicular lines contract the wall space and extend the apparent +height of a room; horizontal lines shorten the apparent height of the +ceiling and lengthen the width of the room. (See exceptions, ¶ 119.) + +These straight lines may be used where extremes are needed. (See pages +61 and 63.) + +A short doorway, for instance, looks higher where the portière is hung +in straight folds; so also with a cottage window. + + [Illustration] + +113. Every decorator who handles fabrics, every cabinetmaker who lays +out the woodwork of a room, every stained glass window maker, should +appreciate one fact: A line which is finished at the top or bottom, or +both, with acute angles appears longer than the line that is finished +top and bottom with an obtuse or right angle. It is the same with the +finish of a wall frieze. + +If the wall frieze ends abruptly (Illustration A on page 57), it is +foreshortened; if it is finished by angles (Illustration B), the height +of the room is apparently greater. (See the illustration on page 51.) + +114. It is the same way with curves; given two lines of equal length and +enclose one with convex and the other with concave curves, and the line +enclosed convex will appear longer. + + [Illustration: Treated for Broken Heights.] + +115. In dress a collar brought down to an acute angle in the front of +the waist gives height effect, whereas a perfectly straight collar +around the neck reduces the apparent height and gives width effect. + + [Illustration] + +116. The use of arches should be studied. A space that is arched looks +wider than it actually is, for the eye unconsciously follows the lines +of the arch, and a distance or width effect is the result. The same +space treated with a straight line is quickly bridged. The same space +treated with lines that come to an angle looks narrower, for the reason +that the eye becomes focused by the apex of the angle, and a height +effect, not a breadth effect, is the result. (See page 57.) + +117. This illusion is best shown in the illustrations of the parallel +lines that are crossed diagonally, with the result that the lines no +longer look parallel because of the angles. Nevertheless, they are +parallel, and the lines running diagonally at the bottom of this page +are also parallel. + + [Illustration] + +We present two practical illustrations of illusion in the use of lines. +(See ¶ 112.) They represent the side-walls of two rooms of the same +dimensions, but showing apparently different proportions, the +perpendicular lines making the side-wall look higher and the horizontal +lines making the side-wall look lower. (See page 59.) + + [Illustration: Illustration A.] + + [Illustration: Illustration B. (See ¶ 113.)] + + [Illustration] + +The length of the wall space is shortened, moreover, by the +perpendicular lines and lengthened by the horizontal lines. + +118. No period expresses more clearly the joy of curves as opposed to +the severity of straight lines than that voluptuous period of Louis XV +known as Rococo. It was a profligate era, an era of pleasure, and the +appended illustration of part of a frieze is in no way exaggerated, but +a true example of a common expression. (See page 60.) + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + +119. Distinct perpendicular lines give height effect, but they also +narrow the apparent width of a wall space. It is best to have such line +effects indistinct unless they appear as in the illustration on page 63, +where they are intended to reduce the breadth effect of the pattern and +neutralize a squat tendency. + +Indistinct perpendiculars give height effect, and do not reduce the wall +width. + + [Illustration: (See ¶ 111.)] + + [Illustration: Perpendicular lines, giving height effect.] + + [Illustration: Perpendicular lines, giving height effect.] + + +#COLOR TERMS# + +120. In the study of color and its application authorities differ so +materially that it is not only impossible to reconcile their theories, +but the different terms used to express color thought create +inextricable confusion. + +121. One authority fixes the neutrals as being black, gray and white; +another regards them as those hues or tones which lack definite color, +like quaternaries. Authorities differ, moreover, upon even the +fundamental principles. Chevreuil selects red, yellow and blue as the +primaries; Dr. Thomas Young selects red, green and violet. Helmholtz +selects carmine, pale green and blue-violet; Maxwell scarlet red, +emerald green and blue-violet; Professor Rood agrees with Maxwell; +Professor Church, of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, regards the +primaries as red, green and blue; George Hurst, the English authority, +fixes upon red, yellow and blue, the Brewsterian theory. + +122. One must remember always in studying color that we are treating +with the material, not with the illusion. We are dealing with pigments, +not with prismatic phenomena, and it must be obvious that the only three +primary colors that can be used in a way to produce all other colors are +red, yellow and blue. + +123. Whatever may be the spectrum theories of Sir Isaac Newton, Young or +Helmholtz, for practical reasons we prefer to follow an authority as +eminent as Chevreuil, for years the head of the National Gobelin Works +of France, and a man experienced in the practice as well as the theory +of color. Any effort to fix the character of color and describe it by +periods and epochs will always prove unsatisfactory, for the reason that +terms and expressions have changed with every period since the Egyptian, +4000 B.C. + +124. We think we know purple until we discover that the purple of +royalty, the ermine and purple, the purple of the cardinals' robes, +frequently approximated what we now call carmine. Royal purple and +Venetian blue are mere trade terms. Practical men in the purchase of +things decorative soon discover that color terms convey only individual +impressions and no distinctive qualities that may be relied upon; so +that any effort to fix the color value by periods would be futile. We +may assume that in the age of oak, mahogany, white and gold or walnut +furniture, the fabric and wall colors harmonized with the wood colors, +and to that degree we may fix the period character of color. The moment +that the tone of the woodwork or the light conditions varied, color +character varied also. + +125. We must also bear well in mind that colors which have come down to +us as examples of ancient times have been subjected to the changing +influences of centuries, and have faded and altered. The colors on the +walls of the historic rooms of European palaces have greatly altered. +The flat reds and the deadish blues of the Pompeiian frescoes have been +altered by chemical action during the 1,850 years' burial under the lava +of Vesuvius. We are not justified in judging of the colors of A.D. 79 +by the restoration-examples in 1900. Hence the mere expressions +Pompeiian red, Pompeiian blue, can convey no definite, positive meaning. + + + [Illustration: Fig. 1.] + +#COLOR VOCABULARY# + +126. In music, a tone which is formed by a certain number of vibrations +per second is the same the world over, and each and every tone has a +name; but in color no such standards exist. People have attempted to +formulate a system by denominating the primary colors, red, yellow and +blue, respectively as R, Y and B, and the combinations of these colors +as combinations of letters. For example, red, with varying degrees of +yellow added, is denominated by the letters R R O, or R O R, or O O R. +This system tends to confusion, and is inadequate to express tints and +shades. Various other systems have been devised. Color charts have been +made, and in each system arbitrary names have been assigned, so that +each color may be known by one of several names. The difficulty of +insuring accuracy under these circumstances becomes very evident. + +127. In discussing color combinations, one is usually confused because +the subject is not a tangible expression that can be grasped like the +sound of a note in music. With color charts, every maker has a standard +of his own and the term "red" may mean anything within a wide range; a +yellow-red or a blue-red, the yellow-red perhaps being cherry, the +blue-red perhaps being carmine. An appreciation of the Harmonies of +Contrast or Harmonies of Analogy or Relationship is accompanied by great +confusion because of this lack of standardization. + +128. There is only one true standard of color, and that is the standard +as shown in the prism, and expressed by the spectrum. It is within the +province of any man to determine the proper relationship of color if he +starts with the chart we here present. We fix definitely the three +primary and the three secondary colors, the primaries, red, yellow and +blue, being those indicated by the heavy black lines; the secondaries, +orange, green and violet, being indicated by the broad stipple lines. + +All other lines are the tertiary or quaternary colors. + +If we have clearly in our minds the appearance of the normal red and +yellow, and clearly in our minds the orange that is made up by combining +the two, we ought to be able to fix in our imagination the colors that +come midway between the red and the orange, or the colors that come +nearer the red or nearer the orange. Let us assume we are to select +colors in the harmony of _contrast_. Take a ruler and lay across the +chart and the contrasting colors are always opposite; the direct +contrast of red is green because green is composed of the other two +primary colors, yellow and blue; the contrast of blue is orange because +orange is a combination of the other two primaries, yellow and red; the +contrast of yellow is violet, a combination of blue and red. + +Now, to determine the niceties of distinction, let us take a red that is +a little off shade, a little yellowish; one must determine in the mind's +eye about how much yellow there is in it and, to determine the true +contrast, carry your line across from the point which you think is +represented by the yellowish and you find that it is green with a little +blue added, or bluish-green. + +129. One must also determine the scale of color. The parallel circular +lines on the chart designate four scales, or four grades, of each color, +growing lighter by adding white, to the center; as you add more and more +white the tint becomes more and more light. In determining contrast, be +careful to stick to your scale. Contrasts, to be in harmony, must be +colors of the same scale. + +130. Harmony of analogy or relationship is clearly expressed in the +chart. The family relations of red are the things which go with red. We +may have a harmony of analogy in violet which includes the relations of +red and blue. We must not attempt to carry the family relationship too +far. There is a wide range of variety in these combinations of analogy +because they may include not only all scales of each color from the +darkest tones to the lightest tints but they include tertiaries and +quaternaries. + +Each man must establish his own standard, and by establishing it he +forms unconsciously a very comprehensive understanding of color. It has +never been possible to print a true colored chart because no two copies +of the sheet off the press would be alike. A little more ink or a little +less ink, or a little lighter or a little heavier impression, changes +the values. + +The chart illustrates contrasts of all of the primaries and secondary +colors and the broken colors or hues. In the same way the tertiary or +quaternary colors may be arranged, but for convenience we show the +contrasts as follows: + +RUSSET: + + Tertiary, + 32 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 31 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 17 parts Blue + 30 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 18 parts Blue + 29 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 19 parts Blue + 28 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 20 parts Blue + 27 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 21 parts Blue + 26 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 22 parts Blue + 25 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 23 parts Blue + +SLATE: + + Tertiary, + 32 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 31 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 17 parts Yellow + 30 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 18 parts Yellow + 29 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 19 parts Yellow + 28 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 20 parts Yellow + 27 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 21 parts Yellow + 26 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 22 parts Yellow + 25 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 23 parts Yellow + +CITRINE: + + Tertiary, + 32 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 31 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 17 parts Red + 30 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 18 parts Red + 29 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 19 parts Red + 28 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 20 parts Red + 27 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 21 parts Red + 26 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 22 parts Red + 25 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 23 parts Red + +SAGE: + + Quaternary, + 24 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 24 parts Yellow + 25 parts Yellow, 23 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 26 parts Yellow, 22 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 27 parts Yellow, 21 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 28 parts Yellow, 20 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 29 parts Yellow, 19 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 30 parts Yellow, 18 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 31 parts Yellow, 17 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + +BUFF: + + Quaternary, + 24 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 24 parts Red + 25 parts Red, 23 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 26 parts Red, 22 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 27 parts Red, 21 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 28 parts Red, 20 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 29 parts Red, 19 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 30 parts Red, 18 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 31 parts Red, 17 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + +PLUM: + + Quaternary, + 24 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 24 parts Blue + 25 parts Blue, 23 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 26 parts Blue, 22 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 27 parts Blue, 21 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 28 parts Blue, 20 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 29 parts Blue, 19 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 30 parts Blue, 18 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 31 parts Blue, 17 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + + [Illustration] + +131. One who attempts to make color compositions with no more reliable +guide than taste can expect to accomplish no more than he who in music +possesses a good ear but no musical training. + +132. The note of discord in color is best avoided by an infallible +guide, as the discord in music is best avoided by thorough training in +the law of harmony. The color chart on page 73 has been so arranged that +each of the shades is in exact harmony with the shade directly opposite. + +133. For example, to ascertain the color that is in harmony with the +shade denominated Red-Orange, it is necessary simply to lay a ruler +across the diagram to find the corresponding harmony, which is +Blue-Green. + +134. We know that the primary colors are red, yellow and blue, and that +the combination of any two of these gives a secondary color. The +secondary color is the complement of the remaining third color; thus +yellow and blue form green, and green is the complement or contrasting +harmony of red. Red and yellow form orange, and orange is the complement +of blue. Blue and red form violet, and violet is the complement of +yellow. These are facts we all know. Now, if red is the complement or +contrasting harmony of green, and yellow contrasts with violet, then red +with one, two or three degrees of yellow added will contrast with green +with one, two or three degrees of blue added. + +Assume, for example, that a decorator dealing with a red side-wall +wishes upholsterings in the correct shade of green. He knows he has a +red wall, he knows also that he wishes to use some shade of green, but +without some fixed standard it is impossible for him to do more than +approximate the correct shade of green to use. If, however, he could +compare the red of his wall with his color chart and determine exactly +which of the many shades of red, or which of the many yellow reds, or +blue reds, the wall is toned in, it is a simple process to ascertain the +exact green harmonizing with this red. + +The second great use of the color chart is then an infallible guide to +color harmony, whether analagous or contrasting. + +OLD +SYSTEM| R |RRO|RO |ROO| O |OOY| OY|OYY| Y |YYG| YG|YGG| G |GGB| GB| +------|===|===|===|===|======|===|===|===|======|===|===|===|=====|===|===| +NEW | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10| 11| 12| 13 | 14| 15| +SYSTEM|RED|R 7|R 6|R 5|ORANGE|R 3|R 2|R 1|YELLOW|Y 7|Y 6|Y 5|GREEN|Y 3|Y 2| + | |Y 1|Y 2|Y 3| |Y 5|Y 6|Y 7| |B 1|B 2|B 3| |B 5|B 6| + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + H[A]| |56R|48R|40R| 32R |40Y|48Y|56Y| |56Y|48Y|40Y| 32Y |40B|48B| +NORMAL| 64| | | | | | | | 64 | | | | | | | + LINE | | 8Y|16Y|24Y| 32Y |24R|16R| 8R| | 8B|16B|24B| 32B |24Y|16Y| + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + I[B]|56R|49R|42R|35R| 28R |35Y|42Y|49Y| 50Y |49Y|42Y|35Y| 28Y |35B|42B| + | | 7Y|14Y|21Y| 28Y |21R|14R| 7R| | 7B|14B|21B| 28B |21Y|14Y| + | 8W| 8W| 8W| 8W| 8W | 8W| 8W| 8W| 8W | 8W| 8W| 8W| 8W | 8W| 8W| + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + J|48R|42R|36R|30R| 24R |30Y|36Y|42Y| 48Y |48Y|36Y|30Y| 24Y |30B|36B| + | | 6Y|12Y|18Y| 24Y |18R|12R| 6R| | 6B|12B|18B| 24B |18Y|12Y| + |16W|16W|16W|16W| 16W |16W|16W|16W| 16W |16W|16W|16W| 16W |16W|16W| + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + K|40R|35R|30R|25R| 20R |25Y|30Y|40Y| 40Y |35Y|30Y|35Y| 20Y |25B|30B| + | | 5Y|10Y|15Y| 20Y |15R|10R| 5R| | 5B|10B|15B| 20B |15Y| | + | W|24W|24W|24W| 24W |24W|24W|24W| 16W |24W|24W|24W| 24W | | | + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + L|32R|28R|24R|20R| 16R |20Y|24Y|28Y| 32Y |28Y|24Y|20Y| | | | + | | 4Y| 8Y| 8Y| 16Y |12R| 8R| 4R| | 4B| 8B| | | | | + |32W|32W|32W|32W| 32W |32W|32W|32W| 32W |32W| | | | | | + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + M|24R|21R|18R|15R| 12R |15Y|18R|21Y| 24Y | | | | | | | + | | 3Y| 6Y| 9Y| 12Y | 9R| 6R| | | | | | | | | + |40W|40W|40W|40W| 40W |40W| | | | | | | | | | + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + +A color is indicated by the intersection lines perpendicular and +horizontal. + + [A] This line shows the colors of the normal scale running from Red (R) + to Yellow (Y) to Blue (B) to Red (R). + + [B] This line and all below it show the same primary and secondary + colors lightened by added white. + + +#ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING# + +135. In considering artificial light, we will avoid all efforts to +analyze the different forms of energy, magnetic energy, electric energy, +heat energy, mechanical momentum, radiating energy, and deal with result +rather than with cause and effect. It will be sufficient to state as the +deduction of the scientist that certain waves or vibrations which affect +the fibers of the optic nerve are transmitted by the brain into color. +(¶ 3.) Self-luminous bodies are bodies which produce light. Illuminated +bodies shine by borrowed light, and are distinguished by the different +amounts and quantities of light which they reflect. A dense cloud which +appears nearly black when between the observer's eye and the sun, owing +to the degree of density with which it intercepts the light, may become +brilliantly white when the sun's rays fall upon its constituent +particles, for the light which cannot penetrate the cloud is continually +reflected to and from the surface of its minute parts. Thus it happens +that the lower part of a cloud seen against a background of dark +mountain may appear white, while the upper part may appear dull gray. In +the alteration of reflection we have an alteration of color. A stick of +sealing wax will show in some positions white reflected light, while in +other positions we see only the red. A polished plane furnishes one kind +of reflection, a piece of chalk another. + +136. The decorator has for years past been disposed to defer to the +illuminating engineer in the artificial lighting of a home. But while +the technical man or engineer may have a knowledge of power and energy, +he has not studied the decorative value of lighting. His problem has +been economic rather than psychologic. The illuminating engineer cannot +be expected to appreciate fully the harmonies of color in decoration. + +137. It is the decorator's province to consider not only the power of +light in the furnishing of a house, but the character of the light--not +only its color influence, but the structural character of its +introduction, as affecting these furnishings. It is beyond his province +to determine whether carbon should be replaced by tantalum, osmium or +tungsten to get higher efficiency, but he must understand the effects of +these lights and prescribe accordingly. + + +#ABSORPTION AND REFLECTION# + +138. The architect who designates the number and location of outlets for +the lighting sources, and specifies the candle-power of the lamps, knows +nothing of the ultimate decoration of the house. Very often the +specifications are finished before the color scheme has been decided +upon, and as a result the degree of illumination either falls short of +what is needed in case of dark-colored interiors, or proves excessive +with light-tinted rooms. The architect works from one point, economy, +the decorator from another, æsthetic; while the householder, the +consumer who pays the illuminating bills, cannot comprehend why his +lighting bills increase as his taste for luminous or dark-colored +furnishings is gratified. Many houses are left in the white plaster for +a year or more until the plaster settles. In this condition a small unit +of light is sufficient, but when the decorator completes his work, +adding fabrics and wall-papers which absorb and diminish the light, the +householder, unaware of the cause, notices a material increase in his +bills for illumination. These facts must be understood to be remedied, +and it remains for the illuminating engineer to determine by direct +experiment the value of any light as it affects and influences color, as +well as the value of color as it affects light. It may be assumed +without danger that the softest light is that of the candle, but we are +not living in the candle age, and have to deal with either gas or +electricity as the main illuminating agents. + +139. We have to consider the mercury arc light, the yellow flame carbon, +the white magnetite and titanium arc--all of high efficiency, giving +orange yellow in the flame-carbon to yellow and yellow white in the +acetyline of the tungsten filaments. Then we have the greenish yellow of +the Welsbach mantle, the bluish green of the mercury arc, the yellowish +white of the carbon arc, as well as the clear white of the titanium +arc. + +140. The subject may be divided into three heads: Quality, or +approximation to natural light. Quantity, as demanded by reflection or +absorption. Installation, diffusion or mechanical distribution. + +141. Normal light is the light of general diffusion in daylight, and +when we can find an artificial light that has the character of natural +light we will have what is obviously the best illuminant for the home. +Bear in mind that natural light as it appears out of doors is materially +altered when indoors by the presence of different planes and angles, +which cast and receive various depths of shadow; the quality required is +that which will provide illumination without glare. The sun's rays are +softened and mellowed by the depth of air through which they pass, and +it is this mellowness that is the chief requisite in illumination. + +Good decorative illumination does not mean illumination that reveals +every hidden corner of a room. We need shadows to betray form, relieve +monotony and give depth to the _ensemble_. If in an illuminated area +light is of a uniform intensity, we have a bad effect. The variation of +tone in a fabric is due to the light reaching it from a given point. +Differences in intensity make shadows and tones. + +142. The illuminating engineer treats the home as he treats a public +hall. He ignores the individuality of the room; the ball-room and the +sickroom are lighted alike. He does not always consider the diminished +force of light as it passes through a refracting surface, for it must be +borne in mind that any method of indirect lighting by refraction is apt +to cause a loss of volume. The use of various kinds of globes or lamp +shades must all be considered. A light-colored wall reflects +illumination, a dark-colored wall absorbs it; hence the amount of +illumination is increased or diminished by the color of the walls. + + +#LIGHT EFFECT ON COLOR# + +143. To illuminate a city, with the dull grim environment of streets and +houses, a soft yellow glow will give warmth and tone; the greenish +yellow of the Welsbach or the blue green of the mercury arc may even be +desirable, but the same green or violet rays are ghastly in a house, and +should never be permitted. + +144. The warm glow of the yellow light, while pleasing to the +complexion, is, however, objectionable as disturbing the color +composition of dress or furnishings. A gaslight sends a yellow glow over +all that it reaches, and has the same effect as the introduction of +yellow into every color tint in the room. The walls that are red take on +a scarlet hue; the scarlet ones are yellowed to orange; the blues become +greenish. + +145. In order that the decorator may more readily grasp the subject, we +have arranged a table showing the color changes effected by rays of +yellow, blue, green and violet: + + Orange rays falling on white make it appear orange. + " " red it appears reddish-orange. + " " orange it appears deeper orange. + " " yellow it appears orange-yellow. + " " green it appears dark yellow-green. + " " blue it appears dark reddish-gray. + " " violet it appears dark purplish-gray. + " " black it appears brownish-black. + + Yellow rays falling on white make it appear yellow. + " " red make it appear orange-brown. + " " orange make it appear orange-yellow. + " " yellow make it appear deeper yellow. + " " green make it appear yellowish-green. + " " blue make it appear slaty-gray. + " " violet make it appear purplish-gray. + " " black make it appear olive-black. + + Green rays falling on white make it appear green. + " " red make it appear yellowish-brown. + " " orange make it appear grayish-leaf-green. + " " yellow make it appear yellowish-green. + " " green make it appear deeper green. + " " blue make it appear bluish-green. + " " violet make it appear bluish-gray. + " " black make it appear dark greenish-gray. + + Blue rays falling on white make it appear blue. + " " red make it appear purple. + " " orange make it appear plum-brown. + " " yellow make it appear yellowish-gray. + " " green make it appear bluish-green. + " " blue make it appear deeper blue. + " " violet make it appear bluer. + " " black make it appear bluish-black. + + Violet rays falling on white make it appear violet. + " " red make it appear purple. + " " orange make it appear reddish-gray. + " " yellow make it appear purplish-gray. + " " green make it appear bluish-gray. + " " blue make it appear bluish-violet. + " " violet make it appear deeper violet. + " " black make it appear violet-black. + +146. The pale tints of electric lights, which make every face in a room +look ghastly, will affect quite as disastrously every soft color in the +furnishings. In ordinary gaslight a pair of white gloves looks yellow, +and we have seen Welsbach lamps which threw out a violet-blue +illumination, depressing in the extreme. Under a yellow glow, blues, +greens, violets and purples are greatly changed. Under a violet glow, +yellows and greens are ruined. To see all colors in about the same value +that they possess by daylight one must have a light in which no color +tone is apparent. + +The question as to the disposition and intensity of the lights is of +vital importance, and must be considered with the requirements of each +particular room in mind. + +147. For the drawing-room and reception-room it is desirable that all +parts of the room be evenly lighted, without a pronounced glare in any +particular part of the room. One of the most effective ways of +accomplishing this is by distributing the lights around the room, either +on the ceiling, in the cove or above a wide molding, so that the ceiling +acts as a reflecting agent, and distributes an even tone of light to all +parts. + + +#ILLUMINATION# + +148. For the dining-room and living-room a different plan must be used, +because of the different requirements. The table is usually in such +rooms the chief feature of the furnishings, and it is customary to focus +upon it the main body of light. While this is obviously necessary, the +surroundings must not be ignored; neither is it possible to raise the +center light to such a height that its radiation may reach all parts of +the room, because in so doing the light reaches the eye at an extremely +unpleasant angle. The drop fixture should be low enough to effectively +light all parts of the table, while at the same time its shade should +screen the light from the eyes of the room's occupants. To illuminate +the surrounding parts of the room other lights should be distributed +where they will most effectively supply what further illumination is +required. + +149. For the bedroom or boudoir the location of the lights should also +be subordinated to the purposes of the room, and in addition to +providing sufficient illumination to the entire area, special +illumination should be provided for the mirrors and the dressing-table. +The lights for the mirrors should be planned to illuminate the person +and not the image. + +150. For large reception-rooms in hotels and public institutions the +plan is frequently adopted of having all light provided by small table +lamps with opalescent shades. These provide a medium glow throughout the +entire room that is pleasing, and avoid entirely the garishness usually +associated with such rooms. One of the mistakes of the day is the use of +high-power lights, which are so intense that they require to be screened +or shaded, involving waste of light and concentrating an unnecessary +amount of illumination upon a narrow sphere. + + +#REFLECTIVE POWER OF COLOR# + +The following table will give an idea of the percentage of light +reflected from ordinary wall-hangings and papers: + + Per Cent. + Reflection + + White blotting-paper .82 + White cartridge-paper .80 + Ordinary foolscap .70 + Ordinary newspaper .50 to .70 + Chrome yellow paper .62 + Orange paper .50 + Yellow wall-paper .40 + Yellow painted wall (clean) .40 + Tracing cloth, pale blue .35 + Light pink paper .36 + Blue paper .25 + Emerald green .18 + Dark brown paper .13 + Vermilion paper .12 + Blue green paper .12 + Cobalt blue paper .12 + Black paper 0.5 + Deep chocolate paper 0.4 + French ultramarine blue paper 3.5 + Black cloth 1.2 + Black velvet 0.4 + +151. It is very difficult to select practical artificial illuminants, +because of the various color properties possessed by each. A Welsbach +mantle, which gives a greenish tint, is pretty sure to alter the +character of any color other than green. Incandescent electric light, as +well as ordinary gaslight, contains a yellow tint. + + +#THE COLOR OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS# + +152. In planning or matching colors for a room, it is best to consider +the purpose for which the room is to be used, and match the colors under +the same light conditions that will prevail in the finished room. + +Deep, full colors are less affected by the shadings in artificial +illuminants than lighter tones of the same color. + + ILLUMINANT. COLOR. + + Sun (high in sky) White. + Sun (near horizon) Orange red. + Sky light Bluish white. + Electric arc (short) White. + Electric arc (long) Bluish white to violet. + Nernst lamp White. + Incandescent (normal) Yellow-white. + Incandescent (below voltage) Orange to orange-red. + Acetyline flame Nearly white. + Welsbach light Greenish white. + Gaslight (Siemens burner) Nearly white, faint yellow tinge. + Gaslight (ordinary) Yellowish white to pale orange. + Kerosene lamp Yellowish white to pale orange. + Candle Orange yellow. + + +#ARTIFICIAL LIGHT APPLICATION# + +153. The introduction of light by the medium of a wire, which may be +carried to any point in a room, encourages so many possibilities for +comfort and effect that it behooves us to forget traditional customs +which were established during the gaslight period. The introduction of +gaslight through tubes was a rather complex problem, and the carrying of +the pipes into the room through a main chandelier was the most +advisable constructive form. But we have no need for such cumbersome +fixtures in this day of wiring. + +A mere cord takes the place of an inch pipe. Modern German and Austrian +lighting fixtures frequently are mere pendants, with the cord frankly in +evidence. In this way the lights may be placed wherever needed--at the +head of the lounge, so one may read more clearly by it; close by the +piano; over the tea-table. In fact, supplementary lights to the general +illumination are a convenience that the decorator should consider. + +154. The lighting of a house is a matter so dependent upon æsthetic +conditions that it is never within the scope of the electrician. It is a +problem for a decorator alone to solve. Intense and glaring lights of +unusual power must be avoided. Luminants of low intrinsic brilliancy are +preferable. + +155. The floor is the least important surface for illumination, and has +no reflecting power of value. The walls vary in value according to their +color and surface. With lights radiating upward, however, the ceiling +possesses definite power, and should be considered. + +156. Dark colors absorb light, while white and light colors reflect, and +this must always be remembered; for upon the character of the +decorations and furnishings of various rooms the quantity as well as the +quality of light has serious influence. + + +#POWER NECESSARY# + +157. While the list which we give herewith is based largely upon area, +it may be taken as a basis of calculation for lighting equipment. + +It is estimated that 300 square feet of a hallway requires four +sixteen-candlepower, or eight eight-candlepower units. + +In a room 20 x 20 feet, with furnishings of mahogany and green, broken +up by bookcases and other furniture producing heavy shadows, it is +estimated that twelve eight-candlepower lights are sufficient if worked +into the frieze, and that a reading lamp of not less than +thirty-two-candlepower be used as a drop light. + +Assuming a room is 15 x 15 feet, and furnished in light tones, four +eight-candlepower lamps are ample. + +A living-room 20 x 25 feet, in light tones of color, requires two +thirty-two-candlepower lights, centrally located, and about twelve +eight-candlepower lights. This should provide brilliant illumination. + +A room 15 x 20 feet, in dark wood and hangings, needs eight +eight-candlepower reflector lamps, backed up by six more +eight-candlepower lamps. + +Bedrooms 15 x 15 feet in size, where they are not furnished in deep +colors, should be equipped with two sixteen-candlepower lights. + + +#COLOR CONTROL# + +158. Mechanical lighting is so easily undertaken that it predisposes one +to extravagance. Properly applied, artificial light adds materially to +the charm of a room, but with illumination secured by the mere twist of +the wrist one is prone to ignore the value of shadows and kill the +beauty of light and shade by throwing illumination into the remotest +corners. The danger to good decoration is not only in overlighting, but +in overdecorating, and commercialism naturally encourages this tendency. +The floor is frequently best treated if not entirely covered with a +one-pattern treatment; the walls are frequently most pleasing if done in +several papers instead of one. The most effective room is the one +lighted in various degrees of strength, and while the decorator +unconsciously follows this idea and avoids superabundance of pattern by +using panels, friezes and wainscotings, we believe that each and every +section or part of a room should be treated separately, observing, of +course, a consistent spirit of design, preserving the period style and +the general color effect; we would vary the actual shade of coloring and +the size of pattern according to the dimensions of the wall space it +occupies. The large patterns and the strong colorings which may be +appropriate to an exposed wall are all out of proportion in narrow or +darkened confines. Dark and deep recesses should obviously be treated +differently to advanced or conspicuous spaces. + +159. At a recent meeting of the Illuminating Engineering Society, D. +McFarlan Moore made the following observations: "A few years ago there +was practically no way of changing the colors of the various forms of +lamps, that is, the candle had its color perforce; such a thing as +modifying it was not dreamed of. The oil lamp had its color; the open +burner gas flame its color, the incandescent lamp its color, and the +arc lamp its color. At the present time there are only two ways widely +in use of varying the color; that is, if a person wishes to have a light +of a different color, there are two main ways of getting it. One way is +to get another light source, and the other way is to use a diffusion +globe of some kind, which in any instance is extremely unscientific and +inefficient. Some of the most recent advances in this line are connected +with the flaming arc lamp. There we have an instance where the first +step, at least, was taken toward scientifically controlling the color +value. I refer to placing different chemicals in the carbon and thereby +obtaining a color which can, to a very great extent, be determined +previously. But still it by no means can be said that by means of the +flaming arc lamp the color factor is under perfect control. However, it +is possible now to have the color value under perfect control, and this +is obtained by utilizing a vacuum tube, and by changing the various +gases used in the tube to change the color. This has many advantages, +and from a scientific standpoint it cannot be criticised, as can the +other methods which have been used. For example, if you use a properly +regulated vacuum tube and feed it with air only, a pink light results; +if you feed it with nitrogen a yellow light results, and such a light +can be used for a great many purposes; in fact its range of usefulness +so far as the color is concerned, is about the same as that of the +ordinary incandescent lamp, and therefore can be used by florists or by +clothing merchants, and the distortion is not any worse than that of +the ordinary incandescent lamp. However, it is not by any means claimed +that when a tube is fed nitrogen, that the color is at all near +daylight; it is simply a color which appears about the same as that +produced by the ordinary incandescent lamp. Due to the enormous +radiating surfaces of the tube, the color in day time looks considerably +redder than that of the incandescent lamp because the lamp is extremely +small as compared with the tube. When such a tube is fed with carbon +dioxide at a definite pressure, and at a definite intensity, a light is +obtained that undoubtedly is closer to average daylight color values +than any light which has ever been produced before, and we can almost +say that it is entirely satisfactory. For instance, experts in matching +colors in the largest dye works of this country, men who have tried all +other forms of light, and found them not at all suitable for their uses, +have matched their colors under a vacuum tube supplied with carbon +dioxide and have found after months of practical use that they could not +detect any difference between most delicate lavender shades, when they +are matched at night time under the tube and in day time by daylight, +not direct sunlight." + + +#DRESS AND COMPLEXION# + +160. The nerves of the eye, exhilarated by any pronounced color, +unconsciously observe the complement of that color when turned from it. +The eye accustomed to the red of a woman's dress, unconsciously sees a +greenish cast in the face that is naturally pale, and in the same way +the pallor of a woman's face takes on a tint of red as the complement +or contrast of a green dress. As one's appetite for the thing that is +sweet becomes exhausted by a superabundance of sweets, so the eye +resting upon a mass of red in the dress of a woman fails to appreciate +the red tint in the face, and the face thus juxtaposed becomes pallid. A +red-faced woman often wears brighter red in dress, so that her face may +appear less red. The blue dress gives yellow to the face; the yellow +dress gives blue; these results are altered materially by the +intervention of white between the face and the dress. White intensifies +color. If there is a tinge of pink in the face white brings it out. If +there is sallowness in the face white accentuates it. It is for this +reason that many women wear yellow instead of white at the neck, so that +the yellow of the face becomes less conspicuous by contrast. (See ¶ 31.) + +161. It is dangerous, however, in matters of dress to strictly apply +this rule, because color has a temperamental influence apart from the +purely visual. Some women are positively depressed by certain colors; +such colors are to be avoided, no matter what the deductions of theory. +(See ¶ 94.) + +162. The black dress will make a woman look pale, for the reason that +the black absorbs whatever color there may be in her face. A dark color +has also absorbent characteristics. The lighter the color, the less +absorbent. Hence light greens are preferable to bring out the color in +the face than dark greens, assuming that we are to consider only this +point, which is all that is necessary to consider in house decoration. +Therefore light greens as a background to theater boxes or as a wall +background are always desirable. + + [Illustration: Lighting by wires. See ¶ 153.] + + +#COLOR TERMS# + + BROKEN COLOR. Color changed by the addition of black, + white or gray. + + CHROMA. Color. + + COLD COLORS are colors containing very little, if any, red or + yellow. + + CONTRAST ANALOGIES. Apparent contrasts of secondary and + tertiary colors which have constituent parts that are + related. Thus compositions of citrine and plum are apparent + contrasts, citrine being one of the three tertiary + colors, russet, slate and citrine, and plum being composed + of russet and slate, but in both citrine and plum + there is red, yellow and blue; hence related. There can + be no true contrasts excepting between primaries and + secondaries. + + GRAY. Normal gray is black and white mixed, but quaternary + colors are also called grays, or colors of the dull or + neutral scale. + + HARMONY OF ANALOGY is produced by using related colors. + + HARMONY OF CONTRAST. The juxtaposition of a primary + color, for example, with a secondary made of the other + two primaries. Thus of the primaries red, yellow and + blue, the contrasts would be red and green. Of the two + colors thus forming contrast the one is said to be the + COMPLEMENTARY of the other. + + HUE. Applied to the predominating color in a composition. + + INTENSE OR SATURATED COLORS. Colors that are pure, having + no tint or shade. + + NEUTRAL COLORS. Applied to black, gray and quaternary + colors. + + NORMAL. Intense colors of the prism. Colors of the natural + scale. + + PRISMATIC COLORS are the colors viewed through a prism. + + QUATERNARY COLORS. Made by combining two tertiary colors. + Quaternary colors are plum, sage and buff. + + SCALE. Relates to colors of the same degree of tone. + + SECONDARY COLORS. Orange, green and violet, each a combination + of two primaries. + + SHADE. Produced by the addition of black to a normal color. + + SOMBRE COLORS. Blue, violet and the subdued tones of luminous + colors. + + SPECTRUM. The illusion of color produced by means of the + prism. + + TERTIARY COLORS. Made by combining two secondary colors; + tertiary colors are slate, russet and citrine. + + TINT. Produced by the addition of white to a normal color. + + TONES are the gradations of color by adding either black or + white. + + WARM COLORS or luminous colors are those having normal + yellow or red in the preponderance. + + ADVANCING COLORS. Reds and bright yellow arouse the nerve + sense more quickly than blue or tones of color predominating + in blue. Hence they are called advancing colors. + + RECEDING COLORS. Blue colors or colors in which blue predominate + or the exciting influences of yellow or red are + subjugated, are cold or receding colors. + + + * * * * * + + + TABLE OF CONTENTS + + Paragraph. Page. + + Adjoining Rooms 38 to 47 + Advancing Colors 77, 78, 79, 80, 89 + Angles, Illusion of 113, 114, 115, 117 + Artificial Light, Colors of 86 + + Balance of Pattern 75, 76 + Borders 61, 62, 81, 86 + Bric-à-brac 60, 89 + Black, The Use of 33 + + Color Nomenclature 9 + Complexion 160 + Contrasting Colors 12, 14 to 24 + Contrast Analogies 17 to 20 + Ceiling 37, 42, 43, 93 + Curtains 53 to 56 + Cove and Ceiling 56 + Cornice 63 + Chair Coverings 64 + Colors that Give Size to a Room (See Receding Colors) + Carpet 81 + Color Sympathies 95 + Curves, The Use of 107, 108, 111, 114, 116, 118 + Color Terms 120 to 134 + Chart 127 + + Dress, Depressing Influences 161 + Dress, Woman's 160 + Decorative Illumination 141 + Definitions 89 + Draperies 42, 43 + Decorative Proportions 37 + + Exciting Colors 94, 160 + + Frieze, The Use of (See Wall Proportions, also Room Combinations) + Floors 42, 81, 84, 86, 87 42, 43 + + Gray, The Use of 32, 91, 92 + Guide to Color Harmony 127 + + Harmonies Mechanically Determined 132 + Height Effects 75, 76 + Harmony of Analogy 13, 17, 27, 93 + Harmonies 10 + + Illusion in the Use of Lines 107 to 119 + Intensification of Color 31, 33, 159 + + Joy in Lines (See Curves) + + Lights and Shadows 158 + Lighting a Room, Candle-power Needed 157 + Light Installation 84 + Light, Effect on Color 82 + Luminous Colors (See Advancing Colors) + Large Room, Dark 34 + Low-Ceiling Rooms 58 + Large Rooms 58 + Large, Well-Lighted Rooms 26 34 + Light 1, 8 + + Mixing Colors 8 + + Neutrals 121 + National Types of Color 47, 48 + Nature Colors 35, 96 + North Light 37, 59, 90, 91 + + Proportions in Color + Contrast 22 to 24, 28 to 30, 35 + Pigments, The Use of 22 + Proportions Effected by Design (See Decorative Proportions) + Proportions Effected by Color 77 + Period Uses of Color 47, 48 + Psychology of Color 94 + Picture Moldings 50 + Plate-Rails 48 to 59 + Progression of Color 34, 39 + Prismatic Colors 6, 7, 8 + + Room Combinations 23 to 28 + Rugs 81, 84 + Rooms Under Normal Conditions 42, 43 + Receding Colors 77, 80, 89 + Reflection 5, 135, 155, 156 + + Spectrum 1 + Small Dark Rooms 21 35 + Small Well-Lighted Rooms 25 35 + Sequence of Color 34, 35, 36, 41 + South Light 37, 59 + Side-wall 48 to 57, 92 + Small Room, High Ceiling 35 + Small Room, Low Ceiling 35 + Side-wall as Keynote 92 + Straight Lines, Effect of 107, 109, 111-113, 115-117, 119 + Seriousness in Lines (See Straight Lines) + Spectrum Theories 121, 122 + + Trade Terms Meaningless 124, 125 + Taste in Color, to Determine 94 + + White, The Use of 31, 33, 88, 89, 98, 159, 160 + Wood Trims 48 to 59 + Wainscoting 48 to 57, 62, 93 42, 43 + Width Effects 82 to 85, 87 + Wall Proportions 33 to 34 + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Color Value, by C. 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Clifford + +Release Date: April 11, 2008 [EBook #25042] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COLOR VALUE *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Anne Storer and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p class="notes">Transcriber’s Notes:<br /> +1) Table of contents/index at end as in original.<br /> +2) (TN: --) in text = comments added by Transcriber.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + +<div class="box"> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<h1>Color Value</h1> + +<p class="center"><strong><em>By</em> C. R. CLIFFORD</strong></p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/img1.png" width="150" height="146" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong><em>Published by</em> CLIFFORD & LAWTON<br /> +<span style="letter-spacing: .1em;">373 Fourth Avenue, New York</span></strong></p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center"><span style="letter-spacing: .1em;">Copyrighted, 1907</span><br /> +By Clifford & Lawton<br /> +———<br /> +<span style="letter-spacing: .1em;">Fourth Edition</span></p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><span style="letter-spacing: .1em;" class="smcap"> +grolier craft press, inc., n. y.</span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img3.png" width="600" height="243" alt="page decoration" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>FUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONS</h2> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>LIGHT, COLOR, FORM, PROPORTION<br /> +AND DIMENSIONS</strong></p> + + +<p>Whatever is good in interior decoration is the result of consistent +relationship between Light, Color, Form, Proportion and Dimensions. The +choice of Color should be guided by the conditions of Light. The beauty +of Form and the symmetry of Proportion can exist only by a balance with +Dimensions.</p> + +<p>Therefore, apart from any knowledge of historic or period decoration, +effective or successful work must observe the technical laws governing +conditions.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>LIGHT</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para1" id="para1"></a></p> +<p>1. The white light of the sun is compounded of an almost innumerable +number of color elements, as shown by the phenomena of the rainbow or by +experimenting with the prism. (See <a href="#para7">¶ 7</a>.) +When a ray of sunshine passes +through a glass prism it is decomposed or separated, and if the +prismatic colors +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +are received upon a white screen you will find on the +spectrum among the colors generated a pure blue, a pure red and a pure +yellow. These are the primary colors, and it is necessary when thinking +color to bear these prismatic colors in mind as standards.</p> + +<p>2. Color is an internal sensation originating in the excitation of the +optic nerve by a wave action which we call light.</p> + +<p><a name="para3" id="para3"></a></p> +<p>3. The theory of light, the wave theory, is based upon the assumption +that throughout all space there is an infinitely thin medium called +ether. Scientists differ as to what this may be, but its movements +constitute light, a reflection from a luminous body.</p> + +<p>4. Everything which we see is visible because it either emits light, +like a flame, or reflects light.</p> + +<p><a name="para5" id="para5"></a></p> +<p>5. A piece of black cloth upon a white plate reflects but a small +proportion of the light. The plate reflects a large proportion. A piece +of black velvet reflects less light than black cloth and gives the +effect of absolute blackness, or an empty and dark space.</p> + +<p><a name="para6" id="para6"></a></p> +<p>6. In practical demonstrations the study of color will be confusing +unless it is understood at the outstart that pure prismatic colors can +seldom be found in manufactured pigments, hence any demonstration of the +theory of color composition is usually unsatisfactory.</p> + +<p><a name="para7" id="para7"></a></p> +<p>7. The theory which brings out of a ray of sunshine the disunited +prismatic colors carries with it the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +deduction that before separation +these colors constitute white light; but it must be manifest to even the +superficial reader that such colors are mere spectrum colors—vision +colors—and any amalgamation of material or pigment colors, so far from +producing white, produces almost black.</p> + +<p><a name="para8" id="para8"></a></p> +<p>8. The theory that red and yellow make orange, and that a red and blue +make violet, is correct; but if one attempts to demonstrate the theory +with pigments, one is confronted not only by the lack of standard +manufactured colors but by impurities, adulterations and chemical +reaction in the pigments. The adulteration may not be perceptible in one +primary color, but it is manifest when that color is brought into action +with another primary, for it is seldom that a pure secondary results.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/img5.png" width="500" height="190" alt="page decoration" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>COLOR NOMENCLATURE—HARMONIES</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para9" id="para9"></a></p> +<p>9. Color nomenclature includes primary, secondary and tertiary colors, +and innumerable hues, shades and tints. All these colors bear relations +to one another, either relations of analogy, or relations of contrast. +(See <a href="#para18">¶ 18 and ¶ 19</a>.)</p> + +<p>The <a href="#img6">Circle Diagram I</a> shows the manner in which the various colors are +formed. (See also <a href="#img9">Diagram III</a>.)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="img6" id="img6"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 397px;"> +<img src="images/img6.png" width="397" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">DIAGRAM I</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p>The third circle shows how slate, citrine and +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +russet are made. For +instance, slate is one part of violet and one part of green. Hence, a +tertiary color is made of equal parts of two secondaries.</p> + +<p>The outer circle, buff, sage and plum, can be analyzed in the same way.</p> + +<p>This <a href="#img6">Diagram I</a> is arranged to show not only component parts of a color, +but the parts that properly harmonize.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>CONTRASTS</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para10" id="para10"></a></p> +<p>10. In music it is an established fact that certain notes used in +pleasing combination produce sounds we call harmonies. The moment that +more than one note is struck, there is danger of discord, and when ten +notes resound to the touch of the player, they must be the right notes, +or they jar upon the sensibilities. In the use of color the same +immutable law applies.</p> + +<p>11. In Circle <a href="#img8">Diagram II</a> the letters RV mean reddish violet, being a +violet having more red than blue in its composition. BV means bluish +violet, being a violet having more blue than red in its composition. BG +means bluish green, being a green having more blue than yellow in its +composition. YG means yellow green, being a green having more yellow +than blue in its composition. YO means yellowish orange, being an orange +having more yellow than red in its composition. RO means reddish orange, +being an orange having more red than yellow in its composition. Thus we +may advance from red to yellow by graduations almost imperceptible, by +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +the addition of yellow, to a reddish orange, and so on gradually to +orange, continuing on to yellowish orange, finally revealing pure +yellow.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="img8" id="img8"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/img8.png" width="450" height="405" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">DIAGRAM II</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + +<p><a name="img9" id="img9"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/img9.png" width="650" height="489" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">DIAGRAM III</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="para12" id="para12"></a></p> +<p>12. The contrasting color at any stage may be determined by proceeding +in a direct line across the circle: Red has for its contrasting color +green; hence, reddish orange would have for its contrasting color a +bluish green, for the simple reason that if +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +red contrasts with green +and orange contrasts with blue, the color between the red and the orange +would contrast with the color between the green and the blue. Let us +determine the contrasting color for crimson. Crimson is simply a red +slightly tinged with blue. If red contrasts with green, a shade a little +to the left of red slightly tinged with blue would contrast with a shade +a little to the right of green slightly tinged with yellow. In other +words, crimson, RV, would contrast with yellowish green, YG. Determine +at what point of the circle any color that you have in mind will come, +and the contrasting color would be immediately opposite.</p> + +<p><a name="para13" id="para13"></a></p> +<p>13. The harmony of analogy consists of the harmony of related colors or +tones of one color. (See <a href="#para17">¶ 17</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para14" id="para14"></a></p> +<p>14. The harmony of contrast consists of colors in no way related. As an +example of the harmony of analogy, we would mention red and orange, +because both of these colors have ingredients in common, red being one +of the two component parts of orange. As an example of the harmony of +contrast, we suggest red and green, because there is nothing in common +between the two, red being a primary color, and green a secondary, +composed of the other two primaries, yellow and blue. (See <a href="#para17">¶ 17</a>.)</p> + +<p>15. Green is called the complement of red. The complement of blue would +be orange, because +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +orange is formed by combining the remaining +primaries, red and yellow; and the complement of yellow would be violet, +because violet is composed of blue and red, the other primaries.</p> + +<p>16. In <a href="#img8">Diagram II</a> we have arranged at opposite points the primaries 1, +the secondaries 2, the tertiaries 3, the quaternaries 4.</p> + +<p>But <a href="#img9">Diagram III</a> goes further into the subject.</p> + +<p>It is easy to understand the composition of secondaries, but it is not +so easy to know the tertiaries and quaternaries. (See also <a href="#img6">Diagram I</a>.)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>CONTRAST ANALOGIES</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para17" id="para17"></a></p> +<p>17. <a href="#img9">Diagram III</a> is of the utmost value to the colorist, illustrating not +only the composition of color, but showing the origin of each secondary +from the two primaries, the origin of each tertiary from two +secondaries, and of each quaternary from two tertiaries. It shows by +groupings the harmonies of analogy or related colors; also the harmonies +of contrast: By moving on the board one color on one line to another +color upon another line, like the moving of a knight in a game of chess, +and confining the moves always to adjoining lines, like yellow to +violet, violet to citrine, citrine to plum, plum to brown. Yellow and +violet are true contrasts, the one color having nothing in common with +the other. The citrine and the plum, however, are approximate contrasts. +For greater convenience, we have numbered the contrasting colors A’s and +B’s. Absolute contrast is +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +where the two colors have nothing in common. +For composition purposes, however, citrine and violet may be considered +contrasts, or correctly speaking, contrast analogies. (See <a href="#para19">¶ 19</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para18" id="para18"></a></p> +<p>18. A harmony of contrast means the utilization of a primary color with +its complementary, or a color in conjunction with another color in no +degree related: a primary with a secondary. But when we soften these +contrasting colors by the addition of white we have in the lighter tints +a scale of chroma that is a form of analogy.</p> + +<p><a name="para19" id="para19"></a></p> +<p>19. All combinations of secondary and tertiary colors, while apparently +harmonies of contrast (the tertiary being made by the composition of two +secondaries), constitute, in fact, contrast analogies, because by +analysis we find that all tertiaries possess color components occurring +in the apparently contrasting secondaries. (See <a href="#img9">Diagram III</a>.)</p> + +<p>20. The harmony of contrast, literally, can only occur in the pure +primary colors juxtaposed to the pure secondary colors, for in no case +does the color formed by the combination of the two primaries have +anything in common with the third primary; while a tertiary composed of +two secondaries invariably has qualities possessed by the third +secondary.</p> + +<p><a name="para21" id="para21"></a></p> +<p>21. In a room which is small or dark, the light tints in harmonies of +analogy are advisable.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>PROPORTIONS</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para22" id="para22"></a></p> +<p>22. In the use of one color with another of contrasting character the +question frequently arises, what proportion of each should be used to +obtain the best effect? Illustrative color books show usually samples of +color of the same size, leading one unconsciously to the error that +contrasting colors should occupy the same surface dimensions.</p> + +<p>23. In every room there must be a prevailing or dominant color, and the +use of a contrasting color must be limited to proportions which give +simply a pleasing emphasis. Let us assume that a room has a deep frieze +pronouncedly green. To treat the rest of the wall in red of a direct +contrast would be ineffective.</p> + +<p>24. If a rule can be applied we would say that no strong normal color +should be used in large surfaces. If we were dealing with pigments we +would say that if one-sixth of a side-wall is devoted to a frieze in +green, the balance of the wall space should be treated with the same +amount of red, mixed with the same amount of gray.</p> + +<p><a name="para25" id="para25"></a></p> +<p>25. For a room that is small and well lighted the fresh tints are not as +desirable as the gray shades or tertiaries in conjunction with +secondaries.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>COLOR IN LARGE OR SMALL ROOMS</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para26" id="para26"></a></p> +<p>26. For a large room well lighted, yellow, red and orange in delicate +shades are not as desirable as orange, violet and russet in light +shades. This rule, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +however, may be reversed for a large room that is +dimly lighted.</p> + +<p>A superabundance of light gives an uncomfortable glare.</p> + +<p><a name="para27" id="para27"></a></p> +<p>27. One may mechanically obtain harmony of analogy in proper proportions +for the treatment of a room or a design by following the guidance of +<a href="#img6">Diagram I</a>. It will be noted in this diagram that the inner circle is +blue, red and yellow, the primary colors.</p> + +<p>The second circle is composed of the secondaries; the third circle, the +tertiaries, and the outer circle, the quaternaries.</p> + +<p>There is a nice distinction in the combination of primaries for the +formation of secondaries, and exact proportions are quite necessary.</p> + +<p>An orange, for instance, would be off shade if it did not consist of +half red and half yellow, but in the making of the quaternaries, which +are, at best, gray shades, exact proportions are not necessary.</p> + +<p>Nevertheless, in <a href="#img6">Diagram I</a> we have observed exact proportions in order +to make our demonstration clear.</p> + +<p>The harmony of analogy is the combination of colors related, but the +relationship must be displayed in proportions consistent with the origin +of each and every color used.</p> + +<p>Let us assume that the prevailing note in a room, in either the +side-wall or floor, is sage.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img15.png" width="600" height="345" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">DIAGRAM IA</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +We can tell by drawing lines from the center of <a href="#img6">Diagram I</a> to the +extremities of the space marked sage that there is a little blue and a +little yellow, some green and slate and citrine used in the composition +of sage, and hence the use of these colors constitutes the harmony of +relationship or analogy.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>COLOR PROPORTIONS</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para28" id="para28"></a></p> +<p>28. But to arrive at proportions we must reduce the circular table to a +geometrical table. We must straighten out the lines so that the exact +proportions are apparent. We need not confuse the reader by mathematics, +but to establish our theory we produce the <a href="#Page_15">Diagram IA</a>, and it will be +here seen that the relative proportions existing in the segments of the +circles have been observed in the triangles.</p> + +<p>Thus we have thirty-two right-angled triangles.</p> + +<p>Sage occupies fourteen-thirty-seconds of the entire composition; slate +occupies five-thirty-seconds; citrine, five-thirty-seconds; green, +six-thirty-seconds; blue, one-thirty-second; yellow, one-thirty-second; +and these colors, to observe the proper harmony of analogy in a room, +should be used in the proportions above indicated.</p> + +<p>Sage should be in the preponderance; citrine and slate should occupy +nearly one-sixth of the entire composition, green about one-fifth, and +the whole should be picked out with touches of sharp blue and sharp +yellow, representing each one-thirty-second.</p> + +<p>Let us take, for instance, a room that is in white woodwork, and apply +the sage to the walls and the slate to the floor, and lighten the sage +with citrine +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +and lighten the slate with violet, and intersperse orange +and green in a way permitted by the proportions at our command. When the +work is completed we find a harmony of analogy which can be then +relieved by touches of the primitive colors, blue and yellow, in the +proportions shown.</p> + +<p><a name="para29" id="para29"></a></p> +<p>29. Good examples of contrast color effects may be found in the +following series of combinations:</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center">PROPORTIONS OF COLOR ANALYSIS FROM<br /> +ASSYRIAN TILES.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <th colspan="3">Example No. 1.</th> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue-Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>60</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Greenish-Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>8</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>6</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Purple-Brown</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>6</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>20</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>——</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>100</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <th colspan="3">No. 2.</th> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>35</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>30</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>15</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Dull Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>10</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Black</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>10</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>——</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>100</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <th colspan="3">No. 3.</th> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>60</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Deep Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>20</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Light Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>10</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>10</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>——</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>100</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <th colspan="3">No. 4.</th> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Pale Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>34</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>27</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>25</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>6</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Gold</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>4</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Black</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>2</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>2</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>——</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>100</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <th colspan="3">No. 5.</th> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Black</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>63</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>17</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>9</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>4</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Light Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>3</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>3</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>1</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>——</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>100</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <th colspan="3">No. 6.</th> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>36</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue-Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>24</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>14</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>11</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>10</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Dull Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>3</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Black</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>2</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>——</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>100</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <th colspan="3">No. 7.</th> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>36</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue-Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>24</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>14</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>11</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>10</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Dull Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>3</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Black</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>2</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>——</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>100</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='right'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'></td> </tr> +</table></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>BLACK—WHITE—GRAY</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para30" id="para30"></a></p> +<p>30. We do not wish to be understood as stating that the work of the +colorist is solely mechanical; but we would emphasize that the +influences of color are very largely the result of studied proportions. +The basis upon which one operates must be soundly constructed upon the +theory of scale, and scale is mechanically determined. If red is +lightened by the addition of white, or darkened by the addition of +black, it is removed to another scale, and can only harmonize by +contrast with its complement by adding to green the same amount of white +or black that has changed the character of the red, and this should be +mathematically accurate.</p> + +<p><a name="para31" id="para31"></a></p> +<p>31. To place white by the side of a color heightens or intensifies the +tone of that color. To put black beside a color has the opposite effect. +It weakens the color. Every woman looks better in white, hence white is +the universal wedding gown, the universal party dress for children, and, +wherever practical, the universal Summer dress for adults as well. White +is worn universally by men and women next to the face, in collars or in +neckwear, and the reason for it is that the contiguous white intensifies +whatever color they may possess. Black, on the other hand, lessens the +color or lowers its tone.</p> + +<p><a name="para32" id="para32"></a></p> +<p>32. Gray is a medium between the two. While it renders an adjacent color +less brilliant, it takes to itself at the same time a tint that is a +complement of that adjacent color. In other words, gray by the side of +green appears faintly pinkish.</p> + +<p><a name="para33" id="para33"></a></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +33. Black is always desirable as an associate with luminous colors. +Black does not associate as well with two colors, one of which is +luminous and the other sombre, as when associated with two luminous +colors.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='left'>ORANGE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>YELLOW</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>YELLOW</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>BLACK</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>BLACK</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>BLACK</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>RED</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>ORANGE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>RED</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>YELLOW</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>GREEN</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>ORANGE</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>BLACK</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>BLACK</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>BLACK</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>VIOLET</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>YELLOW</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>GREEN</td> </tr> + +</table></div> + +<p class="center"><em>The green being yellowish and the violet reddish.</em></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p>White is preferable when associated with a luminous and a sombre color. +Thus,</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='left'>RED</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>ORANGE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>RED</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>YELLOW</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>WHITE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>WHITE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>WHITE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>WHITE</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>BLUE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>BLUE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>VIOLET</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>BLUE</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>ORANGE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>GREEN</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>GREEN</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>YELLOW</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>WHITE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>WHITE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>WHITE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>WHITE</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>VIOLET</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>BLUE</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>VIOLET</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>VIOLET</td> </tr> + +</table></div> + +<p class="center"><em>The violet being bluish, the green yellowish.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>ROOM COMBINATIONS</strong></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/img21.png" width="650" height="429" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Showing Four-Color Combinations.</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>SEQUENCE OF HARMONIES</strong></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/img22.png" width="650" height="220" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">DIAGRAM VI</span> +</div> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%;">As these twenty-one sections are arranged, one has the layout for a suite of seven +rooms; following the top line across in a light scale, the harmony is complete; following +the center line across in a normal, the harmony is complete; so also with the bottom +line in a lower scale. Follow the colors diagonally and you find they are repeats, or very +close to repeats—red, russet, red, for instance; violet, violet, violet; blue, slate, blue; +green, green, green; yellow, citrine, yellow; orange, orange, orange. To the colorist the +combinations here suggested are full of inspiration.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="para34" id="para34"></a></p> +<p>34. The harmony of analogy is a subject that is little understood. It +may be color sequence, progression, development or succession.</p> + +<p>Thus we may combine red, green and blue by starting with crimson and +maintaining the following +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> +sequence: Crimson, red, scarlet, orange, +yellow, greenish yellow, green, bluish green, blue, violet, and with +added red get back to crimson.</p> + +<p>A room or a series of rooms may run to all colors and be still a harmony +of analogy if the sequence or succession is gradual.</p> + +<p><a name="para35" id="para35"></a></p> +<p>35. No more delightful harmonies can be imagined than those provided by +nature. One may start with the brown of the earth and run into several +shades of green, and from that touch upon yellow, and from yellow to +orange, and from orange to red, and red to violet, and violet to the +blue of the sky. Or one may follow the colorings and the proportion of +colorings in flora and never go astray. (See <a href="#para22">¶ 22.</a>)</p> + +<p><a name="para36" id="para36"></a></p> +<p>36. In the application of color to the home nothing is more pleasing +than the harmony of sequence; the coloring of all rooms must be in +sympathy with contiguous rooms. (<a href="#Page_26">Diagram VII</a>.) +(See <a href="#para34">¶ 34</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para37" id="para37"></a></p> +<p>37. All rooms are subject to the influence of a north or a south light, +or much or little light, and the colorings must be considered +accordingly. The ceiling and the upper parts of a wall require more pale +colors where more light is needed. On the floor, however, where the +greatest light falls, a little black may be added to soften the tone.</p> + +<p><a name="para38" id="para38"></a></p> +<p>38. Red and green are sharply contrasting colors; violet and yellow and +blue and orange sharply contrast, and while their combinations may be +used in adjoining +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +rooms, it will be seen that in <a href="#Page_21">Diagram IV</a> these +contrasting tones are not in contact, but by their arrangement form +analogies of contrast combinations.</p> + +<p><a name="para39" id="para39"></a></p> +<p>39. Yellow, orange, red, violet, blue and green are related; orange, +russet, violet, slate, green and citrine are related; red, violet, blue, +green, yellow and orange are related. Viewing the ceilings, the +side-walls or the floor, there is the harmony of progression that we +observe in the tinting of a flower. Viewed collectively the harmony is +the same.</p> + +<p><a name="para40" id="para40"></a></p> +<p>40. To illustrate further our point we would take the ceiling line. We +start with yellow, a primary color; orange possesses yellow; orange +likewise possesses red, the adjoining color; violet possesses red, and +it likewise possesses blue. On the side-wall, russet possesses orange, +and it also possesses violet; it is the tertiary color made of these two +secondaries. Slate is made of green and violet, and is thus also related +to citrine.</p> + +<p>We do not wish it understood that these colors are to be applied flat, +but simply in the predominating expression. (See <a href="#para27">¶ 27</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para41" id="para41"></a></p> +<p>41. The value of the diagram is obvious when one considers that in no +particular is there a break in the sequence; but if we wish a harmony of +analogy in a room, or a harmony of related parts, and wish the adjoining +room to be in absolute contrast, we simply adopt the red, violet and +blue for one room, and the green, citrine and orange for another; or the orange, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> +russet and violet for one room, and the blue, green and yellow +for the other. If, however, the sequence of color is desirable where we +move from one apartment to another, and the eye is pleased by a gradual +changing color, we can adopt any of these combinations in the order as +presented.</p> + +<p><a name="para42" id="para42"></a></p> +<p>42. A vital point in the use of color, regarded usually with +indifference or totally misunderstood, is the Unity of Composition to be +preserved in the treatment of a series of <em>floors</em> in a house; for on +each floor of a house the conditions of light vary. As we ascend the +stairs we find each floor requires an altered treatment, because of the +added light given from the skylight. (See <a href="#para37">¶ 37</a>.) Moreover, in the +arrangement of a floor the relation of one room to another is frequently +so influential that no one room should be treated without due +consideration to the adjacent apartment. (See <a href="#Page_26">Diagram VIII</a>.)</p> + +<p>Too frequently the whole question of color is dismissed when the matter +of north or south exposure is discovered, but the north room on the +lower floor of a house is by no means so well lighted as the north room +of the fourth or fifth floor, and the scale of color which would lend +warmth to such a room would be weak in a more exposed apartment. +(See <a href="#para30">¶ 30</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para43" id="para43"></a></p> +<p>43. Where the artist has but one room to consider there is little scope +for his application of color knowledge. He must frequently compromise to +meet the conditions. But presuming that he must treat a floor +through, he should adopt a Unity which will apply harmoniously to all +the rooms and hallways.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<span class="caption">DIAGRAM VII</span> +<img src="images/img26.png" width="650" height="455" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">DIAGRAM VIII</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img27.png" width="600" height="470" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">DIAGRAM IX<br /> +For Key to Numbers see <a href="#Page_26">Diagram VII</a>.</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>CONTIGUOUS HARMONIES</strong></p> + +<p>44. For the lower floor he must arrange his colors so that while they +moderate the direct glare of a sunny exposure or brighten the +cheerlessness of a north light, they will also form a composition that +pleases when seen from a point of common observation.</p> + +<p>45. On the upper floors the scale of color should be gradually softened, +for the yellow or ivory tints that are pleasing on the first floor would +be harsh and glaring where there is greater light. Exterior conditions +must be borne always in mind.</p> + +<p>46. Recalling that the primary colors are yellow, red and blue, and that +the secondary colors are orange, violet and green, and that the tertiary +colors are russet, slate and citrine, all with many tints and shades, +let us arrange a series of five rooms seriatim, so treating ceiling, +side-wall and floor (See <a href="#Page_27">Diagram IX</a>) that in passing from one room to +another they will be in sequence of color harmony—each complete from +floor to ceiling and all in harmony along the ceiling lines, the wall +lines and the floor lines.</p> + +<p>Let us take the suite of rooms suggested in <a href="#Page_27">Diagram IX</a>. We must consider +desirable colorings in all of the rooms to be treated, and so far as +possible adjust the sequence of treatments, as shown in <a href="#Page_26">Diagram VIII</a>, so +that the approach to each room will be in harmonious order as viewed +from any room. We have five rooms to treat. The library happens to be +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +on the north side, hence we wish to treat it in colorings that supply +the deficiency of sunshine. The hallway is rather dark. The living-room +has only one window, and requires more warmth of color than the +billiard-room and dining-room, which being sunshiny can be treated in +more sombre tones. Therefore we select combination 6 for the hallway. +The one room on the right we treat in No. 1. The rooms on the left we +treat in Nos. 5, 4 and 3. We have, therefore, as we stand in room No. 6, +treated in green, citrine and orange, a view to the right of yellow, +orange and red, which is in harmonious juxtaposition. To the left we +have a glimpse of rooms, the floors of which adjoining the orange floor +of the entrance hall, are yellow, green and blue. The wall spaces +adjoining the citrine wall space of the hall treatment are green, slate +and violet. The frieze lines adjoining the green of the hall treatment +are blue, violet and red—all juxtaposed harmonies. The floors of all +rooms are of one deep scale; the walls lighter scale; the friezes and +ceiling still lighter. If viewed from room 4 the harmonies are equally +effective.</p> + +<p>47. <a href="#Page_26">Diagram VII</a> is useful for many reasons. In its present shape it +shows the harmonies of analogy or related parts. To arrange harmonies of +contrast, combine the colors of the first room with the fourth room, the +colors of the second room with the fifth room, the colors of the third +room with the sixth room. (See <a href="#para37">¶ 37</a>.)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>HARMONIES FOR THE ROOM</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para48" id="para48"></a></p> +<p>48. The floor should usually enter into the color +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +scheme as the low +note in the scale. It is the background for the furniture, and should be +deeper than the dado or wainscoting. The wood trims—baseboard, doors, +plate-rails, and everything of that character, except the picture +molding—should be like the woodwork of the furniture. This brings the +woodwork into contrast with the wainscoting (unless the wainscoting be +wood) and into harmony with the side-walls, although the degree of +harmony is far removed. Thus, if the woodwork of the furniture is +mahogany, the wainscoting green, the side-walls pink and gray, we would +find the window trims of mahogany, or imitation mahogany, in harmony +with the side-walls. (See <a href="#para51">¶ 51 and ¶ 52</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para49" id="para49"></a></p> +<p>49. I would lay down the rule that the wood trims of a room should +harmonize by analogy with the side-walls where such walls are provided +with a contrasting wainscoting; but if there is no wainscoting, or the +wainscoting be also of wood, then the wood trims and furniture contrast +with the side-wall.</p> + +<p>Substitute green side-wall for the pink, <a href="#para48">¶ 48</a>.</p> + +<p>White woodwork is always permissible. Study <a href="#Page_22">Diagram VI</a> on page 22.</p> + +<p><a name="para50" id="para50"></a></p> +<p>50. The picture molding may harmonize with the ceiling. Indeed, a white +picture molding frequently is better than one matching the general +woodwork (See <a href="#para37">¶ 37</a>); a dark upper molding, moreover, reduces the +apparent size of a room.</p> + +<p><a name="para51" id="para51"></a></p> +<p>51. Where black furniture is used, or gold +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +furniture, it will of course +be understood that the wood trims shall not be black or gold; but so +long as they are in harmony, that will be sufficient. White wood trims +are nearly always permissible as a substitute for colored wood.</p> + +<p>52. Tones of gray with soft colorings (See <a href="#para32">¶ 32</a>), are always safe.</p> + +<p>To summarize (Note <a href="#para37">¶ 37</a>):</p> + +<p><a name="para53" id="para53"></a></p> +<p>53. In harmonies of contrast the side-walls, the furniture woodwork, +wood trimming, cove, ceiling and the curtains should be related.</p> + +<p>54. The rugs, frieze, wainscoting or dado, furniture upholsterings and +the curtain borders should be related. (See <a href="#para49">¶ 49</a>.)</p> + +<p>55. If the curtains have no borders, then the curtains contrast with the +wood trims.</p> + +<p><a name="para56" id="para56"></a></p> +<p>56. Remember always cove and ceiling should be the palest tint of the +side-wall color, and the rug should be of the deepest contrast to the +side-wall, in harmony with the wainscoting, if there is a wainscoting. +Remember, also, that the colors here prescribed are never to be of the +same scale. The rug or carpet is of the deepest, and the ceiling of the +palest. While certain colors are to contrast, they are not to contrast +in the same scale. (See <a href="#para37">¶ 37</a> and <a href="#para40">¶ 40</a>.)</p> + +<p>57. If we find that the tone of color of the wainscoting, for instance, +is a bluish green, the side-wall should be of a reddish orange; for the +reason that if green contrasts with red, and if blue contrasts with +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +orange, a bluish green would contrast with a reddish orange.</p> + +<p><a name="para58" id="para58"></a></p> +<p>58. Exception to <a href="#para56">¶ 56</a>. Only large or well-proportioned rooms can stand +the diminishing or reduction effects of contrast. In low ceiling rooms, +leave out the contrasting frieze, and let border, cornice and ceiling be +in receding colors. (See <a href="#para89">¶ 89</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para59" id="para59"></a></p> +<p>59. We all know that a northern exposure gives a room a deficiency of +sunlight, and the wall treatment should supply this. A southern room, on +the other hand, gives so much sunlight that counteracting wall +treatments in cold color are permissible.</p> + +<p>60. In the color treatment of a room one has either to adopt a harmony +of analogy or a harmony of contrast, and this is a matter which depends +upon so many conditions that it should be carefully considered. +(See <a href="#para88">¶ 88</a> and <a href="#para89">¶ 89</a>.) Where a plate-rail is used one must remember that a great +deal of color may be furnished by the bric-à-brac, and that the wall +behind this plate-rail should be of a color in contrast to the contents +of the plate-rail.</p> + +<p><a name="para61" id="para61"></a></p> +<p>61. When we follow a scheme of <em>contrast</em> the borders should be usually +complements, and if the reader has studied our diagram he will very +readily understand how to determine the exact complementary color.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>WALL PROPORTIONS</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para62" id="para62"></a></p> +<p>62. The wainscoting or dado should be the same as the top border or +frieze, but of a darker tone. The intermixture of white or black is +always permissible; +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> +thus a paper as a side-wall might have as its +frieze the complementary coloring with more white, while the wainscoting +or dado should be the complementary with black added.</p> + +<p><a name="para63" id="para63"></a></p> +<p>63. The cornice should be lighter than the border, and its members may +show several tints, with the ceiling lighter still. (See <a href="#para92">¶ 92</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para64" id="para64"></a></p> +<p>64. As a rule the color of the chair coverings should be the +complementary of the side-walls, and the color of the furniture frames +should be complementary to the wainscoting; so by following this rule we +find that the wainscoting serves as a contrasting background to the +chair frame.</p> + +<p>65. Let us imagine a room wherein the side-walls are of a reddish tint; +the wainscoting, being a complementary color, is of a greenish cast. The +furniture is of mahogany, and in contrast to the wainscoting, while the +chair covering, being greenish in contrast to the chair frame, is also +in contrast to the side-wall. Here we have, then, the color relations of +side-wall, wainscoting, furniture-frames and covering; but it is +undesirable that these tones should be in the same scale. (See <a href="#para62">¶ 62</a> and +<a href="#para92">¶ 92</a>, also tables pages <a href="#Page_42">42 and 43.</a>)</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> +<img src="images/img34.png" width="700" height="389" alt="large room proportions" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> +<img src="images/img35.png" width="700" height="387" alt="small room proportions" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>ROOM PROPORTIONS</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para66" id="para66"></a></p> +<p>66. In small rooms harmonies of contrast are unsafe, because contrasts +must involve advancing colors, which make a room look smaller. (See <a href="#para86">¶ 86</a> +and <a href="#para90">¶ 90</a>.) Harmonies of analogy are far better; and as frieze, +wainscoting and dado are not recommended in the small room, we suggest +that the furniture woodwork and the wood trims should be of one color +note, unless it is desired that the wood trims should be white; and that +the side-walls, curtains and chair upholsterings should be of a note in +some degree related and of receding color, picked out with just a touch +of contrasting color. (See <a href="#para90">¶ 90 and ¶ 91</a>.)</p> + +<p>This contrasting color may be introduced in the accessories, the +pictures, bric-à-brac, flowers (natural or artificial) or books.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 323px;"> +<img src="images/img36.png" width="323" height="450" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“... pronounced patterns must balance,” etc.<br /> +(See page <a href="#Page_38">38</a>.)</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img37.png" width="600" height="118" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Broken heights. (See <a href="#para75">¶ 75</a>.)</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>DECORATIVE PROPORTIONS</strong></p> + +<p class="center">(SEE CHART)</p> + +<p>On the preceding pages we present a quick-reference chart of rules that +should be followed in furnishing rooms under various conditions of Light +and Proportion.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 10em;"> +67. A large room with high ceiling and well lighted.<br /> +68. A large room with low ceiling and well lighted.<br /> +69. A large room with high ceiling and poorly lighted.<br /> +70. A large room with low ceiling and poorly lighted.<br /> +71. A small room with high ceiling and well lighted.<br /> +72. A small room with low ceiling and well lighted.<br /> +73. A small room with high ceiling and poorly lighted.<br /> +74. A small room with low ceiling and poorly lighted.</p> + +<p>There are two considerations to bear uppermost in mind: Proportions +affected by Color and Proportions affected by Design.</p> + +<p><a name="para75" id="para75"></a></p> +<p>75. It is easily understood that a large room may be safely furnished +with large pieces of furniture, but where there is a wide expanse of +floor space care must be exercised to secure broken heights: In a +high-ceilinged room the furniture must not be all high; in a +low-ceilinged room the furniture must not be all low.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> +Avoid straight line effects in the furniture heights and in the +wall-paper, which, if in pronounced patterns, must balance in +conspicuous wall members and show the broken junctures or bad matchings +in inconspicuous or obscure corners.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>COLORS THAT GIVE SIZE TO A ROOM</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para76" id="para76"></a></p> +<p>76. The wall and fabric designs must be of a size proportionate to the +size of the room. The color treatment of a well-lighted room must be +subdued to offset the glare of the natural illumination, and the natural +illumination be subdued to soften the color treatment; glare must be +avoided.</p> + +<p><a name="para77" id="para77"></a></p> +<p>77. Advancing colors are colors which contain red or yellow in the +ascendancy; <em>receding</em> colors are those which contain blue in the +ascendancy. Green in its purity, being half yellow and half blue, is +almost neutral. In the same way violet, being made up of half red and +half blue, is theoretically neutral, although the blue tone is usually +more assertive than the red and makes the color recede. Any color or hue +possesses advancing or receding qualities according to the ascendancy of +red, blue or yellow in its composition.</p> + +<p><a name="para78" id="para78"></a></p> +<p>78. Orange is an advancing color; so also is violet in the shades +approaching red; green in the shades approaching yellow.</p> + +<p><a name="para79" id="para79"></a></p> +<p>79. Of the tertiary colors russet is an advancing color, because while +it contains some blue in the violet of its composition, it contains a +preponderance of red and orange.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>ADVANCING AND RECEDING COLORS</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para80" id="para80"></a></p> +<p>80. Citrine is an advancing color, because while it contains some blue +in the green of its composition, it contains a preponderance of yellow +and orange; slate is a receding color, because while it contains some +yellow in the green of its composition, it contains a preponderance of +blue; in the same way plum may be regarded as an advancing color, +because of its preponderance of red; buff is an advancing color, because +of its preponderance of yellow; sage is a receding color, because of its +preponderance of blue.</p> + +<p><a name="para81" id="para81"></a></p> +<p>81. The carpet should always be in the low tone, and in a small room a +bordered carpet should be always tabooed. So also should one avoid the +use of one rug so placed that a border of woodwork shows around it, +because this gives the border effect and makes a small floor space look +still smaller. Better use small rugs. The use of a lot of narrow rugs +lengthwise along a narrow room will make the room look all the narrower, +but the same rugs placed crosswise would make a room look wider.</p> + +<p>The diagrams which we have prepared will give even the man who +understands it all a quicker grasp of the points involved.</p> + +<p><a name="para82" id="para82"></a></p> +<p>82. Width effect and distance effect are obtained best by arranging the +smaller pieces at the farthest points.</p> + +<p>83. It is the same with pictures. While a room should be balanced, and +the pictures placed in a manner to give this result, it is best, where +possible, to +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> +keep the larger pictures, larger effects, always near the +eye. The crowding of large pieces at the farthest point diminishes the +apparent size of the room.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>FLOOR TREATMENTS</strong></p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/img40.png" width="500" height="297" alt="floor rug" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="para84" id="para84"></a></p> +<p>84. Continuous design in ceiling or carpet weakens the size effect; +hence rugs which break the continuity by being laid across the room +instead of lengthwise are preferable. (See Diagrams and <a href="#para81">¶ 81</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para85" id="para85"></a></p> +<p>85. It is a safe rule to do a small or narrow room in harmonies of +analogy or related colors, colors of a light tone and of receding +character. Apart from any effect which color may possess decoratively or +pictorially, its value cannot be overestimated in its application to the +laws of proportion.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/img41.png" width="650" height="385" alt="floor rugs" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="para86" id="para86"></a></p> +<p>86. Borders may be safely used on the wall or on the carpet of any large +room with high ceiling, but wall friezes should be avoided where the +ceilings are low, for they foreshorten the height effect.</p> + +<p><a name="para87" id="para87"></a></p> +<p>87. We would avoid borders on the floor of a small room to make it look +larger, and we would use wide borders in a large room with a low ceiling +so that the floor may be foreshortened.</p> + +<p><a name="para88" id="para88"></a></p> +<p>88. One may utilize in a large, poorly lighted room masses of luminous +colors to give artificial sunlight to the room deficient therein, but in +the small, poorly lighted room this treatment should be avoided.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>COLOR SCHEMES FOR ROOMS UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS</strong></p> + + +<p>(TN: left page of two page table)</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>KEYNOTE<br />COLORS</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='center'><strong>A</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>B</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>A</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>B</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>A</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>B</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='center'><strong><em>Floor</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Drapery</em></strong><br /><strong><em>Border</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Wood Trim</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Wainscoting</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Side-Wall</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Furniture</em></strong><br /><strong><em>Coverings</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='center'>(<em>Brown and<br />gray tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Full tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Wood tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Deep tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Soft tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Soft tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Brown</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Mission</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Deep oak<br /> brown</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Mission</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Light oak</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Light oak</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Violet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Violet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Deep olive</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Oak</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Mission tones<br /> of slate</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Violet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Mahogany</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Deep plum</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Violet toned<br /> or tulip</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Violet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +</table></div> + +<p> </p> +<p>(TN: right page of two page table)</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='center'><strong>A</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>B</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>A</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>B</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong>A</strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='center'><strong><em>Furniture</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Frieze</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Draperies</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Ceiling</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'><strong><em>Cornice</em></strong></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='center'>(<em>Wood tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Soft tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Full tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Pale wash tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='center'>(<em>Pale wash tones</em>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Mahogany</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Pale green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Palest green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Pale yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Deep oak</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Palest blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Pale green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Gold, gray or<br /> yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Violet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Palest violet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Pale blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Walnut gray</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Grayish red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Palest red</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Pale violet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Mission brown</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Gray orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Palest orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Pale orange</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Gold or violet<br /> tone</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Violet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Palest yellow</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='left'>Pale pink</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + </tr> + +</table></div> + +<p>Exception 1. The ceiling, where there is no pronounced cornice or cove, +should follow the wall tint.</p> + +<p>Exception 2. Independent of rule, a low ceiling should be in receding +color.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>It is impossible to tabulate directions for using color without an +understanding of the conditions, the size, light and height of a room. +(See pages <a href="#Page_34">34 and 35</a>.) The above tables relate only to normal +conditions.</p> + +<p>White woodwork can be used effectively in the trims of a room and give +greater light and size. The darker the wood trims the smaller the room +appears. We have left out of consideration the window treatments which, +as a rule, should be of white lace, perhaps overdraped in colored +stuffs. If the room is poorly lighted, it is obviously undesirable to +cut off any light from the window by even laces; the curtains, +therefore, in a poorly lighted room should be draped back. Colored +laces, grenadines or madras stuffs are frequently used to give period +style or color tone, and +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> +wherever they are used, such curtains should +harmonize with the wall. So also with the overdraperies to the lace +curtains.</p> + +<p><a name="para89" id="para89"></a></p> +<p>89. Luminous or advancing colors make a small room look all the smaller; +therefore in small rooms we suggest the use of white woodwork, and in +the color treatment we would avoid contrasts, but would suggest +harmonies of analogy in receding colors, soft grays, greens and blues. +These are not luminous colors and will make a small room look the +larger, while the white will give light effects, and if the room appears +a trifle somber it can be easily relieved by +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> +the bright colors of the +bric-à-brac and by a touch of gold here and there on the wall. +(See <a href="#para66">¶ 66</a> and <a href="#para85">¶ 85</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para90" id="para90"></a></p> +<p>90. There are cases where a small room has a northern exposure, and +while apparently expedient to treat such a room in warm colors to supply +the deficiency of sunlight, such a course would make a room look +smaller.</p> + +<p><a name="para91" id="para91"></a></p> +<p>91. Under the circumstances treat the room in light hues, gray +preferred, and get the deficiency of sunlight through some warm isolated +details and in the lace curtains.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>THE WALL THE KEYNOTE COLOR</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para92" id="para92"></a></p> +<p>92. Our theory of color as applied to room furnishings provides always +that the side-wall is the keynote and this keynote is usually fixed for +practical reasons in sympathy with the furniture; above to the ceiling’s +center the note ascends and below to the floor center it descends; it +goes into tints as it ascends and into deeper shades of gray and brown +as it descends.</p> + +<p>If, for instance, blue is the keynote, by adding black you have drabs, +slates or grays for the floor, while if the keynote be red you have +écrus and browns for the floor light or gray, according to the color +scale of the keynote.</p> + +<p><a name="para93" id="para93"></a></p> +<p>93. It must be understood that in designating a color we do not mean +that it shall be solid or pure, but merely that it prevails. (See <a href="#para29">¶ 29</a>.)</p> + +<p>A side-wall may be treated in several colors, but as long as orange +prevails, it follows the conditions of +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> +the combination, pages <a href="#Page_42">42 and 43</a>. The factors included in the line +designated A are all of one color +family. The factors indicated by B are also family colors. It will be +seen that the A or B colors taken by themselves form <span class="smcap">harmonies of +analogy</span>; it is only by combining the A’s with the B’s that we have +<span class="smcap">harmonies of contrast</span>.</p> + +<p>If a room is to be done in harmonies of analogy, use the A colors alone +or the B colors alone, but never A and B together.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLOR</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para94" id="para94"></a></p> +<p>94. Whatever may be the charm conveyed by design there is a reason for +it. We can analyze it.</p> + +<p>It has an inherent quality of beauty or historic interest, and there is +a definite and distinct reason for our liking it.</p> + +<p>But the effect of color is exciting or disturbing, tranquilizing or +pleasing, inexplicable and inexpressible, affecting the senses like an +appeal to the passions or the appetite. One might as well explain the +love of sport, literature, art or vice. The sense of color is a nerve +sense, and this sense varies in the individual. We know that colors +which are strongest in direct sun rays, like red and orange, arouse the +normal senses, while the blues and violets quiet.</p> + +<p>Nature provides vast fields of green because favorable in its effects +upon humanity. Experiments prove that men of extreme sensibility exposed +to the influences of red light finally show excitement which gives +muscular development fifty per cent. in excess of the power possessed by +the same subject when +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> +exposed for the same period under the influences +of blue light.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>TO DETERMINE THE COLOR SENSE</strong></p> + +<p>Color, like music, while subjected to positive rules of harmony, appeals +to natures according to the responsiveness of their nerve sense, and the +practical decorator in dealing with a customer should discover at the +outstart the character of that nerve sense. Some natures respond to the +normal colors, barbaric colors. Some respond to the softer tints and are +disturbed by the sharper tones. A dulled sense requires sharp contrasts; +a quickened sense is satisfied with the soft gray tones. Apart from any +question of propriety or environment the individual taste for color must +be determined before the individual taste can be pleased.</p> + +<p>A demonstration of four examples in color may serve the purpose of +determining one’s color sense.</p> + +<p>First. Combinations of normal primary and secondary colors, (<em>a</em>) +arranged in contrasts, (<em>b</em>) in analogies.</p> + +<p>Second. Combinations of tones of the above colors, (<em>a</em>) arranged in +contrasts, (<em>b</em>) in analogies.</p> + +<p>Third. Combinations of tints of the above colors, (<em>a</em>) arranged in +contrasts, (<em>b</em>) in analogies.</p> + +<p>Fourth. Combinations of the gray (tertiary) tones of the above colors, +(<em>a</em>) arranged in contrasts, (<em>b</em>) in analogies.</p> + +<p><a name="para95" id="para95"></a></p> +<p>95. Do not allow your personal color-sympathies to dominate your work. +All colors have their usefulness, for there are occasions when it is +proper they +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> +should be used, apart from any question of harmony; one +must consider always the uses of colors, the lights, and the purpose of +the room under treatment.</p> + +<p><a name="para96" id="para96"></a></p> +<p>96. Nature gives to the dark forest depths great brilliancy of +floriculture, and dark-skinned people indulge unconsciously the same +bright scale of color. But as we come out of the forest and advance in +civilization we use barbaric colorings more discriminately.</p> + +<p>97. We employ gold, orange or yellow for the north room not for inherent +beauty, but for the sense of warmth which they convey to an atmosphere +chilled by the absence of sunlight. We employ receding colors in a small +room that the room may look larger. We employ cold colors in a sunny +room, especially in the summer home, for reasons psychological rather +than æsthetic.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>PERIOD USES OF COLOR</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para98" id="para98"></a></p> +<p>98. If our furniture is white and gold, it is clearly evident that the +colorings of a room should be soft and harmonious. If we adopt the dark +teakwood of India or the deep brown of Flanders, our color scheme again +changes. The preponderance of white in Colonial rooms was due to +architectural conditions. White illuminates; and in the days when our +ceilings were no higher than seven and a half feet, and our windows were +small, the room needed an artificial light, and white supplied this.</p> + +<p>99. In furnishing an Empire room, the decorators have, little by little, +led themselves to believe that +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> +what is known as Empire green is a +distinct shade of green. On the contrary, green was used in the period +of the Empire simply because it was in pleasing contrast with the +mahogany and brass so much used. If the mahogany is dark, a dark green +is desirable; if light, a light green.</p> + +<p>100. Egyptian decoration was full of gold and brilliant coloring, and a +popular form of combination was the triad form:</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 15em;"> +Black, yellow and red.<br /> +Red, blue and white.<br /> +Dark blue, light blue and white.<br /> +Cream color, blue and black.<br /> +Dark red, medium yellow and blue.</p> + +<p>101. The Greek decorators, who painted in fresco, used white, red, blue, +yellow and black. Natural marbles were much used in green and red and +alabaster, and bronze, gold and silver.</p> + +<p>We see the flat colors of the Greek, Etruscan and Pompeiian age and we +imagine they are typical of the period, but we must consider that the +examples of that period which we now possess are faded and emasculated, +and that the more authentic the example, the more aged it is, and hence +the more weakened in color character.</p> + +<p>The Greeks loved color, and their embroideries were in gold and blue and +Tyrian purple.</p> + +<p>Roman coloring was but a continuance of the Greek, characterized by dark +and rich backgrounds, which were frequently black, red or deep yellow and +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> +dark blue, on which figures and landscapes, or animals, or groups +from still life, were executed in bright colorings of powerful +contrasts. Black and white were used, and later, when the Byzantine +artists and craftsmen found their way to Western Italy, they spread this +love of bold coloring, so that at the dawn of the Renaissance we find a +return to the Greek and Roman coloring, which, however, was modified in +England, Germany and Flanders, according to temperamental conditions.</p> + +<p>102. We find, for instance, some forms of Florentine decoration, full of +yellow, red-yellow, blue-greens and light slate blues. Botticelli used +whites, creams, reds and citrine, with umber tones heightened by gold, +and if we examine carefully the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century +Italian brocades which are preserved in the museums, we discover a great +preponderance of yellow-green as an ornament on dark violet, or light +olive green on dark blue, or dull orange on crimson brown.</p> + +<p>In some of the richest early Italian fabrics we find:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p>Purple and sage-green ornaments on indigo ground; outlines in gold.</p> + +<p>Dull crimson, pale blue and chrome yellow ornaments on dark gray +ground.</p> + +<p>Pale yellow-green ornaments on deep amber ground.</p> + +<p>Dark blue-green and light greenish-yellow ornaments on deep crimson +ground.</p> + +<p>Pale greenish-blue ornaments on dark gray-blue ground, with white +and gold picked out in small quantities.</p> + +<p>Emerald green and dull orange ornaments on dark gray-green ground +outlined in gold.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> +<p>103. The French Renaissance takes inspiration from the Roman and Greek.</p> + +<p>The Louis XIV is a development of the Renaissance, with a conspicuous +use of gold.</p> + +<p>The Louis XV is an elaboration along the same lines.</p> + +<p>The Louis XVI is a simplification and a return to the classic.</p> + +<p>The Georgian is largely Roman and Pompeiian.</p> + +<p>104. The Adam style was taken directly from the Pompeiian, but in most +cases, instead of having the Pompeiian solid color background with +design lightly executed, the background is in the light color, and the +design dark. To follow strictly the Pompeiian palace style would be too +garish in our modern circumscribed environment.</p> + +<p>105. It is a nice psychological problem to decorate the house in a way +to give true balance to the æsthetic sense. No matter how great one’s +admiration for a thing, there is always a final point of satiety at +which the desire needs rest or balance. A woman may love flowers, for +example, but in the season of flowers, when all nature supplies an +over-abundance, the visual sense becomes satiated, and the house +interior that is furnished in cool tints and two-tones gives positive +relief.</p> + +<p>106. On the other hand, floral decorations in the home are the balance +needed to the mind that craves them during the Winter period when there +is a lack of color without.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;"> +<img src="images/img51.png" width="550" height="339" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Compare perpendicular and horizontal lines: The angles<br /> +and curves which enclose them change their relative equality.</span> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p class="center"><strong>ILLUSION EFFECT AND EXPRESSION IN THE USE OF LINES</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para107" id="para107"></a></p> +<p>107. We very often notice a room which has been carefully carried out +but is utterly lacking in charm. The color seems right, and, considered +in detail, the furniture and the furnishings are appropriate, but the +room lacks effectiveness.</p> + +<p>It is uninteresting.</p> + +<p>It is like a doll face that is, perhaps, perfect in detail, but utterly +devoid of <span class="smcap">expression</span>.</p> + +<p>The artist who paints a portrait is a failure without the ability to +give expression: hence in +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> +architecture the acute-angled spires or +arched roofs have the same expression that the “long face” carries.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;"> +<img src="images/img52.png" width="550" height="390" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p>If we smile, the mouth curves upward; if we grieve, the lines turn +downward.</p> + +<p><a name="para108" id="para108"></a></p> +<p>108. In festival decorations, joy is expressed by loops, curves and +festoons.</p> + +<p><a name="para109" id="para109"></a></p> +<p>109. In serious decorations (libraries, studies, church or office work) +straight lines are used; curtains are gathered in plaits so that the +sags and drapes are all out of them; they are drawn. It is the same when +we say of a person: “He looks serious, his face is drawn; it is full of +lines.”</p> + +<p>110. The observation, “a broad smile on his face,” +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> +means literally just +that; the lines extend outward and upward, giving an expression of +breadth and joy to the countenance.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>ILLUSION</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para111" id="para111"></a></p> +<p>111. A doorway looks wider that has at the top a drapery which crosses +in one complete curved sweep. A side-wall is larger apparently if along +the frieze line long, wide loops or festoons are arranged. The same wall +is more contracted and higher if treated in arrow-point forms of design.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;"> +<img src="images/img53.png" width="550" height="426" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p>The decorator should study these matters of +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> +illusion, for they are +vital to the success of his labor. (See <a href="#para116">¶ 116</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para112" id="para112"></a></p> +<p>112. Perpendicular lines contract the wall space and extend the apparent +height of a room; horizontal lines shorten the apparent height of the +ceiling and lengthen the width of the room. (See exceptions, <a href="#para119">¶ 119</a>.)</p> + +<p>These straight lines may be used where extremes are needed. (See pages +<a href="#Page_61">61</a> and <a href="#Page_63">63</a>.)</p> + +<p>A short doorway, for instance, looks higher where the portière is hung +in straight folds; so also with a cottage window.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/img54.png" width="450" height="234" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="para113" id="para113"></a></p> +<p>113. Every decorator who handles fabrics, every cabinetmaker who lays +out the woodwork of a room, every stained glass window maker, should +appreciate one fact: A line which is finished at the top or +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>bottom, or +both, with acute angles appears longer than the line that is finished +top and bottom with an obtuse or right angle. It is the same with the +finish of a wall frieze.</p> + +<p>If the wall frieze ends abruptly (<a href="#Page_57">Illustration A</a> on page 57), it is +foreshortened; if it is finished by angles (<a href="#Page_57">Illustration B</a>), the height +of the room is apparently greater. (See the illustration on page <a href="#Page_51">51</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para114" id="para114"></a></p> +<p>114. It is the same way with curves; given two lines of equal length and +enclose one with convex and the other with concave curves, and the line +enclosed convex will appear longer.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/img55.png" width="450" height="237" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Treated for Broken Heights.</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p> +<div class="figright" style="width: 278px;"> +<img src="images/img56a.png" width="278" height="300" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><a name="para115" id="para115"></a></p> +<p>115. In dress a collar brought down to an acute angle in the front of +the waist gives height effect, whereas a perfectly straight collar +around the neck reduces the apparent height and gives width effect.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 295px;"> +<img src="images/img56b.png" width="295" height="300" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><a name="para116" id="para116"></a></p> +<p>116. The use of arches should be studied. A space that is arched looks +wider than it actually is, for the eye unconsciously follows the lines +of the arch, and a distance or width effect is the result. The same +space treated with a straight line is quickly bridged. The same space +treated with lines that come to an angle looks narrower, for the reason +that the eye becomes focused by the apex of the angle, and a height +effect, not a breadth effect, is the result. (See page <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para117" id="para117"></a></p> +<p>117. This illusion is best shown in the illustrations of the parallel +lines that are crossed diagonally, with the result that the lines no +longer look parallel because of the angles. Nevertheless, they are +parallel, and the lines running diagonally at the bottom of this page +are also parallel.</p> + +<p>We present two practical illustrations of illusion in the use of lines. +(See <a href="#para112">¶ 112</a>.) They represent the side-walls of two rooms of the same +dimensions, but showing apparently different proportions, the +perpendicular lines making the side-wall look higher and the horizontal +lines making the side-wall look lower. (See page <a href="#Page_59">59</a>.)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;"> +<img src="images/img57a.png" width="550" height="378" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Illustration A.</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;"> +<img src="images/img57b.png" width="550" height="398" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Illustration B. (See <a href="#para113">¶ 113</a>.)</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img59a.png" width="600" height="307" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p>The length of the wall space is shortened, moreover, by the +perpendicular lines and lengthened by the horizontal lines.</p> + +<p><a name="para118" id="para118"></a></p> +<p>118. No period expresses more clearly the joy of curves as opposed to +the severity of straight lines than that voluptuous period of Louis XV +known as Rococo. It was a profligate era, an era of pleasure, and the +appended illustration of part of a frieze is in no way exaggerated, but +a true example of a common expression. (See page <a href="#Page_60">60</a>.)</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img59b.png" width="600" height="261" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/img60a.png" width="650" height="347" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="para119" id="para119"></a></p> +<p>119. Distinct perpendicular lines give height effect, but they also +narrow the apparent width of a wall space. It is best to have such line +effects indistinct unless they appear as in the illustration on page <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, +where they are intended to reduce the breadth effect of the pattern and +neutralize a squat tendency.</p> + +<p>Indistinct perpendiculars give height effect, and do not reduce the wall +width.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/img60b.png" width="650" height="171" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">(See <a href="#para111">¶ 111</a>.)</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img61.jpg" width="600" height="483" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Perpendicular lines, giving height effect.</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 402px;"> +<img src="images/img63.jpg" width="402" height="600" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Perpendicular lines, giving height effect.</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>COLOR TERMS</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para120" id="para120"></a></p> +<p>120. In the study of color and its application authorities differ so +materially that it is not only impossible to reconcile their theories, +but the different terms used to express color thought create +inextricable confusion.</p> + +<p><a name="para121" id="para121"></a></p> +<p>121. One authority fixes the neutrals as being black, gray and white; +another regards them as those hues or tones which lack definite color, +like quaternaries. Authorities differ, moreover, upon even the +fundamental principles. Chevreuil selects red, yellow and blue as the +primaries; Dr. Thomas Young selects red, green and violet. Helmholtz +selects carmine, pale green and blue-violet; Maxwell scarlet red, +emerald green and blue-violet; Professor Rood agrees with Maxwell; +Professor Church, of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, regards the +primaries as red, green and blue; George Hurst, the English authority, +fixes upon red, yellow and blue, the Brewsterian theory.</p> + +<p><a name="para122" id="para122"></a></p> +<p>122. One must remember always in studying color that we are treating +with the material, not with the illusion. We are dealing with pigments, +not with prismatic phenomena, and it must be obvious that the only three +primary colors that can be used in a way to produce all other colors are +red, yellow and blue.</p> + +<p>123. Whatever may be the spectrum theories of Sir Isaac Newton, Young or +Helmholtz, for practical reasons we prefer to follow an authority as +eminent as Chevreuil, for years the head of the National Gobelin Works +of France, and a man experienced in the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> +practice as well as the theory +of color. Any effort to fix the character of color and describe it by +periods and epochs will always prove unsatisfactory, for the reason that +terms and expressions have changed with every period since the Egyptian, +4000 B.C.</p> + +<p><a name="para124" id="para124"></a></p> +<p>124. We think we know purple until we discover that the purple of +royalty, the ermine and purple, the purple of the cardinals’ robes, +frequently approximated what we now call carmine. Royal purple and +Venetian blue are mere trade terms. Practical men in the purchase of +things decorative soon discover that color terms convey only individual +impressions and no distinctive qualities that may be relied upon; so +that any effort to fix the color value by periods would be futile. We +may assume that in the age of oak, mahogany, white and gold or walnut +furniture, the fabric and wall colors harmonized with the wood colors, +and to that degree we may fix the period character of color. The moment +that the tone of the woodwork or the light conditions varied, color +character varied also.</p> + +<p><a name="para125" id="para125"></a></p> +<p>125. We must also bear well in mind that colors which have come down to +us as examples of ancient times have been subjected to the changing +influences of centuries, and have faded and altered. The colors on the +walls of the historic rooms of European palaces have greatly altered. +The flat reds and the deadish blues of the Pompeiian frescoes have been +altered by chemical action during the 1,850 years’ burial under the lava +of Vesuvius. We are not justified in judging +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> +of the colors of A.D. 79 +by the restoration-examples in 1900. Hence the mere expressions +Pompeiian red, Pompeiian blue, can convey no definite, positive meaning.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> +<img src="images/img67.png" width="700" height="76" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 1.</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>COLOR VOCABULARY</strong></p> + +<p>126. In music, a tone which is formed by a certain number of vibrations +per second is the same the world over, and each and every tone has a +name; but in color no such standards exist. People have attempted to +formulate a system by denominating the primary colors, red, yellow and +blue, respectively as R, Y and B, and the combinations of these colors +as combinations of letters. For example, red, with varying degrees of +yellow added, is denominated by the letters R R O, or R O R, or O O R. +This system tends to confusion, and is inadequate to express tints and +shades. Various other systems have been devised. Color charts have been +made, and in each system arbitrary names have been assigned, so that +each color may be known by one of several names. The difficulty of +insuring accuracy under these circumstances becomes very evident.</p> + +<p><a name="para127" id="para127"></a></p> +<p>127. In discussing color combinations, one is usually confused because +the subject is not a tangible expression that can be grasped like the +sound of a note +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> +in music. With color charts, every maker has a standard +of his own and the term “red” may mean anything within a wide range; a +yellow-red or a blue-red, the yellow-red perhaps being cherry, the +blue-red perhaps being carmine. An appreciation of the Harmonies of +Contrast or Harmonies of Analogy or Relationship is accompanied by great +confusion because of this lack of standardization.</p> + +<p>128. There is only one true standard of color, and that is the standard +as shown in the prism, and expressed by the spectrum. It is within the +province of any man to determine the proper relationship of color if he +starts with the chart we here present. We fix definitely the three +primary and the three secondary colors, the primaries, red, yellow and +blue, being those indicated by the heavy black lines; the secondaries, +orange, green and violet, being indicated by the broad stipple lines.</p> + +<p>All other lines are the tertiary or quaternary colors.</p> + +<p>If we have clearly in our minds the appearance of the normal red and +yellow, and clearly in our minds the orange that is made up by combining +the two, we ought to be able to fix in our imagination the colors that +come midway between the red and the orange, or the colors that come +nearer the red or nearer the orange. Let us assume we are to select +colors in the harmony of <em>contrast</em>. Take a ruler and lay across the +chart and the contrasting colors are always opposite; the direct +contrast of red is green because green is +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> +composed of the other two +primary colors, yellow and blue; the contrast of blue is orange because +orange is a combination of the other two primaries, yellow and red; the +contrast of yellow is violet, a combination of blue and red.</p> + +<p>Now, to determine the niceties of distinction, let us take a red that is +a little off shade, a little yellowish; one must determine in the mind’s +eye about how much yellow there is in it and, to determine the true +contrast, carry your line across from the point which you think is +represented by the yellowish and you find that it is green with a little +blue added, or bluish-green.</p> + +<p>129. One must also determine the scale of color. The parallel circular +lines on the chart designate four scales, or four grades, of each color, +growing lighter by adding white, to the center; as you add more and more +white the tint becomes more and more light. In determining contrast, be +careful to stick to your scale. Contrasts, to be in harmony, must be +colors of the same scale.</p> + +<p>130. Harmony of analogy or relationship is clearly expressed in the +chart. The family relations of red are the things which go with red. We +may have a harmony of analogy in violet which includes the relations of +red and blue. We must not attempt to carry the family relationship too +far. There is a wide range of variety in these combinations of analogy +because they may include not only all scales of each color from the +darkest tones to the lightest tints but they include tertiaries and +quaternaries.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> +Each man must establish his own standard, and by establishing it he +forms unconsciously a very comprehensive understanding of color. It has +never been possible to print a true colored chart because no two copies +of the sheet off the press would be alike. A little more ink or a little +less ink, or a little lighter or a little heavier impression, changes +the values.</p> + +<p>The chart illustrates contrasts of all of the primaries and secondary +colors and the broken colors or hues. In the same way the tertiary or +quaternary colors may be arranged, but for convenience we show the +contrasts as follows:</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span style="margin-left: -5em;" class="smcap">Russet</span>:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: -2em;">Tertiary,</span><br /> + 32 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue<br /> + 31 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 17 parts Blue<br /> + 30 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 18 parts Blue<br /> + 29 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 19 parts Blue<br /> + 28 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 20 parts Blue<br /> + 27 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 21 parts Blue<br /> + 26 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 22 parts Blue<br /> + 25 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 23 parts Blue</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span style="margin-left: -5em;" class="smcap">Slate</span>:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: -2em;">Tertiary,</span><br /> + 32 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow<br /> + 31 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 17 parts Yellow<br /> + 30 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 18 parts Yellow<br /> + 29 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 19 parts Yellow<br /> + 28 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 20 parts Yellow<br /> + 27 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 21 parts Yellow<br /> + 26 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 22 parts Yellow<br /> + 25 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 23 parts Yellow</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span style="margin-left: -5em;" class="smcap">Citrine</span>:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: -2em;">Tertiary,</span><br /> + 32 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 16 parts Red<br /> + 31 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 17 parts Red<br /> + 30 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 18 parts Red<br /> + 29 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 19 parts Red<br /> + 28 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 20 parts Red<br /> + 27 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 21 parts Red<br /> + 26 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 22 parts Red<br /> + 25 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 23 parts Red</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span style="margin-left: -5em;" class="smcap">Sage</span>:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: -2em;">Quaternary,</span><br /> + 24 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 24 parts Yellow<br /> + 25 parts Yellow, 23 parts Blue, 16 parts Red<br /> + 26 parts Yellow, 22 parts Blue, 16 parts Red<br /> + 27 parts Yellow, 21 parts Blue, 16 parts Red<br /> + 28 parts Yellow, 20 parts Blue, 16 parts Red<br /> + 29 parts Yellow, 19 parts Blue, 16 parts Red<br /> + 30 parts Yellow, 18 parts Blue, 16 parts Red<br /> + 31 parts Yellow, 17 parts Blue, 16 parts Red</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span style="margin-left: -5em;" class="smcap">Buff</span>:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: -2em;">Quaternary,</span><br /> + 24 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 24 parts Red<br /> + 25 parts Red, 23 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue<br /> + 26 parts Red, 22 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue<br /> + 27 parts Red, 21 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue<br /> + 28 parts Red, 20 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue<br /> + 29 parts Red, 19 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue<br /> + 30 parts Red, 18 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue<br /> + 31 parts Red, 17 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span style="margin-left: -5em;" class="smcap">Plum</span>:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: -2em;">Quaternary,</span><br /> + 24 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 24 parts Blue<br /> + 25 parts Blue, 23 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow<br /> + 26 parts Blue, 22 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow<br /> + 27 parts Blue, 21 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow<br /> + 28 parts Blue, 20 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow<br /> + 29 parts Blue, 19 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow<br /> + 30 parts Blue, 18 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow<br /> + 31 parts Blue, 17 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 642px;"> +<img src="images/img73.png" width="642" height="700" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> +131. One who attempts to make color compositions with no more reliable +guide than taste can expect to accomplish no more than he who in music +possesses a good ear but no musical training.</p> + +<p><a name="para132" id="para132"></a></p> +<p>132. The note of discord in color is best avoided by an infallible +guide, as the discord in music is best avoided by thorough training in +the law of harmony. The color chart on page <a href="#Page_73">73</a> has been so arranged that +each of the shades is in exact harmony with the shade directly opposite.</p> + +<p>133. For example, to ascertain the color that is in harmony with the +shade denominated Red-Orange, it is necessary simply to lay a ruler +across the diagram to find the corresponding harmony, which is +Blue-Green.</p> + +<p>134. We know that the primary colors are red, yellow and blue, and that +the combination of any two of these gives a secondary color. The +secondary color is the complement of the remaining third color; thus +yellow and blue form green, and green is the complement or contrasting +harmony of red. Red and yellow form orange, and orange is the complement +of blue. Blue and red form violet, and violet is the complement of +yellow. These are facts we all know. Now, if red is the complement or +contrasting harmony of green, and yellow contrasts with violet, then red +with one, two or three degrees of yellow added will contrast with green +with one, two or three degrees of blue added.</p> + +<p>Assume, for example, that a decorator dealing with a red side-wall +wishes upholsterings in the correct +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> +shade of green. He knows he has a +red wall, he knows also that he wishes to use some shade of green, but +without some fixed standard it is impossible for him to do more than +approximate the correct shade of green to use. If, however, he could +compare the red of his wall with his color chart and determine exactly +which of the many shades of red, or which of the many yellow reds, or +blue reds, the wall is toned in, it is a simple process to ascertain the +exact green harmonizing with this red.</p> + +<p>The second great use of the color chart is then an infallible guide to +color harmony, whether analagous or contrasting.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> +<a href="images/img76_lg.png"> +<img src="images/img76.png" width="700" height="366" alt="image" title="" /></a> +<span class="caption">(TN: Click on image for large scale version.)</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para135" id="para135"></a></p> +<p>135. In considering artificial light, we will avoid all efforts to +analyze the different forms of energy, magnetic energy, electric energy, +heat energy, mechanical momentum, radiating energy, and deal with result +rather than with cause and effect. It will be sufficient to state as the +deduction of the scientist that certain waves or vibrations which affect +the fibers of the optic nerve are transmitted by the brain into color. +(<a href="#para3">¶ 3</a>.) Self-luminous bodies are bodies which produce light. Illuminated +bodies shine by borrowed light, and are distinguished by the different +amounts and quantities of light which they reflect. A dense cloud which +appears nearly black when between the observer’s eye and the sun, owing +to the degree of density with which it intercepts the light, may become +brilliantly white when the sun’s rays fall upon its constituent +particles, for the light which cannot penetrate the cloud is continually +reflected to and from the surface of its minute parts. Thus it happens +that the lower part of a cloud seen against a background of dark +mountain may appear white, while the upper part may appear dull gray. In +the alteration of reflection we +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> +have an alteration of color. A stick of +sealing wax will show in some positions white reflected light, while in +other positions we see only the red. A polished plane furnishes one kind +of reflection, a piece of chalk another.</p> + +<p>136. The decorator has for years past been disposed to defer to the +illuminating engineer in the artificial lighting of a home. But while +the technical man or engineer may have a knowledge of power and energy, +he has not studied the decorative value of lighting. His problem has +been economic rather than psychologic. The illuminating engineer cannot +be expected to appreciate fully the harmonies of color in decoration.</p> + +<p>137. It is the decorator’s province to consider not only the power of +light in the furnishing of a house, but the character of the light—not +only its color influence, but the structural character of its +introduction, as affecting these furnishings. It is beyond his province +to determine whether carbon should be replaced by tantalum, osmium or +tungsten to get higher efficiency, but he must understand the effects of +these lights and prescribe accordingly.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>ABSORPTION AND REFLECTION</strong></p> + +<p>138. The architect who designates the number and location of outlets for +the lighting sources, and specifies the candle-power of the lamps, knows +nothing of the ultimate decoration of the house. Very often the +specifications are finished before the color scheme has been decided +upon, and as a result the degree of +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> +illumination either falls short of +what is needed in case of dark-colored interiors, or proves excessive +with light-tinted rooms. The architect works from one point, economy, +the decorator from another, æsthetic; while the householder, the +consumer who pays the illuminating bills, cannot comprehend why his +lighting bills increase as his taste for luminous or dark-colored +furnishings is gratified. Many houses are left in the white plaster for +a year or more until the plaster settles. In this condition a small unit +of light is sufficient, but when the decorator completes his work, +adding fabrics and wall-papers which absorb and diminish the light, the +householder, unaware of the cause, notices a material increase in his +bills for illumination. These facts must be understood to be remedied, +and it remains for the illuminating engineer to determine by direct +experiment the value of any light as it affects and influences color, as +well as the value of color as it affects light. It may be assumed +without danger that the softest light is that of the candle, but we are +not living in the candle age, and have to deal with either gas or +electricity as the main illuminating agents.</p> + +<p>139. We have to consider the mercury arc light, the yellow flame carbon, +the white magnetite and titanium arc—all of high efficiency, giving +orange yellow in the flame-carbon to yellow and yellow white in the +acetyline of the tungsten filaments. Then we have the greenish yellow of +the Welsbach mantle, the bluish green of the mercury arc, the yellowish white +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span> +of the carbon arc, as well as the clear white of the titanium arc.</p> + +<p>140. The subject may be divided into three heads: Quality, or +approximation to natural light. Quantity, as demanded by reflection or +absorption. Installation, diffusion or mechanical distribution.</p> + +<p><a name="para141" id="para141"></a></p> +<p>141. Normal light is the light of general diffusion in daylight, and +when we can find an artificial light that has the character of natural +light we will have what is obviously the best illuminant for the home. +Bear in mind that natural light as it appears out of doors is materially +altered when indoors by the presence of different planes and angles, +which cast and receive various depths of shadow; the quality required is +that which will provide illumination without glare. The sun’s rays are +softened and mellowed by the depth of air through which they pass, and +it is this mellowness that is the chief requisite in illumination.</p> + +<p>Good decorative illumination does not mean illumination that reveals +every hidden corner of a room. We need shadows to betray form, relieve +monotony and give depth to the <em>ensemble</em>. If in an illuminated area +light is of a uniform intensity, we have a bad effect. The variation of +tone in a fabric is due to the light reaching it from a given point. +Differences in intensity make shadows and tones.</p> + +<p>142. The illuminating engineer treats the home as he treats a public +hall. He ignores the individuality of the room; the ball-room and the +sickroom are lighted +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span> +alike. He does not always consider the diminished +force of light as it passes through a refracting surface, for it must be +borne in mind that any method of indirect lighting by refraction is apt +to cause a loss of volume. The use of various kinds of globes or lamp +shades must all be considered. A light-colored wall reflects +illumination, a dark-colored wall absorbs it; hence the amount of +illumination is increased or diminished by the color of the walls.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>LIGHT EFFECT ON COLOR</strong></p> + +<p>143. To illuminate a city, with the dull grim environment of streets and +houses, a soft yellow glow will give warmth and tone; the greenish +yellow of the Welsbach or the blue green of the mercury arc may even be +desirable, but the same green or violet rays are ghastly in a house, and +should never be permitted.</p> + +<p>144. The warm glow of the yellow light, while pleasing to the +complexion, is, however, objectionable as disturbing the color +composition of dress or furnishings. A gaslight sends a yellow glow over +all that it reaches, and has the same effect as the introduction of +yellow into every color tint in the room. The walls that are red take on +a scarlet hue; the scarlet ones are yellowed to orange; the blues become +greenish.</p> + +<p>145. In order that the decorator may more readily grasp the subject, we +have arranged a table showing the color changes effected by rays of +yellow, blue, green and violet:</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p> + + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;">Orange rays falling on white make it appear orange.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">red it appears reddish-orange.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">orange it appears deeper orange.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">yellow it appears orange-yellow.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">green it appears dark yellow-green.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">blue it appears dark reddish-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">violet it appears dark purplish-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">black it appears brownish-black.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;">Yellow rays falling on white make it appear yellow.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">red make it appear orange-brown.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">orange make it appear orange-yellow.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">yellow make it appear deeper yellow.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">green make it appear yellowish-green.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">blue make it appear slaty-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">violet make it appear purplish-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">black make it appear olive-black.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;">Green rays falling on white make it appear green.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">red make it appear yellowish-brown.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">orange make it appear grayish-leaf-green.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">yellow make it appear yellowish-green.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">green make it appear deeper green.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">blue make it appear bluish-green.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">violet make it appear bluish-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">black make it appear dark greenish-gray.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;">Blue rays falling on white make it appear blue.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">red make it appear purple.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">orange make it appear plum-brown.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">yellow make it appear yellowish-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">green make it appear bluish-green.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">blue make it appear deeper blue.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">violet make it appear bluer.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">black make it appear bluish-black.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;">Violet rays falling on white make it appear violet.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">red make it appear purple.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">orange make it appear reddish-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">yellow make it appear purplish-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">green make it appear bluish-gray.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">blue make it appear bluish-violet.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">violet make it appear deeper violet.</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">“</span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">black make it appear violet-black.</span></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span> +146. The pale tints of electric lights, which make every face in a room +look ghastly, will affect quite as disastrously every soft color in the +furnishings. In ordinary gaslight a pair of white gloves looks yellow, +and we have seen Welsbach lamps which threw out a violet-blue +illumination, depressing in the extreme. Under a yellow glow, blues, +greens, violets and purples are greatly changed. Under a violet glow, +yellows and greens are ruined. To see all colors in about the same value +that they possess by daylight one must have a light in which no color +tone is apparent.</p> + +<p>The question as to the disposition and intensity of the lights is of +vital importance, and must be considered with the requirements of each +particular room in mind.</p> + +<p>147. For the drawing-room and reception-room it is desirable that all +parts of the room be evenly lighted, without a pronounced glare in any +particular part of the room. One of the most effective ways of +accomplishing this is by distributing the lights around the room, either +on the ceiling, in the cove or above a wide molding, so that the ceiling +acts as a reflecting agent, and distributes an even tone of light to all +parts.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>ILLUMINATION</strong></p> + +<p>148. For the dining-room and living-room a different plan must be used, +because of the different requirements. The table is usually in such +rooms the chief feature of the furnishings, and it is customary to focus +upon it the main body of light. While this is +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> +obviously necessary, the +surroundings must not be ignored; neither is it possible to raise the +center light to such a height that its radiation may reach all parts of +the room, because in so doing the light reaches the eye at an extremely +unpleasant angle. The drop fixture should be low enough to effectively +light all parts of the table, while at the same time its shade should +screen the light from the eyes of the room’s occupants. To illuminate +the surrounding parts of the room other lights should be distributed +where they will most effectively supply what further illumination is +required.</p> + +<p>149. For the bedroom or boudoir the location of the lights should also +be subordinated to the purposes of the room, and in addition to +providing sufficient illumination to the entire area, special +illumination should be provided for the mirrors and the dressing-table. +The lights for the mirrors should be planned to illuminate the person +and not the image.</p> + +<p>150. For large reception-rooms in hotels and public institutions the +plan is frequently adopted of having all light provided by small table +lamps with opalescent shades. These provide a medium glow throughout the +entire room that is pleasing, and avoid entirely the garishness usually +associated with such rooms. One of the mistakes of the day is the use of +high-power lights, which are so intense that they require to be screened +or shaded, involving waste of light and concentrating an unnecessary +amount of illumination upon a narrow sphere.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>REFLECTIVE POWER OF COLOR</strong></p> + +<p>The following table will give an idea of the percentage of light +reflected from ordinary wall-hangings and papers:</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='center'>Per Cent.<br />Reflection</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White blotting-paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.82</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>White cartridge-paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.80</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Ordinary foolscap</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.70</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Ordinary newspaper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.50 to .70</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Chrome yellow paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.62</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Orange paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.50</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Yellow wall-paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.40</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Yellow painted wall (clean)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.40</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Tracing cloth, pale blue</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.35</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Light pink paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.36</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.25</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Emerald green</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.18</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Dark brown paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.13</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Vermilion paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.12</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Blue green paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.12</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Cobalt blue paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>.12</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Black paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>0.5</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Deep chocolate paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>0.4</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>French ultramarine blue paper</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>3.5</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Black cloth</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>1.2</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Black velvet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='right'>0.4</td> </tr> + +</table></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p>151. It is very difficult to select practical artificial illuminants, +because of the various color properties possessed by each. A Welsbach +mantle, which gives a greenish tint, is pretty sure to alter the +character of any color other than green. Incandescent electric light, as +well as ordinary gaslight, contains a yellow tint.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>THE COLOR OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS</strong></p> + +<p>152. In planning or matching colors for a room, it is best to consider +the purpose for which the room is to be used, and match the colors under +the same light conditions that will prevail in the finished room.</p> + +<p>Deep, full colors are less affected by the shadings in artificial +illuminants than lighter tones of the same color.</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='center'><span class="smcap">Illuminant</span>.</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='center'><span class="smcap">Color</span>.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Sun (high in sky)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>White.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Sun (near horizon)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Orange red.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Sky light</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Bluish white.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Electric arc (short)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>White.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Electric arc (long)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Bluish white to violet.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Nernst lamp</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>White.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Incandescent (normal)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Yellow-white.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Incandescent (below voltage)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Orange to orange-red.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Acetyline flame</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Nearly white.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Welsbach light</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Greenish white.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Gaslight (Siemens burner)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Nearly white, faint yellow tinge.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Gaslight (ordinary)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Yellowish white to pale orange.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Kerosene lamp</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Yellowish white to pale orange.</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'>Candle</td> <td class="tdp"></td> <td align='left'>Orange yellow.</td> </tr> + +</table></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>ARTIFICIAL LIGHT APPLICATION</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para153" id="para153"></a></p> +<p>153. The introduction of light by the medium of a wire, which may be +carried to any point in a room, encourages so many possibilities for +comfort and effect that it behooves us to forget traditional customs +which were established during the gaslight period. The introduction of +gaslight through tubes was a rather complex problem, and the carrying of +the pipes into the room through a main chandelier was the most +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> +advisable constructive form. But we have no need for such cumbersome +fixtures in this day of wiring.</p> + +<p>A mere cord takes the place of an inch pipe. Modern German and Austrian +lighting fixtures frequently are mere pendants, with the cord frankly in +evidence. In this way the lights may be placed wherever needed—at the +head of the lounge, so one may read more clearly by it; close by the +piano; over the tea-table. In fact, supplementary lights to the general +illumination are a convenience that the decorator should consider.</p> + +<p>154. The lighting of a house is a matter so dependent upon æsthetic +conditions that it is never within the scope of the electrician. It is a +problem for a decorator alone to solve. Intense and glaring lights of +unusual power must be avoided. Luminants of low intrinsic brilliancy are +preferable.</p> + +<p><a name="para155" id="para155"></a></p> +<p>155. The floor is the least important surface for illumination, and has +no reflecting power of value. The walls vary in value according to their +color and surface. With lights radiating upward, however, the ceiling +possesses definite power, and should be considered.</p> + +<p><a name="para156" id="para156"></a></p> +<p>156. Dark colors absorb light, while white and light colors reflect, and +this must always be remembered; for upon the character of the +decorations and furnishings of various rooms the quantity as well as the +quality of light has serious influence.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>POWER NECESSARY</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para157" id="para157"></a></p> +<p>157. While the list which we give herewith is +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span> +based largely upon area, +it may be taken as a basis of calculation for lighting equipment.</p> + +<p>It is estimated that 300 square feet of a hallway requires four +sixteen-candlepower, or eight eight-candlepower units.</p> + +<p>In a room 20 x 20 feet, with furnishings of mahogany and green, broken +up by bookcases and other furniture producing heavy shadows, it is +estimated that twelve eight-candlepower lights are sufficient if worked +into the frieze, and that a reading lamp of not less than +thirty-two-candlepower be used as a drop light.</p> + +<p>Assuming a room is 15 x 15 feet, and furnished in light tones, four +eight-candlepower lamps are ample.</p> + +<p>A living-room 20 x 25 feet, in light tones of color, requires two +thirty-two-candlepower lights, centrally located, and about twelve +eight-candlepower lights. This should provide brilliant illumination.</p> + +<p>A room 15 x 20 feet, in dark wood and hangings, needs eight +eight-candlepower reflector lamps, backed up by six more +eight-candlepower lamps.</p> + +<p>Bedrooms 15 x 15 feet in size, where they are not furnished in deep +colors, should be equipped with two sixteen-candlepower lights.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>COLOR CONTROL</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para158" id="para158"></a></p> +<p>158. Mechanical lighting is so easily undertaken that it predisposes one +to extravagance. Properly applied, artificial light adds materially to +the charm of a room, but with illumination secured by the mere twist of +the wrist one is prone to ignore the value of shadows and kill the +beauty of light and shade by throwing +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> +illumination into the remotest +corners. The danger to good decoration is not only in overlighting, but +in overdecorating, and commercialism naturally encourages this tendency. +The floor is frequently best treated if not entirely covered with a +one-pattern treatment; the walls are frequently most pleasing if done in +several papers instead of one. The most effective room is the one +lighted in various degrees of strength, and while the decorator +unconsciously follows this idea and avoids superabundance of pattern by +using panels, friezes and wainscotings, we believe that each and every +section or part of a room should be treated separately, observing, of +course, a consistent spirit of design, preserving the period style and +the general color effect; we would vary the actual shade of coloring and +the size of pattern according to the dimensions of the wall space it +occupies. The large patterns and the strong colorings which may be +appropriate to an exposed wall are all out of proportion in narrow or +darkened confines. Dark and deep recesses should obviously be treated +differently to advanced or conspicuous spaces.</p> + +<p><a name="para159" id="para159"></a></p> +<p>159. At a recent meeting of the Illuminating Engineering Society, D. +McFarlan Moore made the following observations: “A few years ago there +was practically no way of changing the colors of the various forms of +lamps, that is, the candle had its color perforce; such a thing as +modifying it was not dreamed of. The oil lamp had its color; the open +burner gas flame its color, the incandescent lamp its color, and the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> +arc lamp its color. At the present time there are only two ways widely +in use of varying the color; that is, if a person wishes to have a light +of a different color, there are two main ways of getting it. One way is +to get another light source, and the other way is to use a diffusion +globe of some kind, which in any instance is extremely unscientific and +inefficient. Some of the most recent advances in this line are connected +with the flaming arc lamp. There we have an instance where the first +step, at least, was taken toward scientifically controlling the color +value. I refer to placing different chemicals in the carbon and thereby +obtaining a color which can, to a very great extent, be determined +previously. But still it by no means can be said that by means of the +flaming arc lamp the color factor is under perfect control. However, it +is possible now to have the color value under perfect control, and this +is obtained by utilizing a vacuum tube, and by changing the various +gases used in the tube to change the color. This has many advantages, +and from a scientific standpoint it cannot be criticised, as can the +other methods which have been used. For example, if you use a properly +regulated vacuum tube and feed it with air only, a pink light results; +if you feed it with nitrogen a yellow light results, and such a light +can be used for a great many purposes; in fact its range of usefulness +so far as the color is concerned, is about the same as that of the +ordinary incandescent lamp, and therefore can be used by florists or by +clothing merchants, and the distortion is not any worse than +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> that of +the ordinary incandescent lamp. However, it is not by any means claimed +that when a tube is fed nitrogen, that the color is at all near +daylight; it is simply a color which appears about the same as that +produced by the ordinary incandescent lamp. Due to the enormous +radiating surfaces of the tube, the color in day time looks considerably +redder than that of the incandescent lamp because the lamp is extremely +small as compared with the tube. When such a tube is fed with carbon +dioxide at a definite pressure, and at a definite intensity, a light is +obtained that undoubtedly is closer to average daylight color values +than any light which has ever been produced before, and we can almost +say that it is entirely satisfactory. For instance, experts in matching +colors in the largest dye works of this country, men who have tried all +other forms of light, and found them not at all suitable for their uses, +have matched their colors under a vacuum tube supplied with carbon +dioxide and have found after months of practical use that they could not +detect any difference between most delicate lavender shades, when they +are matched at night time under the tube and in day time by daylight, +not direct sunlight.”</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><strong>DRESS AND COMPLEXION</strong></p> + +<p><a name="para160" id="para160"></a></p> +<p>160. The nerves of the eye, exhilarated by any pronounced color, +unconsciously observe the complement of that color when turned from it. +The eye accustomed to the red of a woman’s dress, unconsciously sees a +greenish cast in the face that is naturally pale, and in the same way +the pallor of a woman’s face takes on a tint of red as the complement +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> +or contrast of a green dress. As one’s appetite for the thing that is +sweet becomes exhausted by a superabundance of sweets, so the eye +resting upon a mass of red in the dress of a woman fails to appreciate +the red tint in the face, and the face thus juxtaposed becomes pallid. A +red-faced woman often wears brighter red in dress, so that her face may +appear less red. The blue dress gives yellow to the face; the yellow +dress gives blue; these results are altered materially by the +intervention of white between the face and the dress. White intensifies +color. If there is a tinge of pink in the face white brings it out. If +there is sallowness in the face white accentuates it. It is for this +reason that many women wear yellow instead of white at the neck, so that +the yellow of the face becomes less conspicuous by contrast. (See <a href="#para31">¶ 31</a>.)</p> + +<p><a name="para161" id="para161"></a></p> +<p>161. It is dangerous, however, in matters of dress to strictly apply +this rule, because color has a temperamental influence apart from the +purely visual. Some women are positively depressed by certain colors; +such colors are to be avoided, no matter what the deductions of theory. +(See <a href="#para94">¶ 94</a>.)</p> + +<p>162. The black dress will make a woman look pale, for the reason that +the black absorbs whatever color there may be in her face. A dark color +has also absorbent characteristics. The lighter the color, the less +absorbent. Hence light greens are preferable to bring out the color in +the face than dark greens, assuming that we are to consider only this point, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> +which is all that is necessary to consider in house decoration. +Therefore light greens as a background to theater boxes or as a wall +background are always desirable.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/img93.png" width="450" height="451" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Lighting by wires. See <a href="#para153">¶ 153</a>.</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><strong>COLOR TERMS</strong></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"> +<span class="smcap">Broken Color</span>. Color changed by the addition of black, + white or gray.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Chroma</span>. Color.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Cold Colors</span> are colors containing very little, if any, red or + yellow.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Contrast Analogies</span>. Apparent contrasts of secondary and + tertiary colors which have constituent parts that are + related. Thus compositions of citrine and plum are apparent + contrasts, citrine being one of the three tertiary + colors, russet, slate and citrine, and plum being composed + of russet and slate, but in both citrine and plum + there is red, yellow and blue; hence related. There can + be no true contrasts excepting between primaries and + secondaries.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Gray</span>. Normal gray is black and white mixed, but quaternary + colors are also called grays, or colors of the dull or + neutral scale.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Harmony of Analogy</span> is produced by using related colors.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Harmony of Contrast</span>. The juxtaposition of a primary + color, for example, with a secondary made of the other + two primaries. Thus of the primaries red, yellow and + blue, the contrasts would be red and green. Of the two + colors thus forming contrast the one is said to be the + <span class="smcap">Complementary</span> of the other.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Hue</span>. Applied to the predominating color in a composition.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Intense or Saturated Colors</span>. Colors that are pure, having + no tint or shade.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Neutral Colors</span>. Applied to black, gray and quaternary + colors.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span></p> +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Normal</span>. Intense colors of the prism. Colors of the natural + scale.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Prismatic Colors</span> are the colors viewed through a prism.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Quaternary Colors</span>. Made by combining two tertiary colors. + Quaternary colors are plum, sage and buff.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Scale</span>. Relates to colors of the same degree of tone.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Secondary Colors</span>. Orange, green and violet, each a combination + of two primaries.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Shade</span>. Produced by the addition of black to a normal color.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Sombre Colors</span>. Blue, violet and the subdued tones of luminous + colors.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Spectrum</span>. The illusion of color produced by means of the + prism.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Tertiary Colors</span>. Made by combining two secondary colors; + tertiary colors are slate, russet and citrine.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Tint</span>. Produced by the addition of white to a normal color.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Tones</span> are the gradations of color by adding either black or + white.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Warm Colors</span> or luminous colors are those having normal + yellow or red in the preponderance.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Advancing Colors</span>. Reds and bright yellow arouse the nerve + sense more quickly than blue or tones of color predominating + in blue. Hence they are called advancing colors.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 20%; text-indent: -2em; margin-right: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Receding Colors</span>. Blue colors or colors in which blue predominate + or the exciting influences of yellow or red are + subjugated, are cold or receding colors.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p> + +<h2>TABLE OF CONTENTS</h2> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'>Paragraph.</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'>Page.</td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Adjoining Rooms</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para38">38 to 47</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'><p><a name="paraadv" id="paraadv"></a></p>Advancing Colors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para77">77</a>, <a href="#para78">78</a>, <a href="#para79">79</a>, <a href="#para80">80</a>, <a href="#para89">89</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Angles, Illusion of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para113">113</a>, <a href="#para114">114</a>, <a href="#para115">115</a>, <a href="#para117">117</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Artificial Light, Colors of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Balance of Pattern</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para75">75</a>, <a href="#para76">76</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Borders</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para61">61</a>, <a href="#para62">62</a>, <a href="#para81">81</a>, <a href="#para86">86</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Bric-à-brac</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Black, The Use of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para33">33</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Color Nomenclature</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para9">9</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Complexion</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para160">160</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Contrasting Colors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para12">12</a>, <a href="#para14">14 to 24</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Contrast Analogies</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para17">17 to 20</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Ceiling</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para37">37</a>, <a href="#para42">42</a>, <a href="#para43">43</a>, <a href="#para93">93</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Curtains</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para53">53 to 56</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Cove and Ceiling</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para56">56</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Cornice</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para63">63</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Chair Coverings</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para64">64</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Colors that Give Size to a Room</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'>(See <a href="#pararc">Receding Colors</a>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Carpet</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para81">81</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Color Sympathies</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para95">95</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'><p><a name="paracv" id="paracv"></a></p>Curves, The Use of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para107">107</a>, <a href="#para108">108</a>, <a href="#para111">111</a>, <a href="#para114">114</a>, <a href="#para116">116</a>, <a href="#para118">118</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Color Terms</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para120">120 to 134</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Chart</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para127">127</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Dress, Depressing Influences</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para161">161</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Dress, Woman’s</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para160">160</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Decorative Illumination</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para141">141</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Definitions</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Draperies</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'><p><a name="paradp" id="paradp"></a></p>Decorative Proportions</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Exciting Colors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para94">94</a>, <a href="#para160">160</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Frieze, The Use of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'>(See <a href="#parawp">Wall Proportions</a>,<br />also <a href="#pararmc">Room Combinations</a>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Floors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para42">42</a>, <a href="#para81">81</a>, <a href="#para84">84</a>, <a href="#para86">86</a>, <a href="#para87">87</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Gray, The Use of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para32">32</a>, <a href="#para91">91</a>, <a href="#para92">92</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Guide to Color Harmony</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para127">127</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Harmonies Mechanically Determined</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para132">132</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Height Effects</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para75">75</a>, <a href="#para76">76</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Harmony of Analogy</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para13">13</a>, <a href="#para17">17</a>, <a href="#para27">27</a>, <a href="#para93">93</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Harmonies</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para10">10</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Illusion in the Use of Lines</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para107">107 to 119</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Intensification of Color</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para31">31</a>, <a href="#para33">33</a>, <a href="#para159">159</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Joy in Lines</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'>(See <a href="#paracv">Curves</a>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Lights and Shadows</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para158">158</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Lighting a Room, Candle-power Needed</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para157">157</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Light Installation</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_84">84</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Light, Effect on Color</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Luminous Colors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'>(See <a href="#paraadv">Advancing Colors</a>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Large Room, Dark</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Low-Ceiling Rooms</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para58">58</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Large Rooms</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para58">58</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Large, Well-Lighted Rooms</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para26">26</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Light</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para1">1</a>, <a href="#para8">8</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Mixing Colors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para8">8</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Neutrals</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para121">121</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>National Types of Color</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Nature Colors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para35">35</a>, <a href="#para96">96</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>North Light</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para37">37</a>, <a href="#para59">59</a>, <a href="#para90">90</a>, <a href="#para91">91</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Proportions in Color Contrast</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para22">22 to 24</a>, <a href="#para28">28 to 30</a>, <a href="#para35">35</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Pigments, The Use of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para22">22</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Proportions Effected by Design</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'>(See <a href="#paradp">Decorative Proportions</a>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Proportions Effected by Color</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para77">77</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Period Uses of Color</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Psychology of Color</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para94">94</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Picture Moldings</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para50">50</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Plate-Rails</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para48">48 to 59</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Progression of Color</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para34">34</a>, <a href="#para39">39</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Prismatic Colors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para6">6</a>, <a href="#para7">7</a>, <a href="#para8">8</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'><p><a name="pararmc" id="pararmc"></a></p>Room Combinations</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23 to 28</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Rugs</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para81">81</a>, <a href="#para84">84</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Rooms Under Normal Conditions</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'><p><a name="pararc" id="pararc"></a></p>Receding Colors</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para77">77</a>, <a href="#para80">80</a>, <a href="#para89">89</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Reflection</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para5">5</a>, <a href="#para135">135</a>, <a href="#para155">155</a>, <a href="#para156">156</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Spectrum</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para1">1</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Small Dark Rooms</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para21">21</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Small Well-Lighted Rooms</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para25">25</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Sequence of Color</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para34">34</a>, <a href="#para35">35</a>, <a href="#para36">36</a>, <a href="#para41">41</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>South Light</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para37">37</a>, <a href="#para59">59</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Side-wall</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para48">48 to 57</a>, <a href="#para92">92</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Small Room, High Ceiling</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Small Room, Low Ceiling</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Side-wall as Keynote</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para92">92</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'><p><a name="parasl" id="parasl"></a></p>Straight Lines, Effect of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para107">107</a>, <a href="#para109">109</a>, <a href="#para111">111-113</a>, <a href="#para115">115-117</a>, <a href="#para119">119</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Seriousness in Lines</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'>(See <a href="#parasl">Straight Lines</a>)</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Spectrum Theories</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para121">121</a>, <a href="#para122">122</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Trade Terms Meaningless</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para124">124</a>, <a href="#para125">125</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Taste in Color, to Determine</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para94">94</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'> </td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>White, The Use of</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para31">31</a>, <a href="#para33">33</a>, <a href="#para88">88</a>, <a href="#para89">89</a>, <a href="#para98">98</a>, <a href="#para159">159</a>, <a href="#para160">160</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Wood Trims</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para48">48 to 59</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Wainscoting</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para48">48 to 57</a>, <a href="#para62">62</a>, <a href="#para93">93</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'>Width Effects</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#para82">82 to 85</a>, <a href="#para87">87</a></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> </tr> + +<tr> <td align='left'><p><a name="parawp" id="parawp"></a></p>Wall Proportions</td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'></td> <td class="tdp"></td> + <td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33 to 34</a></td> </tr> + +</table></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Color Value, by C. 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R. Clifford + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Color Value + +Author: C. R. Clifford + +Release Date: April 11, 2008 [EBook #25042] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COLOR VALUE *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Anne Storer and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +Transcriber's Note: (TN: --) in text = comments added by Transcriber. + + + * * * * * + + + + + Color Value + + _By_ C. R. CLIFFORD + + _Published by_ CLIFFORD & LAWTON + 373 Fourth Avenue, New York + + + + + Copyrighted, 1907 + By Clifford & Lawton + + Fourth Edition + + GROLIER CRAFT PRESS, INC., N. Y. + + + + +FUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONS + +LIGHT, COLOR, FORM, PROPORTION +AND DIMENSIONS + + +Whatever is good in interior decoration is the result of consistent +relationship between Light, Color, Form, Proportion and Dimensions. The +choice of Color should be guided by the conditions of Light. The beauty +of Form and the symmetry of Proportion can exist only by a balance with +Dimensions. + +Therefore, apart from any knowledge of historic or period decoration, +effective or successful work must observe the technical laws governing +conditions. + + +#LIGHT# + +1. The white light of the sun is compounded of an almost innumerable +number of color elements, as shown by the phenomena of the rainbow or by +experimenting with the prism. (See ¶ 7.) When a ray of sunshine passes +through a glass prism it is decomposed or separated, and if the +prismatic colors are received upon a white screen you will find on the +spectrum among the colors generated a pure blue, a pure red and a pure +yellow. These are the primary colors, and it is necessary when thinking +color to bear these prismatic colors in mind as standards. + +2. Color is an internal sensation originating in the excitation of the +optic nerve by a wave action which we call light. + +3. The theory of light, the wave theory, is based upon the assumption +that throughout all space there is an infinitely thin medium called +ether. Scientists differ as to what this may be, but its movements +constitute light, a reflection from a luminous body. + +4. Everything which we see is visible because it either emits light, +like a flame, or reflects light. + +5. A piece of black cloth upon a white plate reflects but a small +proportion of the light. The plate reflects a large proportion. A piece +of black velvet reflects less light than black cloth and gives the +effect of absolute blackness, or an empty and dark space. + +6. In practical demonstrations the study of color will be confusing +unless it is understood at the outstart that pure prismatic colors can +seldom be found in manufactured pigments, hence any demonstration of the +theory of color composition is usually unsatisfactory. + +7. The theory which brings out of a ray of sunshine the disunited +prismatic colors carries with it the deduction that before separation +these colors constitute white light; but it must be manifest to even the +superficial reader that such colors are mere spectrum colors--vision +colors--and any amalgamation of material or pigment colors, so far from +producing white, produces almost black. + +8. The theory that red and yellow make orange, and that a red and blue +make violet, is correct; but if one attempts to demonstrate the theory +with pigments, one is confronted not only by the lack of standard +manufactured colors but by impurities, adulterations and chemical +reaction in the pigments. The adulteration may not be perceptible in one +primary color, but it is manifest when that color is brought into action +with another primary, for it is seldom that a pure secondary results. + + +#COLOR NOMENCLATURE--HARMONIES# + +9. Color nomenclature includes primary, secondary and tertiary colors, +and innumerable hues, shades and tints. All these colors bear relations +to one another, either relations of analogy, or relations of contrast. +(See ¶ 18 and ¶ 19.) + +The Circle Diagram I shows the manner in which the various colors are +formed. (See also Diagram III.) + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM I] + +The third circle shows how slate, citrine and russet are made. For +instance, slate is one part of violet and one part of green. Hence, a +tertiary color is made of equal parts of two secondaries. + +The outer circle, buff, sage and plum, can be analyzed in the same way. + +This Diagram I is arranged to show not only component parts of a color, +but the parts that properly harmonize. + + +#CONTRASTS# + +10. In music it is an established fact that certain notes used in +pleasing combination produce sounds we call harmonies. The moment that +more than one note is struck, there is danger of discord, and when ten +notes resound to the touch of the player, they must be the right notes, +or they jar upon the sensibilities. In the use of color the same +immutable law applies. + +11. In Circle Diagram II the letters RV mean reddish violet, being a +violet having more red than blue in its composition. BV means bluish +violet, being a violet having more blue than red in its composition. BG +means bluish green, being a green having more blue than yellow in its +composition. YG means yellow green, being a green having more yellow +than blue in its composition. YO means yellowish orange, being an orange +having more yellow than red in its composition. RO means reddish orange, +being an orange having more red than yellow in its composition. Thus we +may advance from red to yellow by graduations almost imperceptible, by +the addition of yellow, to a reddish orange, and so on gradually to +orange, continuing on to yellowish orange, finally revealing pure +yellow. + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM II] + +12. The contrasting color at any stage may be determined by proceeding +in a direct line across the circle: Red has for its contrasting color +green; hence, reddish orange would have for its contrasting color a +bluish green, for the simple reason that if red contrasts with green +and orange contrasts with blue, the color between the red and the orange +would contrast with the color between the green and the blue. Let us +determine the contrasting color for crimson. Crimson is simply a red +slightly tinged with blue. If red contrasts with green, a shade a little +to the left of red slightly tinged with blue would contrast with a shade +a little to the right of green slightly tinged with yellow. In other +words, crimson, RV, would contrast with yellowish green, YG. Determine +at what point of the circle any color that you have in mind will come, +and the contrasting color would be immediately opposite. + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM III] + +13. The harmony of analogy consists of the harmony of related colors or +tones of one color. (See ¶ 17.) + +14. The harmony of contrast consists of colors in no way related. As an +example of the harmony of analogy, we would mention red and orange, +because both of these colors have ingredients in common, red being one +of the two component parts of orange. As an example of the harmony of +contrast, we suggest red and green, because there is nothing in common +between the two, red being a primary color, and green a secondary, +composed of the other two primaries, yellow and blue. (See ¶ 17.) + +15. Green is called the complement of red. The complement of blue +would be orange, because orange is formed by combining the remaining +primaries, red and yellow; and the complement of yellow would be violet, +because violet is composed of blue and red, the other primaries. + +16. In Diagram II we have arranged at opposite points the primaries 1, +the secondaries 2, the tertiaries 3, the quaternaries 4. + +But Diagram III goes further into the subject. + +It is easy to understand the composition of secondaries, but it is not +so easy to know the tertiaries and quaternaries. (See also Diagram I.) + + +#CONTRAST ANALOGIES# + +17. Diagram III is of the utmost value to the colorist, illustrating not +only the composition of color, but showing the origin of each secondary +from the two primaries, the origin of each tertiary from two +secondaries, and of each quaternary from two tertiaries. It shows by +groupings the harmonies of analogy or related colors; also the harmonies +of contrast: By moving on the board one color on one line to another +color upon another line, like the moving of a knight in a game of chess, +and confining the moves always to adjoining lines, like yellow to +violet, violet to citrine, citrine to plum, plum to brown. Yellow and +violet are true contrasts, the one color having nothing in common with +the other. The citrine and the plum, however, are approximate contrasts. +For greater convenience, we have numbered the contrasting colors A's and +B's. Absolute contrast is where the two colors have nothing in common. +For composition purposes, however, citrine and violet may be considered +contrasts, or correctly speaking, contrast analogies. (See ¶ 19.) + +18. A harmony of contrast means the utilization of a primary color with +its complementary, or a color in conjunction with another color in no +degree related: a primary with a secondary. But when we soften these +contrasting colors by the addition of white we have in the lighter tints +a scale of chroma that is a form of analogy. + +19. All combinations of secondary and tertiary colors, while apparently +harmonies of contrast (the tertiary being made by the composition of two +secondaries), constitute, in fact, contrast analogies, because by +analysis we find that all tertiaries possess color components occurring +in the apparently contrasting secondaries. (See Diagram III.) + +20. The harmony of contrast, literally, can only occur in the pure +primary colors juxtaposed to the pure secondary colors, for in no case +does the color formed by the combination of the two primaries have +anything in common with the third primary; while a tertiary composed of +two secondaries invariably has qualities possessed by the third +secondary. + +21. In a room which is small or dark, the light tints in harmonies of +analogy are advisable. + + +#PROPORTIONS# + +22. In the use of one color with another of contrasting character the +question frequently arises, what proportion of each should be used to +obtain the best effect? Illustrative color books show usually samples of +color of the same size, leading one unconsciously to the error that +contrasting colors should occupy the same surface dimensions. + +23. In every room there must be a prevailing or dominant color, and the +use of a contrasting color must be limited to proportions which give +simply a pleasing emphasis. Let us assume that a room has a deep frieze +pronouncedly green. To treat the rest of the wall in red of a direct +contrast would be ineffective. + +24. If a rule can be applied we would say that no strong normal color +should be used in large surfaces. If we were dealing with pigments we +would say that if one-sixth of a side-wall is devoted to a frieze in +green, the balance of the wall space should be treated with the same +amount of red, mixed with the same amount of gray. + +25. For a room that is small and well lighted the fresh tints are not +as desirable as the gray shades or tertiaries in conjunction with +secondaries. + + +#COLOR IN LARGE OR SMALL ROOMS# + +26. For a large room well lighted, yellow, red and orange in delicate +shades are not as desirable as orange, violet and russet in light +shades. This rule, however, may be reversed for a large room that is +dimly lighted. + +A superabundance of light gives an uncomfortable glare. + +27. One may mechanically obtain harmony of analogy in proper proportions +for the treatment of a room or a design by following the guidance of +Diagram I. It will be noted in this diagram that the inner circle is +blue, red and yellow, the primary colors. + +The second circle is composed of the secondaries; the third circle, the +tertiaries, and the outer circle, the quaternaries. + +There is a nice distinction in the combination of primaries for the +formation of secondaries, and exact proportions are quite necessary. + +An orange, for instance, would be off shade if it did not consist of +half red and half yellow, but in the making of the quaternaries, which +are, at best, gray shades, exact proportions are not necessary. + +Nevertheless, in Diagram I we have observed exact proportions in order +to make our demonstration clear. + +The harmony of analogy is the combination of colors related, but the +relationship must be displayed in proportions consistent with the origin +of each and every color used. + +Let us assume that the prevailing note in a room, in either the +side-wall or floor, is sage. + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM IA] + +We can tell by drawing lines from the center of Diagram I to the +extremities of the space marked sage that there is a little blue and a +little yellow, some green and slate and citrine used in the composition +of sage, and hence the use of these colors constitutes the harmony of +relationship or analogy. + + +#COLOR PROPORTIONS# + +28. But to arrive at proportions we must reduce the circular table to a +geometrical table. We must straighten out the lines so that the exact +proportions are apparent. We need not confuse the reader by mathematics, +but to establish our theory we produce the Diagram IA, and it will be +here seen that the relative proportions existing in the segments of the +circles have been observed in the triangles. + +Thus we have thirty-two right-angled triangles. + +Sage occupies fourteen-thirty-seconds of the entire composition; slate +occupies five-thirty-seconds; citrine, five-thirty-seconds; green, +six-thirty-seconds; blue, one-thirty-second; yellow, one-thirty-second; +and these colors, to observe the proper harmony of analogy in a room, +should be used in the proportions above indicated. + +Sage should be in the preponderance; citrine and slate should occupy +nearly one-sixth of the entire composition, green about one-fifth, and +the whole should be picked out with touches of sharp blue and sharp +yellow, representing each one-thirty-second. + +Let us take, for instance, a room that is in white woodwork, and apply +the sage to the walls and the slate to the floor, and lighten the sage +with citrine and lighten the slate with violet, and intersperse orange +and green in a way permitted by the proportions at our command. When the +work is completed we find a harmony of analogy which can be then +relieved by touches of the primitive colors, blue and yellow, in the +proportions shown. + +29. Good examples of contrast color effects may be found in the +following series of combinations: + +PROPORTIONS OF COLOR ANALYSIS FROM +ASSYRIAN TILES. + + Example No. 1. + + Blue-Green 60 + Greenish-Yellow 8 + Orange 6 + Purple-Brown 6 + White 20 + --- + 100 + + No. 2. + + Blue 35 + Yellow 30 + White 15 + Dull Red 10 + Black 10 + --- + 100 + + No. 3. + + Blue 60 + Deep Yellow 20 + Light Yellow 10 + White 10 + --- + 100 + + No. 4. + + Pale Yellow 34 + Green 27 + Blue 25 + Red 6 + Gold 4 + Black 2 + White 2 + --- + 100 + + No. 5. + + Black 63 + Yellow 17 + Green 9 + Red 4 + Light Red 3 + Blue 3 + White 1 + --- + 100 + + No. 6. + + Green 36 + Blue-Green 24 + Yellow 14 + Red 11 + White 10 + Dull Red 3 + Black 2 + --- + 100 + + No. 7. + + Green 36 + Blue-Green 24 + Yellow 14 + Red 11 + White 10 + Dull Red 3 + Black 2 + --- + 100 + + +#BLACK--WHITE--GRAY# + +30. We do not wish to be understood as stating that the work of the +colorist is solely mechanical; but we would emphasize that the +influences of color are very largely the result of studied proportions. +The basis upon which one operates must be soundly constructed upon the +theory of scale, and scale is mechanically determined. If red is +lightened by the addition of white, or darkened by the addition of +black, it is removed to another scale, and can only harmonize by +contrast with its complement by adding to green the same amount of white +or black that has changed the character of the red, and this should be +mathematically accurate. + +31. To place white by the side of a color heightens or intensifies the +tone of that color. To put black beside a color has the opposite effect. +It weakens the color. Every woman looks better in white, hence white is +the universal wedding gown, the universal party dress for children, and, +wherever practical, the universal Summer dress for adults as well. White +is worn universally by men and women next to the face, in collars or in +neckwear, and the reason for it is that the contiguous white intensifies +whatever color they may possess. Black, on the other hand, lessens the +color or lowers its tone. + +32. Gray is a medium between the two. While it renders an adjacent color +less brilliant, it takes to itself at the same time a tint that is a +complement of that adjacent color. In other words, gray by the side of +green appears faintly pinkish. + +33. Black is always desirable as an associate with luminous colors. +Black does not associate as well with two colors, one of which is +luminous and the other sombre, as when associated with two luminous +colors. + + ORANGE YELLOW YELLOW + BLACK BLACK BLACK + RED ORANGE RED + + YELLOW GREEN ORANGE + BLACK BLACK BLACK + VIOLET YELLOW GREEN + + _The green being yellowish and the violet reddish._ + +White is preferable when associated with a luminous and a sombre color. +Thus, + + RED ORANGE RED YELLOW + WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE + BLUE BLUE VIOLET BLUE + + ORANGE GREEN GREEN YELLOW + WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE + VIOLET BLUE VIOLET VIOLET + + _The violet being bluish, the green yellowish._ + + +#ROOM COMBINATIONS# + +34. The harmony of analogy is a subject that is little understood. It +may be color sequence, progression, development or succession. + + [Illustration: Showing Four-Color Combinations. + DIAGRAM IV and DIAGRAM V] + + [Illustration: #SEQUENCE OF HARMONIES# + DIAGRAM VI + As these twenty-one sections are arranged, one has the layout for a + suite of seven rooms; following the top line across in a light scale, + the harmony is complete; following the center line across in a normal, + the harmony is complete; so also with the bottom line in a lower scale. + Follow the colors diagonally and you find they are repeats, or very + close to repeats--red, russet, red, for instance; violet, violet, + violet; blue, slate, blue; green, green, green; yellow, citrine, yellow; + orange, orange, orange. To the colorist the combinations here suggested + are full of inspiration.] + +Thus we may combine red, green and blue by starting with crimson and +maintaining the following sequence: Crimson, red, scarlet, orange, +yellow, greenish yellow, green, bluish green, blue, violet, and with +added red get back to crimson. + +A room or a series of rooms may run to all colors and be still a harmony +of analogy if the sequence or succession is gradual. + +35. No more delightful harmonies can be imagined than those provided by +nature. One may start with the brown of the earth and run into several +shades of green, and from that touch upon yellow, and from yellow to +orange, and from orange to red, and red to violet, and violet to the +blue of the sky. Or one may follow the colorings and the proportion of +colorings in flora and never go astray. (See ¶ 22.) + +36. In the application of color to the home nothing is more pleasing +than the harmony of sequence; the coloring of all rooms must be in +sympathy with contiguous rooms. (Diagram VII.) (See ¶ 34.) + +37. All rooms are subject to the influence of a north or a south light, +or much or little light, and the colorings must be considered +accordingly. The ceiling and the upper parts of a wall require more pale +colors where more light is needed. On the floor, however, where the +greatest light falls, a little black may be added to soften the tone. + +38. Red and green are sharply contrasting colors; violet and yellow and +blue and orange sharply contrast, and while their combinations may be +used in adjoining rooms, it will be seen that in Diagram IV these +contrasting tones are not in contact, but by their arrangement form +analogies of contrast combinations. + +39. Yellow, orange, red, violet, blue and green are related; orange, +russet, violet, slate, green and citrine are related; red, violet, blue, +green, yellow and orange are related. Viewing the ceilings, the +side-walls or the floor, there is the harmony of progression that we +observe in the tinting of a flower. Viewed collectively the harmony is +the same. + +40. To illustrate further our point we would take the ceiling line. We +start with yellow, a primary color; orange possesses yellow; orange +likewise possesses red, the adjoining color; violet possesses red, and +it likewise possesses blue. On the side-wall, russet possesses orange, +and it also possesses violet; it is the tertiary color made of these two +secondaries. Slate is made of green and violet, and is thus also related +to citrine. + +We do not wish it understood that these colors are to be applied flat, +but simply in the predominating expression. (See ¶ 27.) + +41. The value of the diagram is obvious when one considers that in no +particular is there a break in the sequence; but if we wish a harmony of +analogy in a room, or a harmony of related parts, and wish the adjoining +room to be in absolute contrast, we simply adopt the red, violet and +blue for one room, and the green, citrine and orange for another; or the +orange, russet and violet for one room, and the blue, green and yellow +for the other. If, however, the sequence of color is desirable where we +move from one apartment to another, and the eye is pleased by a gradual +changing color, we can adopt any of these combinations in the order as +presented. + +42. A vital point in the use of color, regarded usually with +indifference or totally misunderstood, is the Unity of Composition to be +preserved in the treatment of a series of _floors_ in a house; for on +each floor of a house the conditions of light vary. As we ascend the +stairs we find each floor requires an altered treatment, because of the +added light given from the skylight. (See ¶ 37.) Moreover, in the +arrangement of a floor the relation of one room to another is frequently +so influential that no one room should be treated without due +consideration to the adjacent apartment. (See Diagram VIII.) + +Too frequently the whole question of color is dismissed when the matter +of north or south exposure is discovered, but the north room on the +lower floor of a house is by no means so well lighted as the north room +of the fourth or fifth floor, and the scale of color which would lend +warmth to such a room would be weak in a more exposed apartment. +(See ¶ 30.) + +43. Where the artist has but one room to consider there is little scope +for his application of color knowledge. He must frequently compromise to +meet the conditions. But presuming that he must treat a floor +through, he should adopt a Unity which will apply harmoniously to all +the rooms and hallways. + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM VII] + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM VIII] + + [Illustration: DIAGRAM IX For Key to Numbers see Diagram VII.] + + +#CONTIGUOUS HARMONIES# + +44. For the lower floor he must arrange his colors so that while they +moderate the direct glare of a sunny exposure or brighten the +cheerlessness of a north light, they will also form a composition that +pleases when seen from a point of common observation. + +45. On the upper floors the scale of color should be gradually softened, +for the yellow or ivory tints that are pleasing on the first floor would +be harsh and glaring where there is greater light. Exterior conditions +must be borne always in mind. + +46. Recalling that the primary colors are yellow, red and blue, and that +the secondary colors are orange, violet and green, and that the tertiary +colors are russet, slate and citrine, all with many tints and shades, +let us arrange a series of five rooms seriatim, so treating ceiling, +side-wall and floor (See Diagram IX) that in passing from one room to +another they will be in sequence of color harmony--each complete from +floor to ceiling and all in harmony along the ceiling lines, the wall +lines and the floor lines. + +Let us take the suite of rooms suggested in Diagram IX. We must consider +desirable colorings in all of the rooms to be treated, and so far as +possible adjust the sequence of treatments, as shown in Diagram VIII, so +that the approach to each room will be in harmonious order as viewed +from any room. We have five rooms to treat. The library happens to be +on the north side, hence we wish to treat it in colorings that supply +the deficiency of sunshine. The hallway is rather dark. The living-room +has only one window, and requires more warmth of color than the +billiard-room and dining-room, which being sunshiny can be treated in +more sombre tones. Therefore we select combination 6 for the hallway. +The one room on the right we treat in No. 1. The rooms on the left we +treat in Nos. 5, 4 and 3. We have, therefore, as we stand in room No. 6, +treated in green, citrine and orange, a view to the right of yellow, +orange and red, which is in harmonious juxtaposition. To the left we +have a glimpse of rooms, the floors of which adjoining the orange floor +of the entrance hall, are yellow, green and blue. The wall spaces +adjoining the citrine wall space of the hall treatment are green, slate +and violet. The frieze lines adjoining the green of the hall treatment +are blue, violet and red--all juxtaposed harmonies. The floors of all +rooms are of one deep scale; the walls lighter scale; the friezes and +ceiling still lighter. If viewed from room 4 the harmonies are equally +effective. + +47. Diagram VII is useful for many reasons. In its present shape it +shows the harmonies of analogy or related parts. To arrange harmonies of +contrast, combine the colors of the first room with the fourth room, the +colors of the second room with the fifth room, the colors of the third +room with the sixth room. (See ¶ 37.) + + +#HARMONIES FOR THE ROOM# + +48. The floor should usually enter into the color scheme as the low +note in the scale. It is the background for the furniture, and should be +deeper than the dado or wainscoting. The wood trims--baseboard, doors, +plate-rails, and everything of that character, except the picture +molding--should be like the woodwork of the furniture. This brings the +woodwork into contrast with the wainscoting (unless the wainscoting be +wood) and into harmony with the side-walls, although the degree of +harmony is far removed. Thus, if the woodwork of the furniture is +mahogany, the wainscoting green, the side-walls pink and gray, we would +find the window trims of mahogany, or imitation mahogany, in harmony +with the side-walls. (See ¶ 51 and ¶ 52.) + +49. I would lay down the rule that the wood trims of a room should +harmonize by analogy with the side-walls where such walls are provided +with a contrasting wainscoting; but if there is no wainscoting, or the +wainscoting be also of wood, then the wood trims and furniture contrast +with the side-wall. + +Substitute green side-wall for the pink, ¶ 48. + +White woodwork is always permissible. Study Diagram VI on page 22. + +50. The picture molding may harmonize with the ceiling. Indeed, a white +picture molding frequently is better than one matching the general +woodwork (See ¶ 37); a dark upper molding, moreover, reduces the +apparent size of a room. + +51. Where black furniture is used, or gold furniture, it will of course +be understood that the wood trims shall not be black or gold; but so +long as they are in harmony, that will be sufficient. White wood trims +are nearly always permissible as a substitute for colored wood. + +52. Tones of gray with soft colorings (See ¶ 32), are always safe. + +To summarize (Note ¶ 37): + +53. In harmonies of contrast the side-walls, the furniture woodwork, +wood trimming, cove, ceiling and the curtains should be related. + +54. The rugs, frieze, wainscoting or dado, furniture upholsterings and +the curtain borders should be related. (See ¶ 49.) + +55. If the curtains have no borders, then the curtains contrast with the +wood trims. + +56. Remember always cove and ceiling should be the palest tint of the +side-wall color, and the rug should be of the deepest contrast to the +side-wall, in harmony with the wainscoting, if there is a wainscoting. +Remember, also, that the colors here prescribed are never to be of the +same scale. The rug or carpet is of the deepest, and the ceiling of the +palest. While certain colors are to contrast, they are not to contrast +in the same scale. (See ¶ 37 and ¶ 40.) + +57. If we find that the tone of color of the wainscoting, for instance, +is a bluish green, the side-wall should be of a reddish orange; for the +reason that if green contrasts with red, and if blue contrasts with +orange, a bluish green would contrast with a reddish orange. + +58. Exception to ¶ 56. Only large or well-proportioned rooms can stand +the diminishing or reduction effects of contrast. In low ceiling rooms, +leave out the contrasting frieze, and let border, cornice and ceiling be +in receding colors. (See ¶ 89.) + +59. We all know that a northern exposure gives a room a deficiency of +sunlight, and the wall treatment should supply this. A southern room, on +the other hand, gives so much sunlight that counteracting wall +treatments in cold color are permissible. + +60. In the color treatment of a room one has either to adopt a harmony +of analogy or a harmony of contrast, and this is a matter which depends +upon so many conditions that it should be carefully considered. +(See ¶ 88 and ¶ 89.) Where a plate-rail is used one must remember that a +great deal of color may be furnished by the bric-a-brac, and that the wall +behind this plate-rail should be of a color in contrast to the contents +of the plate-rail. + +61. When we follow a scheme of _contrast_ the borders should be usually +complements, and if the reader has studied our diagram he will very +readily understand how to determine the exact complementary color. + + +#WALL PROPORTIONS# + +62. The wainscoting or dado should be the same as the top border or +frieze, but of a darker tone. The intermixture of white or black is +always permissible; thus a paper as a side-wall might have as its +frieze the complementary coloring with more white, while the wainscoting +or dado should be the complementary with black added. + +63. The cornice should be lighter than the border, and its members may +show several tints, with the ceiling lighter still. (See ¶ 92.) + +64. As a rule the color of the chair coverings should be the +complementary of the side-walls, and the color of the furniture frames +should be complementary to the wainscoting; so by following this rule we +find that the wainscoting serves as a contrasting background to the +chair frame. + +65. Let us imagine a room wherein the side-walls are of a reddish tint; +the wainscoting, being a complementary color, is of a greenish cast. The +furniture is of mahogany, and in contrast to the wainscoting, while the +chair covering, being greenish in contrast to the chair frame, is also +in contrast to the side-wall. Here we have, then, the color relations of +side-wall, wainscoting, furniture-frames and covering; but it is +undesirable that these tones should be in the same scale. (See ¶ 62 and +¶ 92, also tables pages 42 and 43.) + + { { { _Furniture_: Large pieces, preserving broken + { { { heights. + { { { _Designs_: On walls, draperies and furniture + { { { coverings follow rules of proportion. + { { HIGH { _Color_: Subdued contrasts of somber tones + { { CEILING { picked out in contrasts of gold, red + { { { and orange. Masses of luminous color are + { { { permissible in well-lighted rooms. Borders, + { { { friezes, dadoes and wainscotings may be + { { { used, and a bordered carpet or large rug + { WELL { { in the low tone of the color scheme. + { LIGHTED { + { { { _Furniture_: Avoid high pieces, excepting as + { { { relief to the use of many low pieces. + { { { _Designs_: On walls, draperies and furniture + { { { coverings follow rule of proportion, + { { LOW { using perpendicular stripes to give height + { { CEILING { effect on wall; avoid friezes, wainscoting, + { { { dadoes. Carpet borders may be safely used. + { { { _Color_: Subdued contrast of somber tones + { { { picked out in bright effects; luminous + { { { masses permissible. + LARGE{ + ROOM { { { _Furniture_: Large pieces, preserving broken + { { { heights. + { { { _Designs_: On walls, draperies and furniture + { { { coverings follow rules of proportion. + { { HIGH { _Color_: Softly luminous, soft orange, yellow, + { { CEILING { green, sunshiny colors to give artificial + { { { light, picked out with contrasting color. + { { { Border, frieze and wainscoting may be used, + { { { also carpet or large rugs in the low tone + { POORLY { { of the color scheme. + { LIGHTED { + { { { _Furniture_: Low pieces relieved by some high + { { { pieces. + { { { _Designs_: On walls, draperies and furniture + { { { coverings follow rule of proportion, + { { LOW { using perpendicular stripes to give wall + { { CEILING { height; avoid friezes, wainscoting or + { { { dado; carpet borders may be safely used + { { { in the low tone of the color scheme. + { { { _Color_: Softly luminous, soft orange, yellow, + { { { green, sunshiny colors to give artificial + { { { light, picked out with contrasting color. + + { { { _Furniture_: Small pieces, relieved by small + { { { high pieces. + { { { _Designs_: Small, proportionate to the size + { { { of the room. + { { HIGH { _Color_: Use harmonies of analogy or related + { { CEILING { parts and of a receding character, blue + { { { or gray green, gray predominating; avoid + { { { orange or red, excepting in the + { WELL { { bric-a-brac. Small rugs. Horizontal + { LIGHTED { { effects on walls. + { { { + { { { _Furniture_: Low pieces relieved by small high + { { { pieces. + { { { _Designs_: Small on draperies and furniture + { { LOW { coverings; use perpendicular stripes to + { { CEILING { give height effect on wall; avoid deep + { { { friezes, wainscoting, dado or borders. + { { { _Color_: Use harmonies of analogy or related + { { { parts, of greens or blues, grays + { { { predominating; avoid luminous colors--yellow, + { { { orange or red, excepting in the + { { { bric-a-brac. Small rugs. + SMALL{ + ROOM { { { _Furniture_: Small pieces, relieved by small + { { { high pieces. + { { { _Designs_: Small on wall and fabrics. + { { { Horizontal effects. + { { HIGH { _Color_: White in the woodwork gives artificial + { { CEILING { light; use pale gray colors on wall, + { { { slightly tinted green or yellow, faintly + { { { relieved by red or orange--the stronger + { { { colors only for the bric-a-brac. For the + { { { floor avoid bordered carpets; use small + { { { rugs. + { POORLY { + { LIGHTED { { _Furniture_: Low pieces. + { { { _Designs_: Follow the rule of proportions, + { { { with perpendicular stripes on wall, to + { { { give height effect. Avoid borders on + { { LOW { wall; use small rugs on floor. + { { CEILING { _Color_: A preponderance of white in woodwork + { { { and fresh gray on wall with a touch of + { { { yellow and green in soft tones. + { { { Contrasting colors only in bric-a-brac + { { { and small details. + + +#ROOM PROPORTIONS# + +66. In small rooms harmonies of contrast are unsafe, because contrasts +must involve advancing colors, which make a room look smaller. (See ¶ 86 +and ¶ 90.) Harmonies of analogy are far better; and as frieze, +wainscoting and dado are not recommended in the small room, we suggest +that the furniture woodwork and the wood trims should be of one color +note, unless it is desired that the wood trims should be white; and that +the side-walls, curtains and chair upholsterings should be of a note in +some degree related and of receding color, picked out with just a touch +of contrasting color. (See ¶ 90 and ¶ 91.) + +This contrasting color may be introduced in the accessories, the +pictures, bric-a-brac, flowers (natural or artificial) or books. + + [Illustration: "... pronounced patterns must balance," etc. + (See page 38.)] + + + [Illustration: Broken heights. (See ¶ 75.)] + +#DECORATIVE PROPORTIONS# + +(SEE CHART) + +On the preceding pages we present a quick-reference chart of rules that +should be followed in furnishing rooms under various conditions of Light +and Proportion. + + 67. A large room with high ceiling and well lighted. + 68. A large room with low ceiling and well lighted. + 69. A large room with high ceiling and poorly lighted. + 70. A large room with low ceiling and poorly lighted. + 71. A small room with high ceiling and well lighted. + 72. A small room with low ceiling and well lighted. + 73. A small room with high ceiling and poorly lighted. + 74. A small room with low ceiling and poorly lighted. + +There are two considerations to bear uppermost in mind: Proportions +affected by Color and Proportions affected by Design. + +75. It is easily understood that a large room may be safely furnished +with large pieces of furniture, but where there is a wide expanse of +floor space care must be exercised to secure broken heights: In a +high-ceilinged room the furniture must not be all high; in a +low-ceilinged room the furniture must not be all low. + +Avoid straight line effects in the furniture heights and in the +wall-paper, which, if in pronounced patterns, must balance in +conspicuous wall members and show the broken junctures or bad matchings +in inconspicuous or obscure corners. + + +#COLORS THAT GIVE SIZE TO A ROOM# + +76. The wall and fabric designs must be of a size proportionate to the +size of the room. The color treatment of a well-lighted room must be +subdued to offset the glare of the natural illumination, and the natural +illumination be subdued to soften the color treatment; glare must be +avoided. + +77. Advancing colors are colors which contain red or yellow in the +ascendancy; _receding_ colors are those which contain blue in the +ascendancy. Green in its purity, being half yellow and half blue, is +almost neutral. In the same way violet, being made up of half red and +half blue, is theoretically neutral, although the blue tone is usually +more assertive than the red and makes the color recede. Any color or hue +possesses advancing or receding qualities according to the ascendancy of +red, blue or yellow in its composition. + +78. Orange is an advancing color; so also is violet in the shades +approaching red; green in the shades approaching yellow. + +79. Of the tertiary colors russet is an advancing color, because while +it contains some blue in the violet of its composition, it contains a +preponderance of red and orange. + + +#ADVANCING AND RECEDING COLORS# + +80. Citrine is an advancing color, because while it contains some blue +in the green of its composition, it contains a preponderance of yellow +and orange; slate is a receding color, because while it contains some +yellow in the green of its composition, it contains a preponderance of +blue; in the same way plum may be regarded as an advancing color, +because of its preponderance of red; buff is an advancing color, because +of its preponderance of yellow; sage is a receding color, because of its +preponderance of blue. + +81. The carpet should always be in the low tone, and in a small room a +bordered carpet should be always tabooed. So also should one avoid the +use of one rug so placed that a border of woodwork shows around it, +because this gives the border effect and makes a small floor space look +still smaller. Better use small rugs. The use of a lot of narrow rugs +lengthwise along a narrow room will make the room look all the narrower, +but the same rugs placed crosswise would make a room look wider. + +The diagrams which we have prepared will give even the man who +understands it all a quicker grasp of the points involved. + +82. Width effect and distance effect are obtained best by arranging the +smaller pieces at the farthest points. + +83. It is the same with pictures. While a room should be balanced, and +the pictures placed in a manner to give this result, it is best, where +possible, to keep the larger pictures, larger effects, always near the +eye. The crowding of large pieces at the farthest point diminishes the +apparent size of the room. + + +#FLOOR TREATMENTS# + + [Illustration] + +84. Continuous design in ceiling or carpet weakens the size effect; +hence rugs which break the continuity by being laid across the room +instead of lengthwise are preferable. (See Diagrams and ¶ 81.) + +85. It is a safe rule to do a small or narrow room in harmonies of +analogy or related colors, colors of a light tone and of receding +character. Apart from any effect which color may possess decoratively or +pictorially, its value cannot be overestimated in its application to the +laws of proportion. + + [Illustration] + +86. Borders may be safely used on the wall or on the carpet of any large +room with high ceiling, but wall friezes should be avoided where the +ceilings are low, for they foreshorten the height effect. + +87. We would avoid borders on the floor of a small room to make it look +larger, and we would use wide borders in a large room with a low ceiling +so that the floor may be foreshortened. + +88. One may utilize in a large, poorly lighted room masses of luminous +colors to give artificial sunlight to the room deficient therein, but in +the small, poorly lighted room this treatment should be avoided. + + +#COLOR SCHEMES FOR ROOMS UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS# + + (TN: left page of two page table) + KEYNOTE + #B# #B# COLORS #B# + #A# #Drapery# #A# #A# #Furniture# + #Floor# #Border# #Wood Trim# #Wainscoting# #Side-Wall# #Coverings# + + (Brown + and gray + tones) (Full tones)(Wood tones)(Deep tones)(Soft tones)(Soft tones) + + Brown Yellow Mission Green Red Green + Deep oak + brown Orange Mission Blue Orange Blue + Light oak Green Light oak Violet Yellow Violet + Deep olive Blue Oak Red Green Red + Mission + tones of Violet Mahogany Orange Blue Orange + slate + Deep plum Red Violet toned Yellow Violet Yellow + or tulip + + (TN: right page of two page table) + + #A# #B# #A# #B# #A# + #Furniture# #Frieze# #Draperies# #Ceiling# #Cornice# + + (Wood tones)(Soft tones)(Full tones)(Pale wash tones)(Pale wash tones) + + Mahogany Pale green Red Palest green Pale yellow + Deep oak Blue Orange Palest blue Pale green + Gold, gray or Violet Yellow Palest violet Pale blue + yellow + Walnut gray Grayish red Green Palest red Pale violet + Mission brown Gray orange Blue Palest orange Pale orange + Gold or violet Yellow Violet Palest yellow Pale pink + tone + +Exception 1. The ceiling, where there is no pronounced cornice or cove, +should follow the wall tint. + +Exception 2. Independent of rule, a low ceiling should be in receding +color. + + * * * * * + +It is impossible to tabulate directions for using color without an +understanding of the conditions, the size, light and height of a room. +(See pages 34 and 35.) The above tables relate only to normal +conditions. + +White woodwork can be used effectively in the trims of a room and give +greater light and size. The darker the wood trims the smaller the room +appears. We have left out of consideration the window treatments which, +as a rule, should be of white lace, perhaps overdraped in colored +stuffs. If the room is poorly lighted, it is obviously undesirable to +cut off any light from the window by even laces; the curtains, +therefore, in a poorly lighted room should be draped back. Colored +laces, grenadines or madras stuffs are frequently used to give period +style or color tone, and wherever they are used, such curtains should +harmonize with the wall. So also with the overdraperies to the lace +curtains. + +89. Luminous or advancing colors make a small room look all the smaller; +therefore in small rooms we suggest the use of white woodwork, and in +the color treatment we would avoid contrasts, but would suggest +harmonies of analogy in receding colors, soft grays, greens and blues. +These are not luminous colors and will make a small room look the +larger, while the white will give light effects, and if the room appears +a trifle somber it can be easily relieved by the bright colors of the +bric-a-brac and by a touch of gold here and there on the wall. (See ¶ 66 +and ¶ 85.) + +90. There are cases where a small room has a northern exposure, and +while apparently expedient to treat such a room in warm colors to supply +the deficiency of sunlight, such a course would make a room look +smaller. + +91. Under the circumstances treat the room in light hues, gray +preferred, and get the deficiency of sunlight through some warm isolated +details and in the lace curtains. + + +#THE WALL THE KEYNOTE COLOR# + +92. Our theory of color as applied to room furnishings provides always +that the side-wall is the keynote and this keynote is usually fixed for +practical reasons in sympathy with the furniture; above to the ceiling's +center the note ascends and below to the floor center it descends; it +goes into tints as it ascends and into deeper shades of gray and brown +as it descends. + +If, for instance, blue is the keynote, by adding black you have drabs, +slates or grays for the floor, while if the keynote be red you have +ecrus and browns for the floor light or gray, according to the color +scale of the keynote. + +93. It must be understood that in designating a color we do not mean +that it shall be solid or pure, but merely that it prevails. (See ¶ 29.) + +A side-wall may be treated in several colors, but as long as orange +prevails, it follows the conditions of the combination, pages 42 and +43. The factors included in the line designated A are all of one color +family. The factors indicated by B are also family colors. It will be +seen that the A or B colors taken by themselves form HARMONIES OF +ANALOGY; it is only by combining the A's with the B's that we have +HARMONIES OF CONTRAST. + +If a room is to be done in harmonies of analogy, use the A colors alone +or the B colors alone, but never A and B together. + + +#THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLOR# + +94. Whatever may be the charm conveyed by design there is a reason for +it. We can analyze it. + +It has an inherent quality of beauty or historic interest, and there is +a definite and distinct reason for our liking it. + +But the effect of color is exciting or disturbing, tranquilizing or +pleasing, inexplicable and inexpressible, affecting the senses like an +appeal to the passions or the appetite. One might as well explain the +love of sport, literature, art or vice. The sense of color is a nerve +sense, and this sense varies in the individual. We know that colors +which are strongest in direct sun rays, like red and orange, arouse the +normal senses, while the blues and violets quiet. + +Nature provides vast fields of green because favorable in its effects +upon humanity. Experiments prove that men of extreme sensibility exposed +to the influences of red light finally show excitement which gives +muscular development fifty per cent. in excess of the power possessed by +the same subject when exposed for the same period under the influences +of blue light. + + +#TO DETERMINE THE COLOR SENSE# + +Color, like music, while subjected to positive rules of harmony, appeals +to natures according to the responsiveness of their nerve sense, and the +practical decorator in dealing with a customer should discover at the +outstart the character of that nerve sense. Some natures respond to the +normal colors, barbaric colors. Some respond to the softer tints and are +disturbed by the sharper tones. A dulled sense requires sharp contrasts; +a quickened sense is satisfied with the soft gray tones. Apart from any +question of propriety or environment the individual taste for color must +be determined before the individual taste can be pleased. + +A demonstration of four examples in color may serve the purpose of +determining one's color sense. + +First. Combinations of normal primary and secondary colors, (_a_) +arranged in contrasts, (_b_) in analogies. + +Second. Combinations of tones of the above colors, (_a_) arranged in +contrasts, (_b_) in analogies. + +Third. Combinations of tints of the above colors, (_a_) arranged in +contrasts, (_b_) in analogies. + +Fourth. Combinations of the gray (tertiary) tones of the above colors, +(_a_) arranged in contrasts, (_b_) in analogies. + +95. Do not allow your personal color-sympathies to dominate your work. +All colors have their usefulness, for there are occasions when it is +proper they should be used, apart from any question of harmony; one +must consider always the uses of colors, the lights, and the purpose of +the room under treatment. + +96. Nature gives to the dark forest depths great brilliancy of +floriculture, and dark-skinned people indulge unconsciously the same +bright scale of color. But as we come out of the forest and advance in +civilization we use barbaric colorings more discriminately. + +97. We employ gold, orange or yellow for the north room not for inherent +beauty, but for the sense of warmth which they convey to an atmosphere +chilled by the absence of sunlight. We employ receding colors in a small +room that the room may look larger. We employ cold colors in a sunny +room, especially in the summer home, for reasons psychological rather +than aesthetic. + + +#PERIOD USES OF COLOR# + +98. If our furniture is white and gold, it is clearly evident that the +colorings of a room should be soft and harmonious. If we adopt the dark +teakwood of India or the deep brown of Flanders, our color scheme again +changes. The preponderance of white in Colonial rooms was due to +architectural conditions. White illuminates; and in the days when our +ceilings were no higher than seven and a half feet, and our windows were +small, the room needed an artificial light, and white supplied this. + +99. In furnishing an Empire room, the decorators have, little by little, +led themselves to believe that what is known as Empire green is a +distinct shade of green. On the contrary, green was used in the period +of the Empire simply because it was in pleasing contrast with the +mahogany and brass so much used. If the mahogany is dark, a dark green +is desirable; if light, a light green. + +100. Egyptian decoration was full of gold and brilliant coloring, and a +popular form of combination was the triad form: + + Black, yellow and red. + Red, blue and white. + Dark blue, light blue and white. + Cream color, blue and black. + Dark red, medium yellow and blue. + +101. The Greek decorators, who painted in fresco, used white, red, blue, +yellow and black. Natural marbles were much used in green and red and +alabaster, and bronze, gold and silver. + +We see the flat colors of the Greek, Etruscan and Pompeiian age and we +imagine they are typical of the period, but we must consider that the +examples of that period which we now possess are faded and emasculated, +and that the more authentic the example, the more aged it is, and hence +the more weakened in color character. + +The Greeks loved color, and their embroideries were in gold and blue and +Tyrian purple. + +Roman coloring was but a continuance of the Greek, characterized by dark +and rich backgrounds, which were frequently black, red or deep yellow +and dark blue, on which figures and landscapes, or animals, or groups +from still life, were executed in bright colorings of powerful +contrasts. Black and white were used, and later, when the Byzantine +artists and craftsmen found their way to Western Italy, they spread this +love of bold coloring, so that at the dawn of the Renaissance we find a +return to the Greek and Roman coloring, which, however, was modified in +England, Germany and Flanders, according to temperamental conditions. + +102. We find, for instance, some forms of Florentine decoration, full of +yellow, red-yellow, blue-greens and light slate blues. Botticelli used +whites, creams, reds and citrine, with umber tones heightened by gold, +and if we examine carefully the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century +Italian brocades which are preserved in the museums, we discover a great +preponderance of yellow-green as an ornament on dark violet, or light +olive green on dark blue, or dull orange on crimson brown. + +In some of the richest early Italian fabrics we find: + + Purple and sage-green ornaments on indigo ground; outlines in gold. + + Dull crimson, pale blue and chrome yellow ornaments on dark gray + ground. + + Pale yellow-green ornaments on deep amber ground. + + Dark blue-green and light greenish-yellow ornaments on deep crimson + ground. + + Pale greenish-blue ornaments on dark gray-blue ground, with white + and gold picked out in small quantities. + + Emerald green and dull orange ornaments on dark gray-green ground + outlined in gold. + +103. The French Renaissance takes inspiration from the Roman and Greek. + +The Louis XIV is a development of the Renaissance, with a conspicuous +use of gold. + +The Louis XV is an elaboration along the same lines. + +The Louis XVI is a simplification and a return to the classic. + +The Georgian is largely Roman and Pompeiian. + +104. The Adam style was taken directly from the Pompeiian, but in most +cases, instead of having the Pompeiian solid color background with +design lightly executed, the background is in the light color, and the +design dark. To follow strictly the Pompeiian palace style would be too +garish in our modern circumscribed environment. + +105. It is a nice psychological problem to decorate the house in a way +to give true balance to the aesthetic sense. No matter how great one's +admiration for a thing, there is always a final point of satiety at +which the desire needs rest or balance. A woman may love flowers, for +example, but in the season of flowers, when all nature supplies an +over-abundance, the visual sense becomes satiated, and the house +interior that is furnished in cool tints and two-tones gives positive +relief. + +106. On the other hand, floral decorations in the home are the balance +needed to the mind that craves them during the Winter period when there +is a lack of color without. + + + [Illustration: Compare perpendicular and horizontal lines: The angles + and curves which enclose them change their relative equality.] + + * * * * * + +#ILLUSION EFFECT AND EXPRESSION IN THE USE OF LINES# + +107. We very often notice a room which has been carefully carried out +but is utterly lacking in charm. The color seems right, and, considered +in detail, the furniture and the furnishings are appropriate, but the +room lacks effectiveness. + +It is uninteresting. + +It is like a doll face that is, perhaps, perfect in detail, but utterly +devoid of EXPRESSION. + +The artist who paints a portrait is a failure without the ability to +give expression: hence in architecture the acute-angled spires or +arched roofs have the same expression that the "long face" carries. + + [Illustration] + +If we smile, the mouth curves upward; if we grieve, the lines turn +downward. + +108. In festival decorations, joy is expressed by loops, curves and +festoons. + +109. In serious decorations (libraries, studies, church or office work) +straight lines are used; curtains are gathered in plaits so that the +sags and drapes are all out of them; they are drawn. It is the same when +we say of a person: "He looks serious, his face is drawn; it is full of +lines." + +110. The observation, "a broad smile on his face," means literally just +that; the lines extend outward and upward, giving an expression of +breadth and joy to the countenance. + + +#ILLUSION# + +111. A doorway looks wider that has at the top a drapery which crosses +in one complete curved sweep. A side-wall is larger apparently if along +the frieze line long, wide loops or festoons are arranged. The same wall +is more contracted and higher if treated in arrow-point forms of design. + + [Illustration] + +The decorator should study these matters of illusion, for they are +vital to the success of his labor. (See ¶ 116.) + +112. Perpendicular lines contract the wall space and extend the apparent +height of a room; horizontal lines shorten the apparent height of the +ceiling and lengthen the width of the room. (See exceptions, ¶ 119.) + +These straight lines may be used where extremes are needed. (See pages +61 and 63.) + +A short doorway, for instance, looks higher where the portiere is hung +in straight folds; so also with a cottage window. + + [Illustration] + +113. Every decorator who handles fabrics, every cabinetmaker who lays +out the woodwork of a room, every stained glass window maker, should +appreciate one fact: A line which is finished at the top or bottom, or +both, with acute angles appears longer than the line that is finished +top and bottom with an obtuse or right angle. It is the same with the +finish of a wall frieze. + +If the wall frieze ends abruptly (Illustration A on page 57), it is +foreshortened; if it is finished by angles (Illustration B), the height +of the room is apparently greater. (See the illustration on page 51.) + +114. It is the same way with curves; given two lines of equal length and +enclose one with convex and the other with concave curves, and the line +enclosed convex will appear longer. + + [Illustration: Treated for Broken Heights.] + +115. In dress a collar brought down to an acute angle in the front of +the waist gives height effect, whereas a perfectly straight collar +around the neck reduces the apparent height and gives width effect. + + [Illustration] + +116. The use of arches should be studied. A space that is arched looks +wider than it actually is, for the eye unconsciously follows the lines +of the arch, and a distance or width effect is the result. The same +space treated with a straight line is quickly bridged. The same space +treated with lines that come to an angle looks narrower, for the reason +that the eye becomes focused by the apex of the angle, and a height +effect, not a breadth effect, is the result. (See page 57.) + +117. This illusion is best shown in the illustrations of the parallel +lines that are crossed diagonally, with the result that the lines no +longer look parallel because of the angles. Nevertheless, they are +parallel, and the lines running diagonally at the bottom of this page +are also parallel. + + [Illustration] + +We present two practical illustrations of illusion in the use of lines. +(See ¶ 112.) They represent the side-walls of two rooms of the same +dimensions, but showing apparently different proportions, the +perpendicular lines making the side-wall look higher and the horizontal +lines making the side-wall look lower. (See page 59.) + + [Illustration: Illustration A.] + + [Illustration: Illustration B. (See ¶ 113.)] + + [Illustration] + +The length of the wall space is shortened, moreover, by the +perpendicular lines and lengthened by the horizontal lines. + +118. No period expresses more clearly the joy of curves as opposed to +the severity of straight lines than that voluptuous period of Louis XV +known as Rococo. It was a profligate era, an era of pleasure, and the +appended illustration of part of a frieze is in no way exaggerated, but +a true example of a common expression. (See page 60.) + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + +119. Distinct perpendicular lines give height effect, but they also +narrow the apparent width of a wall space. It is best to have such line +effects indistinct unless they appear as in the illustration on page 63, +where they are intended to reduce the breadth effect of the pattern and +neutralize a squat tendency. + +Indistinct perpendiculars give height effect, and do not reduce the wall +width. + + [Illustration: (See ¶ 111.)] + + [Illustration: Perpendicular lines, giving height effect.] + + [Illustration: Perpendicular lines, giving height effect.] + + +#COLOR TERMS# + +120. In the study of color and its application authorities differ so +materially that it is not only impossible to reconcile their theories, +but the different terms used to express color thought create +inextricable confusion. + +121. One authority fixes the neutrals as being black, gray and white; +another regards them as those hues or tones which lack definite color, +like quaternaries. Authorities differ, moreover, upon even the +fundamental principles. Chevreuil selects red, yellow and blue as the +primaries; Dr. Thomas Young selects red, green and violet. Helmholtz +selects carmine, pale green and blue-violet; Maxwell scarlet red, +emerald green and blue-violet; Professor Rood agrees with Maxwell; +Professor Church, of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, regards the +primaries as red, green and blue; George Hurst, the English authority, +fixes upon red, yellow and blue, the Brewsterian theory. + +122. One must remember always in studying color that we are treating +with the material, not with the illusion. We are dealing with pigments, +not with prismatic phenomena, and it must be obvious that the only three +primary colors that can be used in a way to produce all other colors are +red, yellow and blue. + +123. Whatever may be the spectrum theories of Sir Isaac Newton, Young or +Helmholtz, for practical reasons we prefer to follow an authority as +eminent as Chevreuil, for years the head of the National Gobelin Works +of France, and a man experienced in the practice as well as the theory +of color. Any effort to fix the character of color and describe it by +periods and epochs will always prove unsatisfactory, for the reason that +terms and expressions have changed with every period since the Egyptian, +4000 B.C. + +124. We think we know purple until we discover that the purple of +royalty, the ermine and purple, the purple of the cardinals' robes, +frequently approximated what we now call carmine. Royal purple and +Venetian blue are mere trade terms. Practical men in the purchase of +things decorative soon discover that color terms convey only individual +impressions and no distinctive qualities that may be relied upon; so +that any effort to fix the color value by periods would be futile. We +may assume that in the age of oak, mahogany, white and gold or walnut +furniture, the fabric and wall colors harmonized with the wood colors, +and to that degree we may fix the period character of color. The moment +that the tone of the woodwork or the light conditions varied, color +character varied also. + +125. We must also bear well in mind that colors which have come down to +us as examples of ancient times have been subjected to the changing +influences of centuries, and have faded and altered. The colors on the +walls of the historic rooms of European palaces have greatly altered. +The flat reds and the deadish blues of the Pompeiian frescoes have been +altered by chemical action during the 1,850 years' burial under the lava +of Vesuvius. We are not justified in judging of the colors of A.D. 79 +by the restoration-examples in 1900. Hence the mere expressions +Pompeiian red, Pompeiian blue, can convey no definite, positive meaning. + + + [Illustration: Fig. 1.] + +#COLOR VOCABULARY# + +126. In music, a tone which is formed by a certain number of vibrations +per second is the same the world over, and each and every tone has a +name; but in color no such standards exist. People have attempted to +formulate a system by denominating the primary colors, red, yellow and +blue, respectively as R, Y and B, and the combinations of these colors +as combinations of letters. For example, red, with varying degrees of +yellow added, is denominated by the letters R R O, or R O R, or O O R. +This system tends to confusion, and is inadequate to express tints and +shades. Various other systems have been devised. Color charts have been +made, and in each system arbitrary names have been assigned, so that +each color may be known by one of several names. The difficulty of +insuring accuracy under these circumstances becomes very evident. + +127. In discussing color combinations, one is usually confused because +the subject is not a tangible expression that can be grasped like the +sound of a note in music. With color charts, every maker has a standard +of his own and the term "red" may mean anything within a wide range; a +yellow-red or a blue-red, the yellow-red perhaps being cherry, the +blue-red perhaps being carmine. An appreciation of the Harmonies of +Contrast or Harmonies of Analogy or Relationship is accompanied by great +confusion because of this lack of standardization. + +128. There is only one true standard of color, and that is the standard +as shown in the prism, and expressed by the spectrum. It is within the +province of any man to determine the proper relationship of color if he +starts with the chart we here present. We fix definitely the three +primary and the three secondary colors, the primaries, red, yellow and +blue, being those indicated by the heavy black lines; the secondaries, +orange, green and violet, being indicated by the broad stipple lines. + +All other lines are the tertiary or quaternary colors. + +If we have clearly in our minds the appearance of the normal red and +yellow, and clearly in our minds the orange that is made up by combining +the two, we ought to be able to fix in our imagination the colors that +come midway between the red and the orange, or the colors that come +nearer the red or nearer the orange. Let us assume we are to select +colors in the harmony of _contrast_. Take a ruler and lay across the +chart and the contrasting colors are always opposite; the direct +contrast of red is green because green is composed of the other two +primary colors, yellow and blue; the contrast of blue is orange because +orange is a combination of the other two primaries, yellow and red; the +contrast of yellow is violet, a combination of blue and red. + +Now, to determine the niceties of distinction, let us take a red that is +a little off shade, a little yellowish; one must determine in the mind's +eye about how much yellow there is in it and, to determine the true +contrast, carry your line across from the point which you think is +represented by the yellowish and you find that it is green with a little +blue added, or bluish-green. + +129. One must also determine the scale of color. The parallel circular +lines on the chart designate four scales, or four grades, of each color, +growing lighter by adding white, to the center; as you add more and more +white the tint becomes more and more light. In determining contrast, be +careful to stick to your scale. Contrasts, to be in harmony, must be +colors of the same scale. + +130. Harmony of analogy or relationship is clearly expressed in the +chart. The family relations of red are the things which go with red. We +may have a harmony of analogy in violet which includes the relations of +red and blue. We must not attempt to carry the family relationship too +far. There is a wide range of variety in these combinations of analogy +because they may include not only all scales of each color from the +darkest tones to the lightest tints but they include tertiaries and +quaternaries. + +Each man must establish his own standard, and by establishing it he +forms unconsciously a very comprehensive understanding of color. It has +never been possible to print a true colored chart because no two copies +of the sheet off the press would be alike. A little more ink or a little +less ink, or a little lighter or a little heavier impression, changes +the values. + +The chart illustrates contrasts of all of the primaries and secondary +colors and the broken colors or hues. In the same way the tertiary or +quaternary colors may be arranged, but for convenience we show the +contrasts as follows: + +RUSSET: + + Tertiary, + 32 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 31 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 17 parts Blue + 30 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 18 parts Blue + 29 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 19 parts Blue + 28 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 20 parts Blue + 27 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 21 parts Blue + 26 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 22 parts Blue + 25 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 23 parts Blue + +SLATE: + + Tertiary, + 32 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 31 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 17 parts Yellow + 30 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 18 parts Yellow + 29 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 19 parts Yellow + 28 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 20 parts Yellow + 27 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 21 parts Yellow + 26 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 22 parts Yellow + 25 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 23 parts Yellow + +CITRINE: + + Tertiary, + 32 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 31 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 17 parts Red + 30 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 18 parts Red + 29 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 19 parts Red + 28 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 20 parts Red + 27 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 21 parts Red + 26 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 22 parts Red + 25 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 23 parts Red + +SAGE: + + Quaternary, + 24 parts Blue, 16 parts Red, 24 parts Yellow + 25 parts Yellow, 23 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 26 parts Yellow, 22 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 27 parts Yellow, 21 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 28 parts Yellow, 20 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 29 parts Yellow, 19 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 30 parts Yellow, 18 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + 31 parts Yellow, 17 parts Blue, 16 parts Red + +BUFF: + + Quaternary, + 24 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue, 24 parts Red + 25 parts Red, 23 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 26 parts Red, 22 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 27 parts Red, 21 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 28 parts Red, 20 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 29 parts Red, 19 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 30 parts Red, 18 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + 31 parts Red, 17 parts Yellow, 16 parts Blue + +PLUM: + + Quaternary, + 24 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow, 24 parts Blue + 25 parts Blue, 23 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 26 parts Blue, 22 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 27 parts Blue, 21 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 28 parts Blue, 20 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 29 parts Blue, 19 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 30 parts Blue, 18 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + 31 parts Blue, 17 parts Red, 16 parts Yellow + + [Illustration] + +131. One who attempts to make color compositions with no more reliable +guide than taste can expect to accomplish no more than he who in music +possesses a good ear but no musical training. + +132. The note of discord in color is best avoided by an infallible +guide, as the discord in music is best avoided by thorough training in +the law of harmony. The color chart on page 73 has been so arranged that +each of the shades is in exact harmony with the shade directly opposite. + +133. For example, to ascertain the color that is in harmony with the +shade denominated Red-Orange, it is necessary simply to lay a ruler +across the diagram to find the corresponding harmony, which is +Blue-Green. + +134. We know that the primary colors are red, yellow and blue, and that +the combination of any two of these gives a secondary color. The +secondary color is the complement of the remaining third color; thus +yellow and blue form green, and green is the complement or contrasting +harmony of red. Red and yellow form orange, and orange is the complement +of blue. Blue and red form violet, and violet is the complement of +yellow. These are facts we all know. Now, if red is the complement or +contrasting harmony of green, and yellow contrasts with violet, then red +with one, two or three degrees of yellow added will contrast with green +with one, two or three degrees of blue added. + +Assume, for example, that a decorator dealing with a red side-wall +wishes upholsterings in the correct shade of green. He knows he has a +red wall, he knows also that he wishes to use some shade of green, but +without some fixed standard it is impossible for him to do more than +approximate the correct shade of green to use. If, however, he could +compare the red of his wall with his color chart and determine exactly +which of the many shades of red, or which of the many yellow reds, or +blue reds, the wall is toned in, it is a simple process to ascertain the +exact green harmonizing with this red. + +The second great use of the color chart is then an infallible guide to +color harmony, whether analagous or contrasting. + +OLD +SYSTEM| R |RRO|RO |ROO| O |OOY| OY|OYY| Y |YYG| YG|YGG| G |GGB| GB| +------|===|===|===|===|======|===|===|===|======|===|===|===|=====|===|===| +NEW | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10| 11| 12| 13 | 14| 15| +SYSTEM|RED|R 7|R 6|R 5|ORANGE|R 3|R 2|R 1|YELLOW|Y 7|Y 6|Y 5|GREEN|Y 3|Y 2| + | |Y 1|Y 2|Y 3| |Y 5|Y 6|Y 7| |B 1|B 2|B 3| |B 5|B 6| + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + H[A]| |56R|48R|40R| 32R |40Y|48Y|56Y| |56Y|48Y|40Y| 32Y |40B|48B| +NORMAL| 64| | | | | | | | 64 | | | | | | | + LINE | | 8Y|16Y|24Y| 32Y |24R|16R| 8R| | 8B|16B|24B| 32B |24Y|16Y| + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + I[B]|56R|49R|42R|35R| 28R |35Y|42Y|49Y| 50Y |49Y|42Y|35Y| 28Y |35B|42B| + | | 7Y|14Y|21Y| 28Y |21R|14R| 7R| | 7B|14B|21B| 28B |21Y|14Y| + | 8W| 8W| 8W| 8W| 8W | 8W| 8W| 8W| 8W | 8W| 8W| 8W| 8W | 8W| 8W| + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + J|48R|42R|36R|30R| 24R |30Y|36Y|42Y| 48Y |48Y|36Y|30Y| 24Y |30B|36B| + | | 6Y|12Y|18Y| 24Y |18R|12R| 6R| | 6B|12B|18B| 24B |18Y|12Y| + |16W|16W|16W|16W| 16W |16W|16W|16W| 16W |16W|16W|16W| 16W |16W|16W| + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + K|40R|35R|30R|25R| 20R |25Y|30Y|40Y| 40Y |35Y|30Y|35Y| 20Y |25B|30B| + | | 5Y|10Y|15Y| 20Y |15R|10R| 5R| | 5B|10B|15B| 20B |15Y| | + | W|24W|24W|24W| 24W |24W|24W|24W| 16W |24W|24W|24W| 24W | | | + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + L|32R|28R|24R|20R| 16R |20Y|24Y|28Y| 32Y |28Y|24Y|20Y| | | | + | | 4Y| 8Y| 8Y| 16Y |12R| 8R| 4R| | 4B| 8B| | | | | + |32W|32W|32W|32W| 32W |32W|32W|32W| 32W |32W| | | | | | + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + M|24R|21R|18R|15R| 12R |15Y|18R|21Y| 24Y | | | | | | | + | | 3Y| 6Y| 9Y| 12Y | 9R| 6R| | | | | | | | | + |40W|40W|40W|40W| 40W |40W| | | | | | | | | | + +---+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+------+---+---+---+-----+---+---+ + +A color is indicated by the intersection lines perpendicular and +horizontal. + + [A] This line shows the colors of the normal scale running from Red (R) + to Yellow (Y) to Blue (B) to Red (R). + + [B] This line and all below it show the same primary and secondary + colors lightened by added white. + + +#ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING# + +135. In considering artificial light, we will avoid all efforts to +analyze the different forms of energy, magnetic energy, electric energy, +heat energy, mechanical momentum, radiating energy, and deal with result +rather than with cause and effect. It will be sufficient to state as the +deduction of the scientist that certain waves or vibrations which affect +the fibers of the optic nerve are transmitted by the brain into color. +(¶ 3.) Self-luminous bodies are bodies which produce light. Illuminated +bodies shine by borrowed light, and are distinguished by the different +amounts and quantities of light which they reflect. A dense cloud which +appears nearly black when between the observer's eye and the sun, owing +to the degree of density with which it intercepts the light, may become +brilliantly white when the sun's rays fall upon its constituent +particles, for the light which cannot penetrate the cloud is continually +reflected to and from the surface of its minute parts. Thus it happens +that the lower part of a cloud seen against a background of dark +mountain may appear white, while the upper part may appear dull gray. In +the alteration of reflection we have an alteration of color. A stick of +sealing wax will show in some positions white reflected light, while in +other positions we see only the red. A polished plane furnishes one kind +of reflection, a piece of chalk another. + +136. The decorator has for years past been disposed to defer to the +illuminating engineer in the artificial lighting of a home. But while +the technical man or engineer may have a knowledge of power and energy, +he has not studied the decorative value of lighting. His problem has +been economic rather than psychologic. The illuminating engineer cannot +be expected to appreciate fully the harmonies of color in decoration. + +137. It is the decorator's province to consider not only the power of +light in the furnishing of a house, but the character of the light--not +only its color influence, but the structural character of its +introduction, as affecting these furnishings. It is beyond his province +to determine whether carbon should be replaced by tantalum, osmium or +tungsten to get higher efficiency, but he must understand the effects of +these lights and prescribe accordingly. + + +#ABSORPTION AND REFLECTION# + +138. The architect who designates the number and location of outlets for +the lighting sources, and specifies the candle-power of the lamps, knows +nothing of the ultimate decoration of the house. Very often the +specifications are finished before the color scheme has been decided +upon, and as a result the degree of illumination either falls short of +what is needed in case of dark-colored interiors, or proves excessive +with light-tinted rooms. The architect works from one point, economy, +the decorator from another, aesthetic; while the householder, the +consumer who pays the illuminating bills, cannot comprehend why his +lighting bills increase as his taste for luminous or dark-colored +furnishings is gratified. Many houses are left in the white plaster for +a year or more until the plaster settles. In this condition a small unit +of light is sufficient, but when the decorator completes his work, +adding fabrics and wall-papers which absorb and diminish the light, the +householder, unaware of the cause, notices a material increase in his +bills for illumination. These facts must be understood to be remedied, +and it remains for the illuminating engineer to determine by direct +experiment the value of any light as it affects and influences color, as +well as the value of color as it affects light. It may be assumed +without danger that the softest light is that of the candle, but we are +not living in the candle age, and have to deal with either gas or +electricity as the main illuminating agents. + +139. We have to consider the mercury arc light, the yellow flame carbon, +the white magnetite and titanium arc--all of high efficiency, giving +orange yellow in the flame-carbon to yellow and yellow white in the +acetyline of the tungsten filaments. Then we have the greenish yellow of +the Welsbach mantle, the bluish green of the mercury arc, the yellowish +white of the carbon arc, as well as the clear white of the titanium +arc. + +140. The subject may be divided into three heads: Quality, or +approximation to natural light. Quantity, as demanded by reflection or +absorption. Installation, diffusion or mechanical distribution. + +141. Normal light is the light of general diffusion in daylight, and +when we can find an artificial light that has the character of natural +light we will have what is obviously the best illuminant for the home. +Bear in mind that natural light as it appears out of doors is materially +altered when indoors by the presence of different planes and angles, +which cast and receive various depths of shadow; the quality required is +that which will provide illumination without glare. The sun's rays are +softened and mellowed by the depth of air through which they pass, and +it is this mellowness that is the chief requisite in illumination. + +Good decorative illumination does not mean illumination that reveals +every hidden corner of a room. We need shadows to betray form, relieve +monotony and give depth to the _ensemble_. If in an illuminated area +light is of a uniform intensity, we have a bad effect. The variation of +tone in a fabric is due to the light reaching it from a given point. +Differences in intensity make shadows and tones. + +142. The illuminating engineer treats the home as he treats a public +hall. He ignores the individuality of the room; the ball-room and the +sickroom are lighted alike. He does not always consider the diminished +force of light as it passes through a refracting surface, for it must be +borne in mind that any method of indirect lighting by refraction is apt +to cause a loss of volume. The use of various kinds of globes or lamp +shades must all be considered. A light-colored wall reflects +illumination, a dark-colored wall absorbs it; hence the amount of +illumination is increased or diminished by the color of the walls. + + +#LIGHT EFFECT ON COLOR# + +143. To illuminate a city, with the dull grim environment of streets and +houses, a soft yellow glow will give warmth and tone; the greenish +yellow of the Welsbach or the blue green of the mercury arc may even be +desirable, but the same green or violet rays are ghastly in a house, and +should never be permitted. + +144. The warm glow of the yellow light, while pleasing to the +complexion, is, however, objectionable as disturbing the color +composition of dress or furnishings. A gaslight sends a yellow glow over +all that it reaches, and has the same effect as the introduction of +yellow into every color tint in the room. The walls that are red take on +a scarlet hue; the scarlet ones are yellowed to orange; the blues become +greenish. + +145. In order that the decorator may more readily grasp the subject, we +have arranged a table showing the color changes effected by rays of +yellow, blue, green and violet: + + Orange rays falling on white make it appear orange. + " " red it appears reddish-orange. + " " orange it appears deeper orange. + " " yellow it appears orange-yellow. + " " green it appears dark yellow-green. + " " blue it appears dark reddish-gray. + " " violet it appears dark purplish-gray. + " " black it appears brownish-black. + + Yellow rays falling on white make it appear yellow. + " " red make it appear orange-brown. + " " orange make it appear orange-yellow. + " " yellow make it appear deeper yellow. + " " green make it appear yellowish-green. + " " blue make it appear slaty-gray. + " " violet make it appear purplish-gray. + " " black make it appear olive-black. + + Green rays falling on white make it appear green. + " " red make it appear yellowish-brown. + " " orange make it appear grayish-leaf-green. + " " yellow make it appear yellowish-green. + " " green make it appear deeper green. + " " blue make it appear bluish-green. + " " violet make it appear bluish-gray. + " " black make it appear dark greenish-gray. + + Blue rays falling on white make it appear blue. + " " red make it appear purple. + " " orange make it appear plum-brown. + " " yellow make it appear yellowish-gray. + " " green make it appear bluish-green. + " " blue make it appear deeper blue. + " " violet make it appear bluer. + " " black make it appear bluish-black. + + Violet rays falling on white make it appear violet. + " " red make it appear purple. + " " orange make it appear reddish-gray. + " " yellow make it appear purplish-gray. + " " green make it appear bluish-gray. + " " blue make it appear bluish-violet. + " " violet make it appear deeper violet. + " " black make it appear violet-black. + +146. The pale tints of electric lights, which make every face in a room +look ghastly, will affect quite as disastrously every soft color in the +furnishings. In ordinary gaslight a pair of white gloves looks yellow, +and we have seen Welsbach lamps which threw out a violet-blue +illumination, depressing in the extreme. Under a yellow glow, blues, +greens, violets and purples are greatly changed. Under a violet glow, +yellows and greens are ruined. To see all colors in about the same value +that they possess by daylight one must have a light in which no color +tone is apparent. + +The question as to the disposition and intensity of the lights is of +vital importance, and must be considered with the requirements of each +particular room in mind. + +147. For the drawing-room and reception-room it is desirable that all +parts of the room be evenly lighted, without a pronounced glare in any +particular part of the room. One of the most effective ways of +accomplishing this is by distributing the lights around the room, either +on the ceiling, in the cove or above a wide molding, so that the ceiling +acts as a reflecting agent, and distributes an even tone of light to all +parts. + + +#ILLUMINATION# + +148. For the dining-room and living-room a different plan must be used, +because of the different requirements. The table is usually in such +rooms the chief feature of the furnishings, and it is customary to focus +upon it the main body of light. While this is obviously necessary, the +surroundings must not be ignored; neither is it possible to raise the +center light to such a height that its radiation may reach all parts of +the room, because in so doing the light reaches the eye at an extremely +unpleasant angle. The drop fixture should be low enough to effectively +light all parts of the table, while at the same time its shade should +screen the light from the eyes of the room's occupants. To illuminate +the surrounding parts of the room other lights should be distributed +where they will most effectively supply what further illumination is +required. + +149. For the bedroom or boudoir the location of the lights should also +be subordinated to the purposes of the room, and in addition to +providing sufficient illumination to the entire area, special +illumination should be provided for the mirrors and the dressing-table. +The lights for the mirrors should be planned to illuminate the person +and not the image. + +150. For large reception-rooms in hotels and public institutions the +plan is frequently adopted of having all light provided by small table +lamps with opalescent shades. These provide a medium glow throughout the +entire room that is pleasing, and avoid entirely the garishness usually +associated with such rooms. One of the mistakes of the day is the use of +high-power lights, which are so intense that they require to be screened +or shaded, involving waste of light and concentrating an unnecessary +amount of illumination upon a narrow sphere. + + +#REFLECTIVE POWER OF COLOR# + +The following table will give an idea of the percentage of light +reflected from ordinary wall-hangings and papers: + + Per Cent. + Reflection + + White blotting-paper .82 + White cartridge-paper .80 + Ordinary foolscap .70 + Ordinary newspaper .50 to .70 + Chrome yellow paper .62 + Orange paper .50 + Yellow wall-paper .40 + Yellow painted wall (clean) .40 + Tracing cloth, pale blue .35 + Light pink paper .36 + Blue paper .25 + Emerald green .18 + Dark brown paper .13 + Vermilion paper .12 + Blue green paper .12 + Cobalt blue paper .12 + Black paper 0.5 + Deep chocolate paper 0.4 + French ultramarine blue paper 3.5 + Black cloth 1.2 + Black velvet 0.4 + +151. It is very difficult to select practical artificial illuminants, +because of the various color properties possessed by each. A Welsbach +mantle, which gives a greenish tint, is pretty sure to alter the +character of any color other than green. Incandescent electric light, as +well as ordinary gaslight, contains a yellow tint. + + +#THE COLOR OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS# + +152. In planning or matching colors for a room, it is best to consider +the purpose for which the room is to be used, and match the colors under +the same light conditions that will prevail in the finished room. + +Deep, full colors are less affected by the shadings in artificial +illuminants than lighter tones of the same color. + + ILLUMINANT. COLOR. + + Sun (high in sky) White. + Sun (near horizon) Orange red. + Sky light Bluish white. + Electric arc (short) White. + Electric arc (long) Bluish white to violet. + Nernst lamp White. + Incandescent (normal) Yellow-white. + Incandescent (below voltage) Orange to orange-red. + Acetyline flame Nearly white. + Welsbach light Greenish white. + Gaslight (Siemens burner) Nearly white, faint yellow tinge. + Gaslight (ordinary) Yellowish white to pale orange. + Kerosene lamp Yellowish white to pale orange. + Candle Orange yellow. + + +#ARTIFICIAL LIGHT APPLICATION# + +153. The introduction of light by the medium of a wire, which may be +carried to any point in a room, encourages so many possibilities for +comfort and effect that it behooves us to forget traditional customs +which were established during the gaslight period. The introduction of +gaslight through tubes was a rather complex problem, and the carrying of +the pipes into the room through a main chandelier was the most +advisable constructive form. But we have no need for such cumbersome +fixtures in this day of wiring. + +A mere cord takes the place of an inch pipe. Modern German and Austrian +lighting fixtures frequently are mere pendants, with the cord frankly in +evidence. In this way the lights may be placed wherever needed--at the +head of the lounge, so one may read more clearly by it; close by the +piano; over the tea-table. In fact, supplementary lights to the general +illumination are a convenience that the decorator should consider. + +154. The lighting of a house is a matter so dependent upon aesthetic +conditions that it is never within the scope of the electrician. It is a +problem for a decorator alone to solve. Intense and glaring lights of +unusual power must be avoided. Luminants of low intrinsic brilliancy are +preferable. + +155. The floor is the least important surface for illumination, and has +no reflecting power of value. The walls vary in value according to their +color and surface. With lights radiating upward, however, the ceiling +possesses definite power, and should be considered. + +156. Dark colors absorb light, while white and light colors reflect, and +this must always be remembered; for upon the character of the +decorations and furnishings of various rooms the quantity as well as the +quality of light has serious influence. + + +#POWER NECESSARY# + +157. While the list which we give herewith is based largely upon area, +it may be taken as a basis of calculation for lighting equipment. + +It is estimated that 300 square feet of a hallway requires four +sixteen-candlepower, or eight eight-candlepower units. + +In a room 20 x 20 feet, with furnishings of mahogany and green, broken +up by bookcases and other furniture producing heavy shadows, it is +estimated that twelve eight-candlepower lights are sufficient if worked +into the frieze, and that a reading lamp of not less than +thirty-two-candlepower be used as a drop light. + +Assuming a room is 15 x 15 feet, and furnished in light tones, four +eight-candlepower lamps are ample. + +A living-room 20 x 25 feet, in light tones of color, requires two +thirty-two-candlepower lights, centrally located, and about twelve +eight-candlepower lights. This should provide brilliant illumination. + +A room 15 x 20 feet, in dark wood and hangings, needs eight +eight-candlepower reflector lamps, backed up by six more +eight-candlepower lamps. + +Bedrooms 15 x 15 feet in size, where they are not furnished in deep +colors, should be equipped with two sixteen-candlepower lights. + + +#COLOR CONTROL# + +158. Mechanical lighting is so easily undertaken that it predisposes one +to extravagance. Properly applied, artificial light adds materially to +the charm of a room, but with illumination secured by the mere twist of +the wrist one is prone to ignore the value of shadows and kill the +beauty of light and shade by throwing illumination into the remotest +corners. The danger to good decoration is not only in overlighting, but +in overdecorating, and commercialism naturally encourages this tendency. +The floor is frequently best treated if not entirely covered with a +one-pattern treatment; the walls are frequently most pleasing if done in +several papers instead of one. The most effective room is the one +lighted in various degrees of strength, and while the decorator +unconsciously follows this idea and avoids superabundance of pattern by +using panels, friezes and wainscotings, we believe that each and every +section or part of a room should be treated separately, observing, of +course, a consistent spirit of design, preserving the period style and +the general color effect; we would vary the actual shade of coloring and +the size of pattern according to the dimensions of the wall space it +occupies. The large patterns and the strong colorings which may be +appropriate to an exposed wall are all out of proportion in narrow or +darkened confines. Dark and deep recesses should obviously be treated +differently to advanced or conspicuous spaces. + +159. At a recent meeting of the Illuminating Engineering Society, D. +McFarlan Moore made the following observations: "A few years ago there +was practically no way of changing the colors of the various forms of +lamps, that is, the candle had its color perforce; such a thing as +modifying it was not dreamed of. The oil lamp had its color; the open +burner gas flame its color, the incandescent lamp its color, and the +arc lamp its color. At the present time there are only two ways widely +in use of varying the color; that is, if a person wishes to have a light +of a different color, there are two main ways of getting it. One way is +to get another light source, and the other way is to use a diffusion +globe of some kind, which in any instance is extremely unscientific and +inefficient. Some of the most recent advances in this line are connected +with the flaming arc lamp. There we have an instance where the first +step, at least, was taken toward scientifically controlling the color +value. I refer to placing different chemicals in the carbon and thereby +obtaining a color which can, to a very great extent, be determined +previously. But still it by no means can be said that by means of the +flaming arc lamp the color factor is under perfect control. However, it +is possible now to have the color value under perfect control, and this +is obtained by utilizing a vacuum tube, and by changing the various +gases used in the tube to change the color. This has many advantages, +and from a scientific standpoint it cannot be criticised, as can the +other methods which have been used. For example, if you use a properly +regulated vacuum tube and feed it with air only, a pink light results; +if you feed it with nitrogen a yellow light results, and such a light +can be used for a great many purposes; in fact its range of usefulness +so far as the color is concerned, is about the same as that of the +ordinary incandescent lamp, and therefore can be used by florists or by +clothing merchants, and the distortion is not any worse than that of +the ordinary incandescent lamp. However, it is not by any means claimed +that when a tube is fed nitrogen, that the color is at all near +daylight; it is simply a color which appears about the same as that +produced by the ordinary incandescent lamp. Due to the enormous +radiating surfaces of the tube, the color in day time looks considerably +redder than that of the incandescent lamp because the lamp is extremely +small as compared with the tube. When such a tube is fed with carbon +dioxide at a definite pressure, and at a definite intensity, a light is +obtained that undoubtedly is closer to average daylight color values +than any light which has ever been produced before, and we can almost +say that it is entirely satisfactory. For instance, experts in matching +colors in the largest dye works of this country, men who have tried all +other forms of light, and found them not at all suitable for their uses, +have matched their colors under a vacuum tube supplied with carbon +dioxide and have found after months of practical use that they could not +detect any difference between most delicate lavender shades, when they +are matched at night time under the tube and in day time by daylight, +not direct sunlight." + + +#DRESS AND COMPLEXION# + +160. The nerves of the eye, exhilarated by any pronounced color, +unconsciously observe the complement of that color when turned from it. +The eye accustomed to the red of a woman's dress, unconsciously sees a +greenish cast in the face that is naturally pale, and in the same way +the pallor of a woman's face takes on a tint of red as the complement +or contrast of a green dress. As one's appetite for the thing that is +sweet becomes exhausted by a superabundance of sweets, so the eye +resting upon a mass of red in the dress of a woman fails to appreciate +the red tint in the face, and the face thus juxtaposed becomes pallid. A +red-faced woman often wears brighter red in dress, so that her face may +appear less red. The blue dress gives yellow to the face; the yellow +dress gives blue; these results are altered materially by the +intervention of white between the face and the dress. White intensifies +color. If there is a tinge of pink in the face white brings it out. If +there is sallowness in the face white accentuates it. It is for this +reason that many women wear yellow instead of white at the neck, so that +the yellow of the face becomes less conspicuous by contrast. (See ¶ 31.) + +161. It is dangerous, however, in matters of dress to strictly apply +this rule, because color has a temperamental influence apart from the +purely visual. Some women are positively depressed by certain colors; +such colors are to be avoided, no matter what the deductions of theory. +(See ¶ 94.) + +162. The black dress will make a woman look pale, for the reason that +the black absorbs whatever color there may be in her face. A dark color +has also absorbent characteristics. The lighter the color, the less +absorbent. Hence light greens are preferable to bring out the color in +the face than dark greens, assuming that we are to consider only this +point, which is all that is necessary to consider in house decoration. +Therefore light greens as a background to theater boxes or as a wall +background are always desirable. + + [Illustration: Lighting by wires. See ¶ 153.] + + +#COLOR TERMS# + + BROKEN COLOR. Color changed by the addition of black, + white or gray. + + CHROMA. Color. + + COLD COLORS are colors containing very little, if any, red or + yellow. + + CONTRAST ANALOGIES. Apparent contrasts of secondary and + tertiary colors which have constituent parts that are + related. Thus compositions of citrine and plum are apparent + contrasts, citrine being one of the three tertiary + colors, russet, slate and citrine, and plum being composed + of russet and slate, but in both citrine and plum + there is red, yellow and blue; hence related. There can + be no true contrasts excepting between primaries and + secondaries. + + GRAY. Normal gray is black and white mixed, but quaternary + colors are also called grays, or colors of the dull or + neutral scale. + + HARMONY OF ANALOGY is produced by using related colors. + + HARMONY OF CONTRAST. The juxtaposition of a primary + color, for example, with a secondary made of the other + two primaries. Thus of the primaries red, yellow and + blue, the contrasts would be red and green. Of the two + colors thus forming contrast the one is said to be the + COMPLEMENTARY of the other. + + HUE. Applied to the predominating color in a composition. + + INTENSE OR SATURATED COLORS. Colors that are pure, having + no tint or shade. + + NEUTRAL COLORS. Applied to black, gray and quaternary + colors. + + NORMAL. Intense colors of the prism. Colors of the natural + scale. + + PRISMATIC COLORS are the colors viewed through a prism. + + QUATERNARY COLORS. Made by combining two tertiary colors. + Quaternary colors are plum, sage and buff. + + SCALE. Relates to colors of the same degree of tone. + + SECONDARY COLORS. Orange, green and violet, each a combination + of two primaries. + + SHADE. Produced by the addition of black to a normal color. + + SOMBRE COLORS. Blue, violet and the subdued tones of luminous + colors. + + SPECTRUM. The illusion of color produced by means of the + prism. + + TERTIARY COLORS. Made by combining two secondary colors; + tertiary colors are slate, russet and citrine. + + TINT. Produced by the addition of white to a normal color. + + TONES are the gradations of color by adding either black or + white. + + WARM COLORS or luminous colors are those having normal + yellow or red in the preponderance. + + ADVANCING COLORS. Reds and bright yellow arouse the nerve + sense more quickly than blue or tones of color predominating + in blue. Hence they are called advancing colors. + + RECEDING COLORS. Blue colors or colors in which blue predominate + or the exciting influences of yellow or red are + subjugated, are cold or receding colors. + + + * * * * * + + + TABLE OF CONTENTS + + Paragraph. Page. + + Adjoining Rooms 38 to 47 + Advancing Colors 77, 78, 79, 80, 89 + Angles, Illusion of 113, 114, 115, 117 + Artificial Light, Colors of 86 + + Balance of Pattern 75, 76 + Borders 61, 62, 81, 86 + Bric-a-brac 60, 89 + Black, The Use of 33 + + Color Nomenclature 9 + Complexion 160 + Contrasting Colors 12, 14 to 24 + Contrast Analogies 17 to 20 + Ceiling 37, 42, 43, 93 + Curtains 53 to 56 + Cove and Ceiling 56 + Cornice 63 + Chair Coverings 64 + Colors that Give Size to a Room (See Receding Colors) + Carpet 81 + Color Sympathies 95 + Curves, The Use of 107, 108, 111, 114, 116, 118 + Color Terms 120 to 134 + Chart 127 + + Dress, Depressing Influences 161 + Dress, Woman's 160 + Decorative Illumination 141 + Definitions 89 + Draperies 42, 43 + Decorative Proportions 37 + + Exciting Colors 94, 160 + + Frieze, The Use of (See Wall Proportions, also Room Combinations) + Floors 42, 81, 84, 86, 87 42, 43 + + Gray, The Use of 32, 91, 92 + Guide to Color Harmony 127 + + Harmonies Mechanically Determined 132 + Height Effects 75, 76 + Harmony of Analogy 13, 17, 27, 93 + Harmonies 10 + + Illusion in the Use of Lines 107 to 119 + Intensification of Color 31, 33, 159 + + Joy in Lines (See Curves) + + Lights and Shadows 158 + Lighting a Room, Candle-power Needed 157 + Light Installation 84 + Light, Effect on Color 82 + Luminous Colors (See Advancing Colors) + Large Room, Dark 34 + Low-Ceiling Rooms 58 + Large Rooms 58 + Large, Well-Lighted Rooms 26 34 + Light 1, 8 + + Mixing Colors 8 + + Neutrals 121 + National Types of Color 47, 48 + Nature Colors 35, 96 + North Light 37, 59, 90, 91 + + Proportions in Color + Contrast 22 to 24, 28 to 30, 35 + Pigments, The Use of 22 + Proportions Effected by Design (See Decorative Proportions) + Proportions Effected by Color 77 + Period Uses of Color 47, 48 + Psychology of Color 94 + Picture Moldings 50 + Plate-Rails 48 to 59 + Progression of Color 34, 39 + Prismatic Colors 6, 7, 8 + + Room Combinations 23 to 28 + Rugs 81, 84 + Rooms Under Normal Conditions 42, 43 + Receding Colors 77, 80, 89 + Reflection 5, 135, 155, 156 + + Spectrum 1 + Small Dark Rooms 21 35 + Small Well-Lighted Rooms 25 35 + Sequence of Color 34, 35, 36, 41 + South Light 37, 59 + Side-wall 48 to 57, 92 + Small Room, High Ceiling 35 + Small Room, Low Ceiling 35 + Side-wall as Keynote 92 + Straight Lines, Effect of 107, 109, 111-113, 115-117, 119 + Seriousness in Lines (See Straight Lines) + Spectrum Theories 121, 122 + + Trade Terms Meaningless 124, 125 + Taste in Color, to Determine 94 + + White, The Use of 31, 33, 88, 89, 98, 159, 160 + Wood Trims 48 to 59 + Wainscoting 48 to 57, 62, 93 42, 43 + Width Effects 82 to 85, 87 + Wall Proportions 33 to 34 + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Color Value, by C. 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