![]() ![]() St Clair also reveals similar hidden dimensions to the history of fabric in her equally stunning new title, The Golden Thread. ![]() The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. Originally available as a much-sought after hardback edition, this paperback version captures all the colourful essence of the original and can be read either as an enthralling narrative journey or something to dip into for inspiration and sometimes surprising intrigue. Books similar to The Secret Lives of Color The Secret Lives of Color. The Secret Lives of Colour peels back the hidden history of some 75 pigments and reveals their mesmeric relationship to our culture, from the origins of silver being the substance of choice for our tableware to Isaac Newton’s surprisingly arbitrary definition of the spectrum to entertain his own theories. Even Farrow & Ball dont know as much about colour as. 'A dazzling and vibrant history of colour, from Van Gogh's wilting yellow sunflowers to Turner's deadly green and Picasso's darkest period' - The Mail on Sundayįrom its origins as a column in Elle Decoration, Kassia St Clair presents a dazzling catalogue of the hues that have shaped our planet. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study. The Secret Lives of Colour was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times top-five bestseller. Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for November 2018 ![]()
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