128 Farben

Katrin Trautwein

Published by Birkhäuser 2010

128 Farben

Ein Musterbuch für Architekten, Denkmalpfleger und Gestalter

Katrin Trautwein

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783034611695

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An instrument for the selection of color

Dealing with color is a complex subject: influenced by standards, fashions, and trends, we derive our ideas and concepts from color theories, intuition, and personal preferences. The color swatches and systems for describing color common today are based on purely quantitative principles and include well over 1,500 colors. So how do we choose a particular color?

More than ten years ago, the color chemist Katrin Trautwein established a pigment factory, starting out from Le Corbusier’s color palette. She now has more than 900 recipes for paint from which she has proposed – based on her work with architects, designers, and historical preservationists – a selection of 128 colors that produce pleasant results on their own and also combine well. Each color is presented with a sample; their potential uses and significance are also discussed.

Katrin Trautwein has lectured throughout the world on how to approach colors, given seminars, given expert opinions, advised architects, taught painters, and worked as a restorer.

A tool of the trade in a user-friendly design with a spiral binding and a hard cover
With information on the origins of the paints and pigments used
With approximations for the color description systems commonly used today, such as CMYK and RGB

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Starting with A. Rüegg’s book Polychromie Architecturale, the American-born chemist studied the recipes of all sixty-three shads that Le Corbusier developed for Salubra between 1931 and 1959. In 1998 she founded the pigment company kt.color in Uster, near Zurich. In 2000 she received an exclusive license from the Fondation Le Corbusier to produce the sixty-three colors as artists’ colors and wall paints (interior and exterior) and to distribute them worldwide. Since then, she has been expanding production, assembling additional color recipes (more than 900 in all), developing a comprehensive palette of whites, working with historically important colors that the industry has neglected (e.g., Yves Klein’s ultramarine blue and Semper’s Pompeian red) but whose use still makes sense today, not only for aesthetic reasons but also economic and ecological reasons. In addition to producing pigments, Katrin Trautwein is a consultant to architects and developers and is asked for second opinions; she also offers regular seminars for architects, interior designers, house painters, and so on, on the subjects such as crafts; color design; pigment colors; principles of materials; the color concepts behind Le Corbusier’s palette; light and shadow colors; new objects, new color concepts, and so on. She is called in for restoration projects to determine colors and provide materials (Le Corbuser’s Maison Blanche, Lux Guyer’s Saffa-Haus, and others); she gives lectures throughout Europe and in the United States.

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Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
1. Weiße Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
2. Graue und schwarze Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
3. Umbren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Bronzen und Metallics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
5. Gelbe Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
6. Ocker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7. Orange Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
8. Rote Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
9. Rote Ocker und braune Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
10. Karmin, Violett und Purpur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
11. Blaue Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
12. Grüne Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Impressum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296

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Language: German
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Edition: 1st Edition.
Audience: Professional/practitioner
Pages
- Main content: 296
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- Coloured Illustrations: 128
Keywords: Farbdesign; Farbmaterial; Farbsystem; Farbwahrnehmung; Farbzusammenstellung

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Published: December 13, 2012
ISBN: 9783034611695

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128 Farben

Ein Musterbuch für Architekten, Denkmalpfleger und Gestalter