Color Code
Tired of feeling so “black and white,” with the occasional gray cloud lingering high overhead? Are these dark moods really getting to you? Help has arrived in a book with a twist, “Colour Hunting: How Colour Influences What We Buy, Make and Feel to give us clues on how visual experiences affect the senses and shape our subconscious. The three chapters: “Commerce” (buying, selling) “Aesthetics” (making) and the relationship between the body, mind and colour “Wellbeing” (feeling) are accompanied by in-depth comments from experts on various color experimentations that dominate the world of art, fashion and design. Like they say, live in color! Available from Amazon, $59.00
Close Up
“Part of Todd’s [Eberle] gift is the great memory that informs his eye and its logic.” So remarked writer, filmmaker Glenn O’Brien whose interview with the prolific photographer appears in the poetic book Todd Eberle: Empire of Space, a first time look back at his career with rare never before seen photographs. Eberle chronicles American culture from the perspective of a contemporary artist and journalist to reveal the unfamiliar in familiar subjects bringing precision and proportion to his photographs. A photographer-at-large at Vanity Fair, the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Carter Graydon contributed the Foreword and art and cultural critic David Hickey’s essay captures the essence of Eberle’s unique talent. Price: $85.00, Todd Eberle: Empire of Space
Image credit: ©Todd Eberle, FROM EMPIRE OF SPACE, Rizzoli 2011
Count Counterpoint
One of the most lauded traditional decorators, Matthew Patrick Smyth compares designing interiors to a classical composer striving for balance in a composition where count counterpoint achieves a perfect symmetry. Smyth blends and mixes furnishings with similar lines, materials and forms for a thoroughly modern sensibility. His recently published book Living Traditions: Interiors by Matthew Patrick Smyth reveals his design tips and focuses on editing collections to better showcase individual works, the personal nature of color selection and finishing off a space with stunning, unexpected fabrics and trims. Over two hundred color photographs illustrate the diversity of his style from a London flat to a nature infused vacation Aspen home. Living Traditions: Interiors by Matthew Patrick Smyth, $50.00
