Van Day Truex Professions : Fashion designerBorn : 1904Died : 1979 Browse All Authors Top 21 quotes by Van Day Truex Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure. Van Day Truex temperaturedesigncolor How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms. Van Day Truex designcolorunderstanding In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher. Van Day Truex designmotherteacher The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield. Van Day Truex designcolorstrong Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two! Van Day Truex designdifferencestwo Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management. Van Day Truex designeyeappreciation I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color. Van Day Truex colorchoicescharacter Good design is forever. Van Day Truex interior-designdesignforever Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration. Van Day Truex designcolorneeds Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done. Van Day Truex inspirationmuseumsideas There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting. Van Day Truex designperiodsrooms The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior. Van Day Truex reigndesignart Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation. Van Day Truex small-roomscolordark The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client. Van Day Truex designnegativeideas Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing. Van Day Truex designroomsart It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger knowledge, more experience and flair. Van Day Truex strongerdesigncolor It is obvious that any rather non-color, monochromatic design is safe, easier, more generally restful and with life being the hurdy-gurdy that it is, more and more of us prefer and interior giving the maximum response. Van Day Truex designcolorgiving Rich colors are typical of a rich nature. Van Day Truex typicaldesigncolor I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone. Van Day Truex designcolorexample Control, edit and distill. Van Day Truex interior-designeditsdesign Similar Authors Brunello Cucinelli fashion-designer Bruce Oldfield fashion-designer Alice Temperley fashion-designer Anya Hindmarch fashion-designer Austin Scarlett fashion-designer Anne Klein fashion-designerAll Authors
