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Title: Color Value

Author: C. R. Clifford

Release Date: April 11, 2008 [EBook #25042]

Language: English

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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