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Color for Interiors: Course Readings

The New Munsell Student Color Set

Required Text: 

E-Book: Reed, Ron. The New Munsell Student Color Set. New York: Fairchild Books, 2024. Fairchild Books Interior Design Library. Web. 23 May 2024. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501392481>.

Print book: Long, Jim, Ron Reed, and Munsell Color. The New Munsell Student Color Set. Seventh ed. 2024. Print.

Suggested Readings

Finlay, Victoria. Color : a Natural History of the Palette. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. Print.

Fraser, Pamela. How Color Works : Color Theory in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 2017. Web.

Additional Readings on Color

Rompilla, Ethel., and New York School of Interior Design. Color for Interior Design. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. Print.

Ladau, Robert F., Jennifer. Place, and Brent K. Smith. Color in Interior Design and Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. Print.

Kilmer, Rosemary, and Kilmer, W. Otie. Designing Interiors. Second ed. 2014. Print.

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Jacob Christian Schaffer's color table (1779)