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… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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.… — Van Day Truex Copy Share
Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two! — Van Day Truex Copy Share
Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing. — Van Day Truex Copy Share
There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting. — Van Day Truex Copy Share
I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of… — Van Day Truex Copy Share
Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration. — Van Day Truex Copy Share
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations… — Van Day Truex Copy Share
It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need… — Van Day Truex Copy Share
How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share
The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV… — Van Day Truex Copy Share
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but… — Van Day Truex Copy Share
