The colours of Rome
Subtitle: an examination of the use of colour on the façades of today's Rome, with historical and other notes, and a selection of colours copied on site
By: John Sutcliffe
Contributors: Old School Press
Publisher: Old School Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9781899933334
Subjects: Architecture; Color in architecture; Facades; Buildings, structures
Description: John Sutcliffe knows about colour. A former regional curator at the National Trust and now active as a decorative painter, his expertise in the topic, in particular in an architectural setting, was extensively used by Farrow & Ball, a company that will surely be known to many, at the time when they were first building up their reputation for traditional paints and hand-produced wallpapers. For many years John's interest in colour has taken him to the Mediterranean, to Italy, and in particular to Rome. The buildings of Rome's centro storico carry on their walls many layers of coloured limewash and distemper, layers that have both accumulated and decayed over time, thereby capturing the changing fashions in colour.--publisher's website.
Notes: "There are 99 standard copies numbered 1-99 and 25 de luxe copies lettered A-Y."

Avery Classics copy: Signed on final leaf by John Sutcliffe.

Avery Classics copy: No. 61.

Binding: bound in full brown cloth, protected by an inner sleeve inside which the wallet of paint patches is attached; yellow label with brown lettering pasted onto spine.