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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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g for the use of hand-made creamic tiles of a soft grey-green for thefloor and a projection of the color over the wallarea. The magic touch of individuality was reach-ed with murals depicting the history of the estab-lishment. The result was startlingly beautiful andthe public responded to it with an enormous andcontinuing patronage. In this instance, what mighthave been a time-consuming problem for the archi-tect was solved with the assistance of a craftsmanscientifically versed in the use of pigments. Thearchitect witnessed the enrichment of his creationthrough the simple expedient of introducing theservices of a color consultant to his problems incolor. And, it paid dividends to the architect. Theclient was delighted with the finished plan andthe publics response and immediately retainedthe architect for a second project. The study of color is a relatively new develop- BELOW: Coordination of Architect, Color Consultant, andDesigner is evident in this view of the Frank Werner Store.
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. . . COLOR COIVSIILTAIVT ment, according to Elizabeth Banning, and mostarchitects have not had any intensive formaltraining in the subject. For example, when Eliza-beth Banning approached the Chicago Art Insti-tute and expressed the wish to study industrialcolor design, the mixing of pigments, and the useof color in industrial work, she was told that suchwork was being accomplished not at the Institutebut in Paint Laboratories. But today that is an en-tirely different story—the Chicago Art Institute hasthe most advanced course in Color Design with anenrollment of students numbering in the hundreds.By investigation Elizabeth Banning found that agood spot to study color in the laboratory was inGermany so she went to Coblenz. For two yearsshe worked in dungarees mixing paints. Sincethen, upon her return to the United States, she hasdone considerable pioneering in the color fieldin this country. Elizabeth Banning would be the first to say thata great deal of nonsense has been written a

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