CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/15/2019

We are smitten by Atelier Editions' 'An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour'

Featured spreads are from An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour, one of the most charming books on our list this season. Documenting the Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection, it begins with an epigraph taken from Yoko Ono: "If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pink and greens." Over the course of the next 220 beautifully-designed pages, it catalogues and describes a selection of the 2,500 rare pigments in this world-renowned color collection. Playful yet scholarly texts, outstanding still-life photography, artist quotations and a wonderful glossary make this an essential reference for artists and designers, as well as the perfect gift for anyone with exquisite visual taste.