--- product_id: 50634711 title: "Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color: (Coffee Table Books, Design Books, Best Books about Color)" price: "67198CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/50634711-pantone-the-twentieth-century-in-color-coffee-table-books-design store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # 80 official Pantone palettes 100 years of color history 200+ iconic artworks & designs Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color: (Coffee Table Books, Design Books, Best Books about Color) **Price:** 67198CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎨 Own the palette that shaped a century of style and culture ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color: (Coffee Table Books, Design Books, Best Books about Color) - **How much does it cost?** 67198CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/50634711-pantone-the-twentieth-century-in-color-coffee-table-books-design) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Iconic Inspirations:** Over 200 landmark artworks, fashion, and décor pieces meticulously matched to their true hues. - • **Pantone-Perfect Precision:** 80 official Pantone palettes ensure authentic, exact color reproduction every time. - • **Creative Powerhouse Resource:** Essential for designers, artists, and style professionals seeking period-accurate palettes. - • **A Century of Chromatic Evolution:** Explore 100 transformative years of color shaping culture and design. - • **More Than a Book—A Cultural Time Machine:** Dive into the social and emotional impact of color across the 20th century. ## Overview Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color is a visually stunning, decade-by-decade guide featuring 80 official Pantone palettes and over 200 iconic artworks and designs. Authored by color experts Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker, this coffee table book is an indispensable resource for professionals and enthusiasts aiming to capture authentic 20th-century color trends with precision and cultural insight. ## Description Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. "In this visual feast for color nerds, hue gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify the shades that shaped our collective color palette."―Fast Company From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. In this incredible and unique exploration of color, longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, décor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. A color theory book like no other, this vibrant volume takes the social temperature of our recent history with the panache that is uniquely Pantone. STUNNING ART BOOK AND RESOURCE GUIDE: A treasure trove of inspiration and reference for artists, designers, stylists, and lovers of fashion design, modern architecture, contemporary art, furniture, and home décor. HANDS-ON GUIDANCE FOR CREATIVES: As one reviewer notes, "this is a coffee table–sized decade-by- decade guide to the colors of the 20th century, with Pantone color palette listings to enable you to reproduce them exactly right." COLOR MATTERS: Color as a form of communication is incredibly powerful. Its ability to influence thought, mood, and action is gaining newfound attention in the field of modern psychology and in our collective reach for bettering ourselves emotionally and spiritually. Perfect for:  Artists, graphic designers, fashion and décor designers, set decorators, and any professional who incorporates color into their work  Library and museum curation  Homeowners looking for period design inspiration  Fans of cultural history, color exploration, and interior design  Readers of Architectural Digest, Dwell, Wallpaper, and The World of Interiors Review: Pantone palettes make this the best way to achieve authentic period colour - This is a coffee-table sized decade by decade guide to the colours of the 20th century, with Pantone colour palette listings to enable you to reproduce them exactly right. In anything short of a truly exhaustive encyclopaedia, the choice of what to include is always going to be subjective, and the colour quality of the images is going to be dependent on the press. This is why the colour matching palettes are so important: if you have Pantone swatches, you can match the period colours. Despite the format, this is not a coffee table reminiscence of the 20th century. Rather, it is a guide for designers wishing to quickly achieve a period feel. There are thousands of 20th century review books out there, plus a wealth of material in libraries. However, because colour reproduction was relatively flakey up until the 1960s, and not truly compelling until the late 1990s, most of what is in print is a poor guide to what the colours were. On the other hand, there are still lots of people who remember the decades from the 1930s onwards, plus many others who have seen carefully preserved paintings and artefacts in museums. It's therefore easy to get the colours almost-right, but very hard to get them exactly right. It's easy to underestimate the amount of work that has gone into this book, and the difficulty of the task. Leatrice Eiseman is one of the few experts I really trust on colour, and her other Pantone books are essential resources on my book-shelf. Eiseman and Recker went back to original paintings, textiles and other artefacts to get the colours exactly right. In doing so, they have had to balance shifts in colours and perceptions and choose—as much as they could—the moment at which a colour was defining. Inevitably—as they admit—there will be discrepancies, but the result is still going to be far better—and far more convenient—than trying to match a Pantone colour to an sRGB image on the internet, captured in who-knows-what conditions and scanned with possibly little understanding of colour workflow. There are eight palettes for each decade—again, a difficult choice, as the authors admit. However, for most people working with colour, this is enough to achieve a period feel without having to go down to the V&A museum with a set of swatches. This is an enjoyable book in its own right, though nothing remarkable or hard to come by—except for the colour matching work, which puts it in the category of designers' 'must-haves'. Review: Lady Anna - I have just received in the post this week my 'new to me' Pantone the 20th Century in Colour book and I am ever so excited about it. I say new to me, because it was sold as used - but you wouldn't know, it looks spanking brand new!! I have just discovered desertcart - being a bit of an old school girl at heart - never really thought about buying on the internet... but now that I have received a few books recently and have been really happy with them I am becoming an online purchase junkie. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting inspiration for colour palettes. Lady Anna ## Features - Chronicle Books CA ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 236,059 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 150 in Graphic Design Colour Use 192 in Professional Interior Design 2,132 in Other Art Media & Techniques | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 657 Reviews | ## Images ![Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color: (Coffee Table Books, Design Books, Best Books about Color) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51zkSw95muL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pantone palettes make this the best way to achieve authentic period colour *by M***R on 19 January 2016* This is a coffee-table sized decade by decade guide to the colours of the 20th century, with Pantone colour palette listings to enable you to reproduce them exactly right. In anything short of a truly exhaustive encyclopaedia, the choice of what to include is always going to be subjective, and the colour quality of the images is going to be dependent on the press. This is why the colour matching palettes are so important: if you have Pantone swatches, you can match the period colours. Despite the format, this is not a coffee table reminiscence of the 20th century. Rather, it is a guide for designers wishing to quickly achieve a period feel. There are thousands of 20th century review books out there, plus a wealth of material in libraries. However, because colour reproduction was relatively flakey up until the 1960s, and not truly compelling until the late 1990s, most of what is in print is a poor guide to what the colours were. On the other hand, there are still lots of people who remember the decades from the 1930s onwards, plus many others who have seen carefully preserved paintings and artefacts in museums. It's therefore easy to get the colours almost-right, but very hard to get them exactly right. It's easy to underestimate the amount of work that has gone into this book, and the difficulty of the task. Leatrice Eiseman is one of the few experts I really trust on colour, and her other Pantone books are essential resources on my book-shelf. Eiseman and Recker went back to original paintings, textiles and other artefacts to get the colours exactly right. In doing so, they have had to balance shifts in colours and perceptions and choose—as much as they could—the moment at which a colour was defining. Inevitably—as they admit—there will be discrepancies, but the result is still going to be far better—and far more convenient—than trying to match a Pantone colour to an sRGB image on the internet, captured in who-knows-what conditions and scanned with possibly little understanding of colour workflow. There are eight palettes for each decade—again, a difficult choice, as the authors admit. However, for most people working with colour, this is enough to achieve a period feel without having to go down to the V&A museum with a set of swatches. This is an enjoyable book in its own right, though nothing remarkable or hard to come by—except for the colour matching work, which puts it in the category of designers' 'must-haves'. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lady Anna *by A***A on 7 August 2012* I have just received in the post this week my 'new to me' Pantone the 20th Century in Colour book and I am ever so excited about it. I say new to me, because it was sold as used - but you wouldn't know, it looks spanking brand new!! I have just discovered Amazon - being a bit of an old school girl at heart - never really thought about buying on the internet... but now that I have received a few books recently and have been really happy with them I am becoming an online purchase junkie. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting inspiration for colour palettes. Lady Anna ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful book! *by V***S on 28 June 2022* Information and inspiration ## Frequently Bought Together - Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color: (Coffee Table Books, Design Books, Best Books About Color) - The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition: Expert Color Information for Professional Results - The Secret Lives of Color --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/50634711-pantone-the-twentieth-century-in-color-coffee-table-books-design](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/50634711-pantone-the-twentieth-century-in-color-coffee-table-books-design) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-07-27*