ABSTRACT
Like all other elements of interior design, color communicates, carrying messages about design intent from the designer to the user. As in any kind of communication, too many simultaneous messages can be confusing. Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., advised that "the fewer colors used in a room, the more pleasing" the result would be. "A multiplicity of colors produces the same effect as a number of voices talking at the same time. The voices may not be discordant, but continuous chatter is fatiguing in the long run." Vision fails completely in the absence of light and also in excessive glare. Between these two extremes is a wide range of lighting levels, each providing its own level of visual efficiency and comfort? And at each level there is an infinite choice of lighting qualities and effects. The interior designer has many choices to make, concerning not only how to make a design visible, but concerned with its character to emphasize.
