Bob Buckter: Architectural Color Design

About Bob Buckter

Since 1970, this San Francisco original has been combining his passions for art and architecture to transform buildings across San Francisco and beyond. His distinct calling card signs can be seen on many of the projects aroud the city, but that's just a fraction of his tireless output. Specializing in historic homes, Bob has worked with some 15,000 clients on over 20,000 consulting projects. He hasn't stopped taking on new clients. His work has won numerous awards and been featured in the Painted Ladies books and other publications, but this is the first time that a single volume has been produced spanning the full breadth of Bob's output across decades.

About the Book

This is a lovingly crafted and lavishly illustrated celebration one of San Francisco's most influential artisans: Bob Buckter, known to all as “Dr. Color.” Since 1970, this San Francisco original has been consulting on colors, transforming tens of thousands of buildings across San Francisco and beyond, while helping define how the world sees the city and its “painted ladies.” Bob Buckter: Architectural Color Design is a loving career retrospective featuring over 120 of Bob's projects across the last half-century. Written by local historian Ben Zotto and profusely illustrated with photographs taken or curasted by Anson Moran, Bob Buckter: Architectural Color Design also includes Bob's unbelievable biography, historical background on San Francisco's Victorian buildings, and profiles of two of Bob's closest collaborators. A bonus essay by Dr. Color himself explains his thought process for color selection and is useful to anyone thinking about their own paint colors—or curious about how a half century of color design principles could inform other disciplines. The book is hardcover bound and printed on heavy gloss paper.