Our highly opinionated annual guide to the year’s best design books, in no particular order.
(N.B.: As always, we like shopping our local bookstore first, but we’ve listed Amazon prices here, if that’s your preference.)
Francois Halard: A Visual Diary
Above: The famed French interior and architectural photographer explores interiors from Philip Johnson and Charles James’s de Menil House, to Giorgio Morandi’s studio, to Rick Owens’s radical Paris apartment. Francois Halard, A Visual Diary, by Francois Halard, is $61.78.
Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books
Above: Interior designer Nina Freudenberger, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and interiors photographer Shade Degges take us on a tour of private libraries and the bookshelves of readers all over the world, including Larry McMurtry, Silvia Whitman of Shakespeare and Co., Gay and Nan Talese, and Emma Straub. Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books, by Nina Freudenberger and Sadie Stein, with photography by Shade Degges, is $20.99.
Vincenzo de Cotiis: Works
Above: A new book from T Magazine‘s interiors editor, featuring the work of an Italian designer who “feels free, even compelled, to explore the ambient tension between crumbling antiquity and futuristic minimalism,” as Delavan says. Vincenzo de Cotiis: Works, by Tom Delavan and Joseph Grima, is $59.99.
The Foraged Home
Above: A celebration of both sustainability and design, highlighting characterful interiors filled with salvaged, recycled, and repurposed objects from around the world. The Foraged Home, by Oliver Maclannan with photography by Joanna Mclannan, is $22.49.
Above: The latest monograph from Phaidon documents work from throughout John Pawson’s career, including his own house in the English countryside. John Pawson: Anatomy of Minimum, by Alison Morris, is $52.99.
Axel Vervoordt: Portraits of Interiors
Above: A book about the oasis of home, including 17 projects in America, Belgium, England, France, Italy, and Spain, as well as the firm’s first work in India, Russia, and Japan. Axel Vervoordt: Portraits of Interiors, by Michael Gardner with photography by Laziz Hamani, is $52.99.
Living with Charlotte Perriand: The Art of Living
Above: A catalog of the always relevant designer’s work, featuring her iconic chairs, tables, and bookshelves in situ, as well as highlighted piece by piece. Living with Charlotte Perriand: The Art of Living, by Cynthia Fleury, is $49.41.
New Nordic Houses
Above: Divided into four chapters—rural cabins, coastal retreats, town houses, and country homes―this book surveys Scandinavia’s most innovative houses, featuring work by a broad spectrum of leading architects. New Nordic Houses, by Dominic Bradbury, is $32.99.
Creative Spaces: People, Homes, and Studios to Inspire
Ehrlich Yanai Outside-In: New California Modernism
Above: A collection of minimalist California houses by Steven Ehrlich and Takashi Yanai of Los Angeles AIA award-winning EYRC Architects. Ehrlich Yanai Outside-In: New California Modernism, by Steven Ehrlich and Takashi Yanai, is $40.66.
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