Our highly opinionated annual guide to the year’s best design books, in no particular order.
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
Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books, by Nina Freudenberger and Sadie Stein, with photography by Shade Degges, is $20.99.
Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books
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.
Vincenzo de Cotiis: Works
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.
The Foraged Home, by Oliver Maclannan with photography by Joanna Mclannan, is $22.49.
The Foraged Home
A celebration of both sustainability and design, highlighting characterful interiors filled with salvaged, recycled, and repurposed objects from around the world.
A collection of projects from the of-the-moment interiors architect (we’re obsessed with this project: Sculptural Minimalism: A Winery Guesthouse by a French Architect in Portugal’s Douro Valley).
Pierre Yovanovitch: Interior Architecture
John Pawson: Anatomy of Minimum
The latest monograph from Phaidon documents work from throughout John Pawson’s career, including his own house in the English countryside.
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.
Axel Vervoordt: Portraits of Interiors
Living with Charlotte Perriand: The Art of Living
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.
New Nordic Houses
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.
The proprietors of design shop Poketo in Los Angeles gives readers a look into the homes and studios of 23 of their favorite creatives. Creative Spaces: People, Homes, and Studios to Inspire, by Ted Vadakan and Angie Myung, is $19.30.
Creative Spaces: People, Homes, and Studios to Inspire
Ehrlich Yanai Outside-In: New California Modernism
A collection of minimalist California houses by Steven Ehrlich and Takashi Yanai of Los Angeles AIA award-winning EYRC Architects.