Here are just a few selections from our annual, highly unscientific roundup of the best design books of 2021.
Photographer Leslie Williamson's Still Lives: In the Homes of Artists, Great and Unsung features the living spaces and studios of Giorgio Morandi, Georgia O’Keeffe, Isamu Noguchi, and more; $69 from Bookshop.
A Modern Way to Live, by Matt Gibberd, cofounder of UK estate agency The Modern House, is £25 from The Modern House.
Beata Heuma, a Swedish-born, London-based interior designer on the rise, has a new book out, Every Room Should Sing; $50.60 from Bookshop.
From NY-based design firm Workstead, Workstead: Interiors of Beauty and Necessity is $59.80 from Bookshop.
Eight Homes: Clements Design, from the mother-and-son founders of LA interior design firm Clements Design, is $61.72 from Amazon.
A Room of Her Own: Inside the Homes and Lives of Creative Women by Robyn Lea, is $41.40 from Bookshop.
Simplicity at Home: Japanese Rituals, Recipes, and Arrangements for Thoughtful Living by Fog Linen founder Yumiko Sekine is $25.30 from Bookshop.