The inaugural Designers & Books Fair, launching the last weekend of October in New York City—October 26–28—is growing bigger. We continue to add new programs and new exhibitors and hope you’ll plan to join us for one or more panel discussions and to take advantage of the chance to mingle with a vibrant international design community in the Exhibition Hall.
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Jan 8, 2013
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Product/industrial designer Jeffrey Bernett: CDS/Consultants for Design Strategy (New York)
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“School only teaches you so much,” says Jeffrey Bernett in his book list introduction for Designers & Books. The designer of acclaimed residential and office furniture, household products, lighting, packaging, and interior architecture for companies such as B&B Italia, Design Within Reach, and Herman Miller recommends reading broadly as not only “a quest to gain knowledge” but also “a thought-provoking journey in its own right.”
Jan 17, 2012
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Interior Designer Ernest de le Torre: de la Torre Design Studio (New York)
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It’s been said that one of the most valuable traits of a gifted interior designer is perfection of the power of absorption. If there is truth to this, then Ernest de le Torre is certainly exemplary. He grew up in the Midwest, but from his Cuban parents retained a Latin sensibility. His design influences from his Chicago area upbringing include both the formal traditionalism of David Adler and the spare, modern geometry of Mies van der Rohe.
Nov 1, 2011
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On Day 275 after launching Designers & Books this past February 1, we find ourselves with more than 1,050 books, book lists from 82 designers and 15 commentators, and visitors from 175 countries. Sure enough, we do keep focused on the growing numbers. But more important, we are also dedicated to creatively evolving an enlightening and entertaining resource for the world of design books. To do this, during the month of November we will be introducing several new features and expanding some original ones.
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Nov 14, 2012
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Designers & Books has partnered with AIGA and Design Observer to continue the “50 Books/50 Covers” competition honoring excellence in book design.
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Nov 8, 2011
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Interior designer David Easton (New York)
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David Easton comes to books the same way he does to interior design—from a richly textured background threaded through with his own inimitable instincts. After earning a degree in architecture from Pratt Institute and then making full-scale furniture drawings for modernist Edward Wormley, Easton worked for the firm of Parish-Hadley (where he was “seduced by decoration”) before establishing his own practice in 1972. As one of the most in-demand interior designers, he became noted for his neoclassical approach to architecture, interior decorating, and furnishings.
Dec 13, 2012
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Product/industrial designer Stefano Giovanni: Giovannoni Design (Milan)
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On industrial designer Stefano Giovannoni’s book list for Designers & Books are five titles by the French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard. Why? Giovannoni thinks it’s very important for a designer “to open one’s vision to the philosophical and sociological aspects related to the evolution of our society.” “I’ve never found a design book deep enough for a broad vision of our profession,” he says in the introduction to his book list.
May 15, 2012
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Architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano: LOT-EK (New York and Naples)
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LOT-EK (read “low-tech”) founding partners Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano have gained high visibility for their groundbreaking approach to construction, materials, and space and through the adaptive reuse (“upcycling”) of existing industrial objects and systems not originally intended for architecture.
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Jul 26, 2011
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Interior design editor and author Stanley Abercrombie: Interior Design magazine (Sonoma, CA)
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For someone whose long career has been devoted in large part to words, Stanley Abercrombie has some impressive numbers: In his more than 50 years at the forefront of reading and writing on architecture and interiors, he has been editor in chief of three eminent design magazines (Interiors, Abitare in America, and Interior Design—which he ran for 14 years, beginning in 1983); authored 11 books; written over 1,500 articles for 46 different magazines; and has roughly 12,000 books in his personal library. In addition, he currently serves as books editor at Interior Design magazine, reviewing a steady stream of books each year.
Apr 16, 2013
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Graphic designer and curator Prem Krishnamurthy: Project Projects and P! (New York)
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A founding principal of the New York studio Project Projects, graphic designer Prem Krishnamurthy has made text and the written word a major focus of what he does. The studio’s artists’ books and exhibition catalogues, along with its work in a range of media—from websites to exhibition design, signage, and visual identities with clients including the Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and SALT Istanbul—have been widely acclaimed for their progressive approach to visual form.
