The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition

To mark the centennial in November 2013 of the publication of the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Designers & Books posed its own version of the Proust Questionnaire, Book Edition, to contributors and friends in the design community. We posted a new set of answers daily in November and December 2013.
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The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Tony Brook November 4, 2013

The book Tony Brook could never finish, his favorite book character, and 23 more answers to Designers & Books’ special questionnaire. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Tom Geismar December 5, 2013

Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv’s Tom Geismar reports that his favorite book character is Babar and that his favorite writer (of the opposite gender) is Jhumpa Lahiri. More of Tom Geismar’s answers to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Todd Oldham December 10, 2013

Todd Oldham reads for hours in the bathtub (Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Parker), owns a book about living in a station wagon, and thinks he hates Ayn Rand. These and more answers from Todd to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Tina Roth Eisenberg November 20, 2013

Tina Roth Eisenberg (“swissmiss”) highlights obsessively on her Kindle, has a slew of favorite children’s books, and just might be writing her own book soon. These and more of Tina’s answers to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Thomas Girst December 4, 2013

BMW’s Thomas Girst read Stephen King as a child. Today he’s in the middle of rereading all the volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. “While reading Proust, you live with him,” Girst says, among many more answers to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Steven Heller November 11, 2013

Steven Heller has a thing for Eloise, names his favorite female writer, and gives more answers to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Stanley Abercrombie December 3, 2013

Architecture and interior design editor and author Stanley Abercrombie has been been “dipping into Finnegans Wake for half a century,” favors poetry, and admires Rizzoli’s series of Richard Meier monographs and their design by Massimo Vignelli. Stanley gives these and 10 more answers to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Seymour Chwast December 2, 2013

Graphic designer and Push Pin Studios co-founder Seymour Chwast says his favorite book character is Joseph Heller’s John Yossarian and that he wants the last book he reads to be Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon. These and more answers from Seymour to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Sagi Haviv December 9, 2013

Question: “Your favorite book title (because you like the sound of it):” Sagi Haviv’s answer: “On Bullshit, by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt.” Sagi answers more questions from The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition. More...

The Proust Questionnaire — Book Edition
By Rudy VanderLans December 6, 2013

Emigre co-founder Rudy VanderLans is partial to Joan Didion and his copy of Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip. He buys his books at Moe’s Bookstore in Berkeley. More...