The Designers & Books Online Book Fair 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
Over 145 titles specially selected for holiday shopping lists. Over 850 books to browse every day
November 21, 2014
Our first Online Book Fair Holiday Gift Guide is here! Featuring over 145 new and newly selected books in architecture, design, art, and photography, including many titles with discounts, the Holiday Gift Guide is designed to make this year’s holiday shopping (or shopping any time of year) for design and book lovers easy, informative—and fun.
The Holiday Gift Guide brings you books from close to 20 participating design book publishers and rare and out of printbook dealers, including: AMMO Books, Doppelhouse Press, Gestalten, Lars Müller, Laurence King, The MIT Press, ORO Editions (GOFF Books, Applied Research + Design), Paintbox Press, Phaidon, Prestel, Princeton Architectural Press, RIT Press, Rockport, Schiffer, Strelka, The Wolfsonian-FIU, and Carnegie Hill Books, F.A. Bernett, Modernism 101, and Optos Books.
Highlights include:
Holiday Bargains: special holiday discounts from 35 to 50% off, good through December 31, on new for 2014 and selected backlist books. In addition, several publishers have extended these discounts to their entire list of offerings on the Online Book Fair
— and Gifts Under $20: even easier on the wallet!
Gift Ideas for Architecture Lovers of all kinds
Gift Ideas for Graphic Design Students...and the practicing graphic designer
Gifts for Kids: books, games, and more
Ideas for Vintage Gifts: our rare and out of print book dealers offer great ideas for collectible design and photography books with a wide range of prices. Discounts from 10 to 15% off are offered through December 31 on many items.
See all Holiday Gift Guide 2014 book selections.
In addition, these publishers and book dealers have extended their special limited-time holiday discounts to all of their titles on the Online Book Fair: Lars Müller, Paintbox Press, Prestel, Modernism 101, and Optos Books.
A unique feature of the Online Book Fair and the Holiday Gift Guide is the variety of enjoyable ways you can find just what you’re looking for—whether it’s a specific subject or a recently published book. Looking for recently published books on graphic design in Europe? Graphic design books for children? Or even books for a designer-foodie? You can find it all at the Designers & Books Online Book Fair.
The Holiday Gift Guide will continue to grow, so keep checking back through December!
Announcements
Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy by John Lobell
Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy
By John Lobell
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: June 2020
Noted Louis I.Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn’s focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy.
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Harriet Pattison
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
By Harriet Pattison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Forthcoming: October 2020
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Harriet Pattison, FASLA, is a distinguished landscape architect. She was Louis Kahn’s romantic partner from 1959 to 1974, and his collaborator on the landscapes of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the F.D.R. Memorial/Four Freedoms Park, New York. She is the mother of their son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn.
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon by Dennis Bernstein and Warren Lehrer
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon
Poems by Dennis Bernstein
Visualizations by Warren Lehrer
Introduction by Steven Heller
Publisher: Paper Crown Press
Published: September 19, 2019
“From a kidnap note for a world held hostage by an A-bomb, to a Holocaust survivor’s tattooed arms where the numbers just don’t add up, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon re-envisions a poetry memoir via a textual kaleidoscope... Bernstein and Lehrer are the Rodgers and Hart of Visual Poetry.” — Bob Holman, poet, poetry activist and chronicler, and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City by Paul Goldberger
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
By Paul Goldberger
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: May 2019
An illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.
Charleston Fancy by Witold Rybczynski
Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
By Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 2019
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America’s first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cultural critic Witold Rybczynski unfolds a series of stories about a group of youthful architects, builders, and developers based in Charleston: a self-taught home builder, an Air Force pilot, a fledgling architect, and a bluegrass mandolin player.
Teaching Graphic Design History by Steven Heller
Teaching Graphic Design History
By Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: June 2019
An examination of the concerted efforts, happy accidents, and key influences of the practice throughout the years, Teaching Graphic Design History is an illuminating resource for students, practitioners, and future teachers of the subject.
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