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Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.

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A Treasury of Scandinavian Design	Zahle, Erik	Comments: 0
Sori Yanagi Design	Yanagi, Sori (Munemichi)	0
Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago	Wingler, Hans	0
Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914–1939	Wilk, Christopher	0
Industrial Design, Unikate, Serienerzeugnisse	Wichmann, Hans	0
Bart van der Leck	van Kooten, Toos	0
Russian Decorative Arts 1917-1937	Tolstoy, Vladimir	0
Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object	Thackara, John	0
Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams	Suntory Museum,	0
The Language of Things	Sudjic, Deyan	0
An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century	Sparke, Penny	0
As Long as It’s Pink	Sparke, Penny	0
Scritto di notte (Written at Night)	Sottsass, Ettore	0
The Furniture of Poul Kjaerholm	Sheridan, Michael	0
The Roots of Modern Design	Schaefer, Herwin	0
100 Best Bikes	Sardar, Zahid	0
Art Deco Jewelry	Raulet, Sylvie	0
Memphis: Research, Experiences, Results, Failures and Successes of New Design	Radice, Barbara	0
American Design Ethic	Pulos, Arthur J.	0
An Illustrated History of Furnishing	Praz, Mario	0
Dunbar: Fine Furniture of the 1950s	Piña, Leslie	0
Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius	Pevsner, Nikolaus	0
Mackintosh to Mollino	Ostergard, Derek E.	0
Alexander Girard	Oldham, Todd et al.	0
The Art of Papercraft	Ogawa, Kiroshi	0
Enzo Mari	Mari, Enzo et al.	0
The Design of Everyday Things	Norman, Donald	0
Josef Hoffmann Designs	Noever, Peter	0
Eames Design	Neuhart, John et al.	0
Problems of Design	Nelson, George	0
The Soul of a Tree	Nakashima, George	0
Alec Issigonis	Nahum, Andrew	0
Donald Judd Furniture: Retrospective	Judd, Donald et al.	0
Jean Royère	Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris,	0
Designing Interactions	Moggridge, Bill	0
Sentinel	Mead, Syd	0
The Survival of the Bark Canoe	McPhee, John	0
Cradle to Cradle	McDonough, William et al.	0
The Box	Levinson, Marc	0
Designer: No Name	Lenskog, Torbjörn	0
Enfolding Life (生活與承載)	Lau, Freeman	0
A Century of Automotive Style	Lamm, Michael et al.	0
The Shape of Time	Kubler, George	0
Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000	Kirkham, Pat	0
Charles and Ray Eames	Kirkham, Pat	0
Donald Judd: Raume Spaces	Judd, Donald et al.	0
Kelly	Johnson, Clarence L. "Kelly"	0
Furniture from British India and Ceylon	Jaffer, Amin	0
Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft	Jackson, Paul A.	0
Katachi	Iwamiya, Takeji	0
In Praise of Slowness	Honoré, Carl	0
Design Since 1945	Hiesinger, Kathryn	0
Toothpicks and Logos	Heskett, John	0
Designing Design	Hara, Kenya	2
The Magic of a People	Girard, Alexander	0
Super Normal	Fukasawa, Naoto et al.	0
Design Activism	Fuad-Luke, Alastair	0
Bookmarks (Georgetti, Le Mostre)	Ferreri, Marco	0
Design 1935–1965: What Modern Was	Eidelberg, Martin	0
Phaidon Design Classics	Editors of Phaidon Press,	0
Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding	Duncan, Alastair et al.	0
Designing for People	Dreyfuss, Henry	1
Eureka!	de Bono, Edward	0
One Gear	Cossu, Matteo	0
Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision, 1925–1950	Clark, Robert J.	0
Russian Furniture: The Golden Age 1780–1840	Chenevière, Antoine	0
Emotionally Durable Design	Chapman, Jonathan	0
Jean-Michel Frank	Chanaux, Adolphe et al.	0
The Afterlife of Emerson Tang	Champa, Paula	0
By Design	Caplan, Ralph	1
Perché un libro su Enzo Mari (Why Write a Book on Enzo Mari)	Burkhardt, François et al.	0
Les Années “25”	Brunhammer, Yvonne	0
Eliot Noyes	Bruce, Gordon	0
Marianne Brandt	Brockhage, Hans et al.	0
La Crisi della Qualità (The Quality Crisis)	Branzi, Andrea	0
Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932	Brandstätter, Christian	0
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec	Bouroullec, Ronan et al.	0
Jean Puiforcat	Bonneville, Françoise de	0
Hans J. Wegner	Bernsen, Jens	0
Maarten van Severen	Bekaert, Gert	0
The Furniture of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld	Baroni, Daniele	0
That Shop in Via Montenapoleone	Barbiellini Amidei, Gaspare et al.	0
Enzo Mari—Sixty Paperweights: The Intellectual Work	Ascari, Alessio et al.	0
Italy: The New Domestic Landscape	Ambasz, Emilio	0
The World as Design	Aicher, Otl	0
Eileen Gray	Adam, Peter	0