Notable Design Books of 2013
Also see Notable Books: Reviews, Notable Design Books of 2012 and Notable Design Books of 2011.
| Wunderkammer | Williams, Tod et al. | Yale University Press | $29.00 |
| Visions of Seaside | Thadani, Dhiru A. et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $75.00 |
| Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books of Ed Ruscha | Brouws, Jeff et al. | The MIT Press | $39.95 |
| Type Only | Sinclair, Mark et al. | Unit Editions | $68.00 |
| Tom Dixon: Dixonary | Dixon, Tom | Violette Editions | $49.95 |
| Threads of Silk and Gold | McDermott, Hiroko T. et al. | Ashmolean Museum | $40.00 |
| Theater of Architecture | Hardy, Hugh | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| The Library | Campbell, James W. P. et al. | The University of Chicago Press | $75.00 |
| Synesthetic Design | Haverkamp, Michael | Birkhäuser | $69.95 |
| Swiss Made | Breiding, R. James | Profile Books | |
| The Sustainable Fashion Handbook | Black, Sandy | Thames & Hudson | $55.00 |
| Staircases | Tusquets Blanca, Oscar | The Vendome Press | $75.00 |
| Shiro Kuramata | Sudjic, Deyan et al. | Phaidon Press | $150.00 |
| Shadow Type | Heller, Steven et al. | Princeton Architectural Press | $55.00 |
| Printer’s Devil | Loxley, Simon et al. | David R. Godine | $45.00 |
| The Pinecone | Uglow, Jenny | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $28.00 |
| PIN-UP Interviews | PIN-UP, et al. | powerHouse Books | $29.95 |
| Paradise Planned | Stern, Robert A. M. et al. | The Monacelli Press | $95.00 |
| Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 | Wit, Wim de et al. | Getty Research Institute | $59.95 |
| Out There | Brito, Maria Gabriela | Pointed Leaf Press | $60.00 |
| 100 Years of Architectural Drawing | Bingham, Neil | Laurence King Publishing | $50.00 |
| A New Sculpturalism | Mount, Christopher et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Never Built Los Angeles | Lubell, Sam et al. | Metropolis Books | $55.00 |
| The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon | Dalley, Stephanie | Oxford University Press | $34.95 |
| MVRDV Buildings | MVRDV, et al. | nai010 Publishers | $95.00 |
| Multiple Signatures | Rock, Michael | Rizzoli International Publications | $35.00 |
| The Most Beautiful Opera Houses in the World | de Laubier, Guillaume et al. | Abrams | $60.00 |
| Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art | Adam, Jürgen et al. | ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers | $115.00 |
| The Metropolitan Revolution | Katz, Bruce et al. | Brookings Institution Press | $29.95 |
| Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration | Buatta, Mario et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $75.00 |
| Mapping Manhattan | Cooper, Becky et al. | Abrams | $19.95 |
| Luxurious Minimalism | von der Schulenburg, Fritz | Rizzoli International Publications | $60.00 |
| Lolita—The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design | Bertram, John et al. | Print Publishing | $18.00 |
| Lina Bo Bardi | Lima, Zeuler Rocha Mello de Almeida et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| The Light Pavilion | Kumpusch, Christoph a. | Lars Müller Publishers | $15.00 |
| Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes | Cohen, Jean-Louis et al. | The Museum of Modern Art | $75.00 |
| Kamisaka Sekka | Trinh, Khanh et al. | Prestel Publishing | $50.00 |
| James Turrell: A Retrospective | Govan, Michael et al. | Prestel Publishing | $75.00 |
| James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist | Lawrence, Amanda Reeser | Yale University Press | $45.00 |
| It’s Modern: The Eye and Visual Influence of Alexander Liberman | Churchward, Charles | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Italian Liberty Style | De Guttry, Irene et al. | 24 Ore Cultura | $45.00 |
| Irma Boom: The Architecture of the Book | Boom, Irma et al. | Lecturis | $45.50 |
| The Invention of Craft | Adamson, Glenn | Bloomsbury | $29.95 |
| Interviewing Users | Portigal, Steve | Rosenfeld Media | $39.00 |
| The Images of Architects | Olgiati, Valerio | Quart Architektur | |
| How Architecture Works | Rybczynski, Witold | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $27.00 |
| The Houses of Louis Kahn | Marcus, George H. et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| Hippie Chic | Whitley, Lauren | MFA Publications | $35.00 |
| Henri Labrouste | Bélier, Corinne et al. | The Museum of Modern Art | $55.00 |
| Hello World | Rawsthorn, Alice | Hamish Hamilton | $30.00 |
| Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965 | Tigerman, Bobbye | The MIT Press | $34.95 |
| Hand-Drying in America | Katchor, Ben | Random House | $29.95 |
| Hall of Femmes: Tomoko Miho | Bouabana, Samira et al. | Hall of Femmes/Oyster Press | $19.65 |
| Hall of Femmes: Lella Vignelli | Bouabana, Samira et al. | Hall of Femmes/Oyster Press | $19.65 |
| Graphic Icons | Clifford, John | Peachpit Press | $31.99 |
| Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design | Kidd, Chip | Workman | $17.95 |
| Formica Forever | Lange, Alexandra et al. | Metropolis Books | $39.95 |
| Fashion Design, Referenced | Kennedy, Alicia et al. | Rockport Publishers | $41.25 |
| Experiments with Life Itself | González de Canales, Francisco | Actar | $39.95 |
| Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas | Wood, Denis | Siglio | $32.00 |
| Everything Loose Will Land | Lavin, Sylvia et al. | Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg | |
| Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty | Kirkham, Pat et al. | Chronicle Books | $50.00 |
| Encounters 2 | Pallasmaa, Juhani et al. | Rakennustieto | |
| Emilio Pucci | Friedman, Vanessa et al. | TASCHEN | $69.99 |
| Eileen Gray: Objects and Furniture Design | Espegel, Carmen et al. | Ediciones Polígrafa | $30.00 |
| Discovering Architecture | Jodidio, Philip et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $45.00 |
| Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images | Dimendberg, Edward | The University of Chicago Press | $65.00 |
| Deventer | Stadler, Matthew et al. | nai010 Publishers | |
| Design Forward | Esslinger, Hartmut | ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers | $40.00 |
| The Design Book: 1000 New Designs for the Home and Where to Find Them | Hudson, Jennifer | Laurence King Publishing | $30.00 |
| Dekho | Codesign, et al. | Codesign | $42.00 |
| D&AD: 50 | Stanley, Ron | TASCHEN | $59.99 |
| Culture:City | Wang, Wilfried | Lars Müller Publishers | $55.00 |
| Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Technology | Hammann, Ralph | DOM Publishers | $99.95 |
| Creative Confidence | Kelley, Tom et al. | Crown | $29.00 |
| A Country of Cities | Chakrabarti, Vishaan | Metropolis Books | $29.95 |
| Cosmos of Light | Plummer, Henry | Indiana University Press | $39.00 |
| City of Ambition | Williams, Mason B. | W. W. Norton | $29.95 |
| Carlo Scarpa: Venini, 1932–1947 | Barovier, Marino | Rizzoli International Publications | $95.00 |
| Building Seagram | Lambert, Phyllis et al. | Yale University Press | $65.00 |
| Architecture on the Carpet | Vale, Brenda et al. | Thames & Hudson | $27.95 |
| Architecture of Santiniketan | Das, Samit | Niyogi Books | |
| Architectural Guide Japan | Bognar, Botond | DOM Publishers | $50.00 |
| Álvaro Siza: Complete Works 1952–2013 | Jodidio, Philip | TASCHEN | $150.00 |
| All the Buildings in New York *That I’ve Drawn So Far | Hancock, James Gulliver | Rizzoli International Publications | $19.95 |
| Albert Speer | Krier, Léon et al. | The Monacelli Press | $75.00 |
| The Afterlife of Emerson Tang | Champa, Paula | Houghton Mifflin | $26.00 |
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Publisher: Harper Design
Published: February 22, 2022
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Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023
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Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: June 2022
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By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023
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