Invited designers (including architects, fashion designers, graphic designers, interior designers, landscape architects, product designers, urban designers, and other design professionals) have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011. See complete Notable Design Books list
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8 books
Atlas
Gerard Richter
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Balenciaga and Spain
Hamish Bowles $65.00
On Cynthia Rowley’s Book List
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Katie Ridder: Rooms
Heather MacIsaac $50.00
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Kissing Architecture
Sylvia Lavin $16.95
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Less and More
Keiko Ueki-Polet et al.
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Reveal: Studio Gang Architects
Jeanne Gang $45.00
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Richard Prince: American Prayer
Robert Rubin, ed. $65.00
On Deborah Berke’s Book List
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
Pat Kirkham et al. $75.00
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Best-Selling Design Books at Van Alen Books, New York

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Building Seagram
Phyllis Lambert
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Clog 6: Brutalism
Kyle May et al., eds.
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Project Journal Issue 1
Project
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Matteo Thun
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Mark Stevens
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Franco Clivio
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British Textiles: 1700 to the Present
Linda Parry
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Katsuji Wakisaka
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Kokyo Hatanaka
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Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro
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Stephen Burrows
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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
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Contributors Who Chose...

Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas
On 8 lists
Jeanne Gang
Architect; United States
Mohsen Mostafavi
Designer; Educator; United States
Galia Solomonoff
Architect; United States
Adam Tihany
Architect, Interior Designer, Product/Industrial Designer; United States
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