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| African Metropolitan Architecture | Adjaye, David | Rizzoli International Publications | $100.00 |
| A House for an Art Collector | Adjaye, David | Rizzoli International Publications | $50.00 |
| Cecil Beaton | Albrecht, Donald | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Voiture Minimum | Amado Lorenzo, Antonio | The MIT Press | $49.95 |
| Spatial Agency | Awan, Nishat et al. | Routledge | $44.95 |
| Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture | Balmori, Diana et al. | The Monacelli Press | $50.00 |
| Rising Currents | Bergdoll, Barry | The Museum of Modern Art | $24.95 |
| Missed Connections | Blackall, Sophie | Workman | $13.95 |
| People | Blexbolex, | Enchanted Lion Books | $19.95 |
| Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty | Bolton, Andrew | Yale University Press | $50.00 |
| Design*Sponge at Home | Bonney, Grace | Artisan | $35.00 |
| TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design | Bos, Ben | Unit Editions | $55.00 |
| How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive | Boucher, Christopher | Melville House | $15.00 |
| Balenciaga and Spain | Bowles, Hamish | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey | Brook, Tony et al. | Unit Editions | $27.00 |
| 344 Questions | Bucher, Stefan | New Riders Press | $11.99 |
| Living in the Endless City | Burdett, Ricky et al. | Phaidon Press | $69.95 |
| Typography for Lawyers | Butterick, Matthew | Jones McClure Publishing | $25.00 |
| Rethinking Design and Interiors | Caan, Shashi | Laurence King Publishing | $29.95 |
| Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...? | Cappellieri, Alba | Electa | |
| New York Bikes | Castagnetti, Michele | Self Published | $19.99 |
| Identify | Chermayeff, Ivan et al. | Print Publishing | $45.00 |
| Architecture in Uniform | Cohen, Jean-Louis | Yale University Press | $50.00 |
| Usefulness in Small Things | Colin, Kim et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $29.95 |
| 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists | Danchev, Alex | Penguin | $20.99 |
| High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky | David, Joshua et al. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $29.95 |
| Spacesuit | de Monchaux, Nicholas | The MIT Press | $34.95 |
| Seven Books Grey | Dean, Tacita | Steidl | $98.00 |
| Flying Without a Net | DeLong, Thomas J. | Harvard Business Review Press | $29.95 |
| Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens | Delsaux, Cédric | Editions Xavier Barral | $75.00 |
| Rebels in Paradise | Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter | Henry Holt and Company | $32,50 |
| Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape | El-Dahdah, Farès et al. | Actar | $49.95 |
| The Latin American Photobook | Fernández, Horacio et al. | Aperture | $52.00 |
| Bossypants | Fey, Tina | Little, Brown and Co. | |
| The Architectural Detail | Ford, Edward R. | Princeton Architectural Press | $40.00 |
| Bals | Foulkes, Nicholas | Assouline | $175.00 |
| Reveal: Studio Gang Architects | Gang, Jeanne | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
| Bob Gill, so far. | Gill, Bob | Laurence King Publishing | $50.00 |
| Collected | Gladwell, Malcolm et al. | Little, Brown and Co. | $80.00 |
| Triumph of the City | Glaeser, Edward | Penguin | $29.95 |
| Gerhard Richter: Panorama | Godfrey, Mark et al. | Tate Gallery Publishing | |
| Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances | Gordon, Beverly | Thames & Hudson | $60.00 |
| Tomorrow’s Houses | Gorlin, Alexander et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| By the City/For the City | Guiney, Anne et al. | Institute for Urban Design | $35.00 |
| Why We Broke Up | Handler, Daniel et al. | Little, Brown and Co. | $19.99 |
| Menu Design in America | Heller, Steven et al. | TASCHEN | $59.99 |
| New York: The Story of a Great City | Henry, Sarah | André Deutsch | $39.95 |
| Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture | Hill, John | W. W. Norton | $29.95 |
| Pamphlet Architecture 11–20 | Holl, Steven | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
| Symbol | Hyland, Angus et al. | Laurence King Publishing | $40.00 |
| Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | Immordino Vreeland, Lisa | Abrams | $55.00 |
| Steve Jobs | Isaacson, Walter | Simon & Schuster | $35.00 |
| The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition | Jacobs, Jane | Random House/Modern Library | $23.00 |
| California Design 1930–1965 | Kaplan, Wendy | The MIT Press | $60.00 |
| KieranTimberlake: Inquiry | Kieran, Stephen et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $55.00 |
| Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design | Kirkham, Pat et al. | Laurence King Publishing | $75.00 |
| Visual Storytelling | Klanten, Robert et al. | Gestalten | $68.00 |
| Project Japan | Koolhaas, Rem et al. | TASCHEN | $59.99 |
| Beauty Is in the Street | Kugelberg, Johan et al. | Four Corners Books; distributed by D.A.P. | $40.00 |
| Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner | Kuijpers, Els | nai010 Publishers | $38.35 |
| Kissing Architecture | Lavin, Sylvia | Princeton University Press | $16.95 |
| The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living | Brostrom, Caitlin Lempres et al. | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible | Lovell, Sophie | Phaidon Press | $95.00 |
| Julius Shulman, Los Angeles | Lubell, Sam et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $60.00 |
| Graphic Design: Now in Production | Lupton, Ellen et al. | Walker Art Center; distributed by D.A.P. | |
| Katie Ridder: Rooms | MacIsaac, Heather | Abrams | $50.00 |
| Maharam Agenda | Maharam, Michael | Lars Müller Publishers | $65.00 |
| The Ruins of Detroit | Marchand, Yves et al. | Steidl | $125.00 |
| Wirrwarr | Mayer H., Jürgen et al. | Hatje Cantz | $300.00 |
| Combinatory Urbanism | Mayne, Thom | Stray Dog Cafe | $39.95 |
| Believing Is Seeing | Morris, Errol | Penguin | $40.00 |
| To Make a World | Nemerov, Alexander | Yale University Press | $45.00 |
| Floating Worlds | Neumeyer, Peter F. | Pomegranate Press | $35.00 |
| Ready to Print | Nickel, Kristina | Gestalten | $78.00 |
| OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life) | Nosigner, | Media Factory | ¥ 1,000 ($12.88) |
| Alexander Girard | Oldham, Todd et al. | AMMO Books | $200 |
| Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life | Oldham, Todd et al. | AMMO Books | $29.95 |
| A Taxonomy of Office Chairs | Olivares, Jonathan | Phaidon Press | $39.95 |
| The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture | Pallasmaa, Juhani | John Wiley & Sons | $45.00 |
| Redheaded Peckerwood | Patterson, Christian | MACK | $65.00 |
| Food Rules | Pollan, Michael et al. | Penguin | |
| Radioactive | Redniss, Lauren | HarperCollins | $29.99 |
| Atlas | Richter, Gerhard | Walther König Verlag | |
| Star Wars: The Blueprints | Rinzler, J. W. | Epic Ink | $500.00 |
| Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets | Rjeily, Rana Abou | Mark Batty Publisher | $34.95 |
| And I Shall Have Some Peace There | Roach, Margaret | Grand Central Publishing | $25.99 |
| Richard Prince: American Prayer | Rubin, Robert | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| The Agile City | Russell, James | Island Press | $35.00 |
| Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention | Ryan, Zoë | Yale University Press | $60.00 |
| Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material | Sagmeister, Stefan et al. | Abrams | $40.00 |
| Maps | Scher, Paula | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul | Schultz, Howard et al. | Rodale | $25.99 |
| Urban Design Since 1945 | Shane, David Grahame | John Wiley & Sons | $45.00 |
| Helvetica and the New York City Subway System | Shaw, Paul | The MIT Press | $39.95 |
| Design with the Other 90%: Cities | Smith, Cynthia | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum | $29.95 |
| Edward Durell Stone | Stone, Hicks | Rizzoli International Publications | $85.00 |
| The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch | Thwaites, Thomas | Princeton Architectural Press | $19.95 |
| Less and More | Ueki-Polet, Keiko et al. | Gestalten | |
| Hussein Chalayan | Violette, Robert et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $85.00 |
| Gerrit Rietveld | van Zijl, Ida | Phaidon Press | $75.00 |
| Designing for Emotion | Walter, Aarron | A Book Apart | $18.00 |
| Toward a New Interior | Weinthal, Lois | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
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Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister
Now is Better
By Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: October 2023
Combining art, design, history, and quantitative analysis, transforms data sets into stunning artworks that underscore his positive view of human progress, inspiring us to think about the future with much-needed hope.
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022
Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
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Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman
Love Letter to a Garden
By Debbie Millman
Contributions by Roxane Gay
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: April 15, 2025
From the award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, Debbie Millman, this book tells the visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. Spread throughout are simple recipes using the garden’s ingredients from Millman’s wife, best-selling author Roxane Gay.
Milton Glaser: POP by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Milton Glaser: POP
By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023
This collection of work from graphci design legend Milton Glaser’s Pop period features hundreds of examples of the designer’s work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By Alexandra Lange
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: June 2022
Chronicles postwar architects’ and merchants’ invention of the shopping mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Publishers Weekly writes, “Contending that malls answer ‘the basic human need’ of bringing people together, influential design critic Lange advocates for retrofitting abandoned shopping centers into college campuses, senior housing, and ‘ethnocentric marketplaces’ catering to immigrant communities. Lucid and well researched, this is an insightful study of an overlooked and undervalued architectural form.”
Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition) by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)
By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023
This facsimile edition of Die Fläche, recreates every page of the formative design periodical in full color and at original size, accompanied by essays that contextualize the work, highlighting contributions by pathbreaking women, innovative lettering artists, and key practitioners of the new “surface art,” including Rudolf von Larisch, Alfred Roller, and Wiener Werkstätte founders Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann.
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