Chosen Books

Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
2000 books
The Shingle Style Today
Vincent Scully
Shapes for Sounds
Timothy Donaldson
The Shape of Time
George Kubler
The Shape of Things
Vilém Flusser
The Shape of a Pocket
John Berger
The Shadow of the Sun
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Shadow of the Silk Road
Colin Thubron
Seventeenth-Century Women’s Dress Patterns
Susan North et al.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
Avril Hart et al.
740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building
Michael Gross
A Sense of Where You Are
John McPhee
The Sense of Unity
Nader Ardalan et al.
Sense of the City
Mirko Zardini, ed.
A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen
Selected Short Stories
Rabindranath Tagore
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Lawrence Weschler
The Secrets of Vacheron Constantin
Franco Cologni et al.
The Search for Alexander
Robin Lane Fox
The Sculptures of Picasso
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
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