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Katachi
Takeji Iwamiya
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Donald Judd: Raume Spaces
Donald Judd et al.
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The Afterlife of Emerson Tang
Paula Champa
On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2013 list
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Alec Issigonis
Andrew Nahum
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Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham et al.
On Jonathan Adler’s Book List
On Wendy Goodman’s Notable Books of 2011 list
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American Design Ethic
Arthur J. Pulos
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Art Deco Jewelry
Sylvie Raulet
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Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding
Alastair Duncan et al.
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As Long as It’s Pink
Penny Sparke
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Bart van der Leck
Toos van Kooten
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Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago
Hans Wingler
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Bookmarks (Georgetti, Le Mostre)
Marco Ferreri, ed.
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The Box
Marc Levinson
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By Design
Ralph Caplan
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A Century of Automotive Style
Michael Lamm et al.
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Charles and Ray Eames
Pat Kirkham
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Cradle to Cradle
William McDonough et al.
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Design Activism
Alastair Fuad-Luke
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Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object
John Thackara
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Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision, 1925–1950
Robert J. Clark et al.
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Design 1935–1965: What Modern Was
Martin Eidelberg, ed.
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The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman
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Design Since 1945
Kathryn Hiesinger, ed.
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Designer: No Name
Torbjörn Lenskog
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Designing Design
Kenya Hara
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Designing for People
Henry Dreyfuss
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Designing Interactions
Bill Moggridge
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Donald Judd Furniture: Retrospective
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen
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Dunbar: Fine Furniture of the 1950s
Leslie Piña
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Eames Design
John Neuhart et al.
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Eileen Gray
Peter Adam
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Eliot Noyes
Gordon Bruce
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Emotionally Durable Design
John Chapman
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Enfolding Life (生活與承載)
Freeman Lau
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Enzo Mari
Hans Ulrich Obrist et al.
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Enzo Mari—Sixty Paperweights: The Intellectual Work
Alessio Ascari et al.
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Eureka!
Edward de Bono
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Furniture from British India and Ceylon
Amin Jaffer
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The Furniture of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Daniele Baroni
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The Furniture of Poul Kjaerholm
Michael Sheridan et al.
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