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.

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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 On list of Books by Todd Oldham Add to My Reading List	Anatomy for Interior Designers Francis de N. Schroeder On Stanley Abercrombie’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Apartments for the Affluent Alpern Andrew On Alexa Hampton’s Book List On Peter Pennoyer’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Authentic Décor: The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 Peter Thornton On Witold Rybczynski’s Book List On Susan Weber’s Book List On Jeffrey Bilhuber’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Axel Vervoordt Meredith Etherington-Smith On Dominique Browning’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Axel Vervoordt: Timeless Interiors Armelle Baron On David Easton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Behind the Picture Window Bernard Rudofsky On Stanley Abercrombie’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Big Book of Chic Miles Redd On Matteo Thun’s Book List Add to My Reading List
Billy Baldwin Decorates Billy Baldwin On Dominique Browning’s Book List On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Billy Baldwin Remembers Billy Baldwin On Ralph Rucci’s Book List On Dominique Browning’s Book List On Ernest de la Torre’s Book List On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Bloomingdale’s Book of Home Decorating Barbara D’Arcy On Penny Drue Baird’s Book List Add to My Reading List	By Design Ralph Caplan On Nancye Green’s Book List On Jennifer Morla’s Book List On Jeffrey Bernett’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Classic Style Judith Miller On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	David Adler: The Architect and His Work Richard Pratt On David Easton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	David Hicks on Decoration—with Fabrics David Hicks On Dominique Browning’s Book List Add to My Reading List	David Hicks: A Life of Design Ashley Hicks On Jonathan Adler’s Book List Add to My Reading List
The Decoration of Houses Edith Wharton et al. On William Georgis’s Book List On Dominique Browning’s Book List On David Easton’s Book List On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today Penny Sparke et al. On Susan Weber’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Donald Judd Furniture: Retrospective Museum Boymans-van Beuningen On Vincent Van Duysen’s Book List On Michael Maharam’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Dunbar: Fine Furniture of the 1950s Leslie Piña On David Easton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Eileen Gray Peter Adam On Jeanne Gang’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration Penny Sparke On Susan Weber’s Book List On Dominique Browning’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The English House Hermann Muthesius On Amanda Dameron’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes Fernand David et al. On Ernest de la Torre’s Book List Add to My Reading List
The Finest Rooms Katherine Tweed On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Finest Rooms in America Thomas Jayne On Susan Weber’s Book List On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Finest Rooms in France French House & Garden On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Form & Decoration: Innovation in the Decorative Arts, 1470–1870 Peter Thornton On Susan Weber’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Furniture from British India and Ceylon Amin Jaffer On David Easton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Furniture of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Daniele Baroni On Michael Maharam’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Great Houses of England and Wales Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd et al. On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Hans J. Wegner Jens Bernsen On Michael Maharam’s Book List Add to My Reading List
High-tech Joan Kron et al. On Mels Crouwel’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The House in My Head Dorothy Rodgers On Dominique Browning’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The House of Life Mario Praz On Stanley Abercrombie’s Book List Add to My Reading List	An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration: From Pompeii to Art Nouveau Mario Praz On Susan Weber’s Book List Add to My Reading List	In House Derry Moore et al. On Jeffrey Bilhuber’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Italian Splendor Jack Basehart On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Italy: The New Domestic Landscape Emilio Ambasz, ed. On R. Craig Miller’s Book List On James Biber’s Book List On list of Books by Emilio Ambasz On Marco Romanelli’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Jansen James Archer Abbott On Susan Weber’s Book List Add to My Reading List

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Understanding Understanding: New from Richard Saul Wurman

Understanding Understanding
by Richard Saul Wurman
Publisher: Richard Saul Wurman and Jack Dangermond
Published July 30, 2017

From the author of Information Architecture, who says about his newest book: “This is a book for people to dip into, as they would walk in and out of the room of a dinner party and embrace their interests. . . Before the rules on how to organize information, before you learn grammar, before you work hard at expanding your vocabulary and go through the exercises of parallel meanings of things as using a Thesaurus and as one writes papers in class, before any learning one must understand.”

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The Hard Life by Jasper Morrison

The Hard Life
by Jasper Morrison
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Published in US: May 22, 2017

Photographs taken by designer Jasper Morrison of objects in the collection of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon, Portugal. “The objects photographed and described may be appreciated both for their beauty and for the example they set of design at its purest. The Hard Life is a continuation of Morrison’s celebration of the ordinary and offers a new perspective on his design philosophy.”

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Paula Scher: Works - Order from Unit Editions

Paula Scher: Works
Editors: Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy
Design: Spin
Publisher: Unit Editions
Published April 2017

New book covering the career of of master designer Paula Scher, called “the most influential woman graphic designer on the planet.” (Ellen Lupton), This definitive, chronological visual record spans Paula’s early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS and Atlantic records; the launch of her first studio, Koppel & Scher; and her 25-year engagement with Pentagram.

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Type Tells Tales: New from Steven Heller and Gail Anderson

Type Tells Tales
by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published May 30, 2017

Reveals how type can become both content and illustration, as letters take the form of people, animals, cars, or planes. With numerous illustrations by F. T. Marinetti, Bruno Munari, and Francis Picabia, among others, as well as by contemporary designers such as Richard Eckersley, John Hendrix, Maira Kalman, and Corita Kent.

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The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design: New from Steven Heller and Greg D’Onofrio

The Moderns
by Steven Heller and Greg D’Onofrio
Publisher: Abrams
Published September 19, 2017

Featuring more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package designs; posters; and other projects created the visual aesthetics of postwar modernity in America. Some were émigrés from Europe; others were homegrown; all were intoxicated by elemental typography, primary colors, photography, and geometric or biomorphic forms. Some are well-known, others are honored in this volume for the first time, and together they comprised a movement that changed our design world.