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.
76 books
Jansen: Decoration
Jean Leveque
Jean Royère
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
John Fowler: Prince of Decorators
Martin Wood
La Maison de Verre: Pierre Chareau’s Modernist Masterwork
Dominique Vellay
La Villa Kérylos
Vian des Rives
Legendary Decorators of the Twentieth Century
Mark Hampton
Les Décorateurs des années 40
Bruno Foucart et al.
Les Réussites de la Décoration Française 1950–1960
Thomas Kernan
Le Style Louis XVI
Philippe Julian
Maarten van Severen
Gert Bekaert
Mark Hampton on Decorating
Mark Hampton
Moderne: Fashioning the French
Sarah Schleuning
Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914–1939
Christopher Wilk, ed.
Neoclassicism in the North
Håkan Groth
New York Interior Design, 1935–1985: Inventors of Tradition
Judith Gura
Nouvelles Réussites de la Décoration Française, 1960-1966
Thomas Kernan
Perché un libro su Enzo Mari (Why Write a Book on Enzo Mari)
François Burkhardt et al.
Sir John Soane: The Architect as Collector, 1753-1837
Peter Thornton et al.
The Splendor of France
Roberto Schezen
Syrie Maugham: Staging the Glamorous Interior
Pauline C. Metcalf
A Treasury of Scandinavian Design
Erik Zahle, ed.
Visite Privée
François Halard
Vogue’s Book of Houses, Gardens, People
Valentine Lawford
What If...?: The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell
Chee Pearlman, ed. et al.
What Is Modern Design?
Edgar Kaufmann Jr.
Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932
Christian Brandstätter
Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000
Pat Kirkham, ed.
The World of Gloria Vanderbilt
Wendy Goodman et al.