Rizzoli Bookstore

For more than 40 years, Rizzoli Bookstore has been an unsurpassed source for superb books on visual topics, foreign language books and periodicals, and an eclectic assortment of music.

31 West 57th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
New York, NY 10019
800.522.6657 (Toll Free)
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Best-Selling Design Books (April)

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Shelton, Mindel & Associates Add to My Reading List

Photography by Michael Moran
Essay by Joseph Giovannini

Winners of over thirty AIA awards and recipients of the 2011 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design, Peter L. Shelton and Lee F. Mindel have had a remarkable career crafting intricate yet minimal spaces infused with serenity and intelligence.

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Albert Speer Add to My Reading List

Léon Krier
Preface by Robert A. M. Stern

Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler’s architect of choice, happens to be responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times.

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Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman Add to My Reading List

Brian Lutz

Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman is the first monograph to focus exclusively on the furniture designs of the celebrated American modernist master.

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Weaponized Architecture Add to My Reading List

Leopold Lambert

Weaponized Architecture is an examination of the inherent instrumentalization of architecture as a political weapon.

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47th Publication Design Annual Add to My Reading List

Society of Publication Designers

Judged by a worldwide panel of top designers, the 47th edition of Rockport’s best-selling SPD annuals celebrates the journalists, editorial directors, photographers, and other talented individuals who brought events of the year 2011 to our doorsteps and computer screens.

Notable and Quotable

Le Corbusier Plans: From Idea to the Project

Fondation Le Corbusier

Including 16 DVD volumes in four boxes, this is the most definitive collection of Le Corbusier's 35,000 plans, diagrams, and drawings by the master architect yet published. Each entry is archived in high-resolution digital format, and each of Le Corbusier’s 350 projects are documented with written commentary by leading scholars. For information on purchasing this collection, please call us at 212.759.2424.

The Modern Architecture Game

Next Architecture

Test your knowledge of the greatest architects, their famous buildings and their legendary quotes by answering general questions about architecture and popular culture. The second edition of the new Trivia board game designed by Next Architecture promises to be a party hit amongst architecture lovers as they ponder which bridge is the highest in France.

Staff Recommendations

Neutra: Complete Works Add to My Reading List

Barbara Mac Lamprecht
Peter Goessel

Beautifully displayed within this unique, aesthetically appropriate, wood paneled compendium is a chronologically arranged catalogue of Richard Neutra’s drafts and photographed works. More

Piranesi: The Complete Etchings Add to My Reading List

Luigi Ficacci

Perhaps most lauded for his etchings of fantastical prison-scapes, Piranesi’s work accurately evokes the formidable impact of human innovation and mechanization that his etchings have taken on a new relevance, in our ethos of ever developing surveillance and technological domination. More

About Graphic Design Add to My Reading List

Richard Hollis

Compiled and designed by Richard Hollis himself, About Graphic Design catalogues four decades of the designer’s educational texts, lecture notes, personal musings and academic essays, all punctuated with an abundance of thumbnail image references. More

The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design Add to My Reading List

Editors of Phaidon Press

Extraordinarily comprehensive in its breadth of content, the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design features 500 loose sheets displaying typefaces, various print media-related graphic design, advertisements, corporate design, information graphics and more. More

The Elements of Style: An Encyclopedia of Domestic Architectural Detail Add to My Reading List

Stephen Calloway Editor
Elizabeth Cromley Editor
Alan Powers Editor

The Elements of Style is a treasury of extravagantly detailed explanations and illustrations of domestic architectural detail from 1485 to the present day. Arranged chronologically, with color-coding that corresponds to each featured detail, the collection is especially useful as a quick reference of architectural style and history. Any student, professional, or enthusiast of architecture will take great enjoyment in owning this unique volume. More