These 20 books on British architecture and design have been recommended by our designers, commentators, featured publishers, and booksellers.

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton et al.
Architecture in Britain 1530–1830
John Summerson
The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens
A.S.G. Butler
Barnbrook Bible
Jonathan Barnbrook
British Design from 1948
Christopher Breward
British Textiles: 1700 to the Present
Linda Parry
Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties
Rick Poynor, ed.
The Design Work of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
The English Country House
Mary Miers, et al.
Everything but the Walls
Jasper Morrison
Georgian London
John Summerson
Nigel Coates: The City in Motion
Rick Poynor
Norman Foster and the British Museum
Norman Foster
Sir John Soane: The Architect as Collector, 1753-1837
Peter Thornton
Syrie Maugham: Staging the Glamorous Interior
Pauline C. Metcalf
Twenty-one Designers for Twenty-first Century Britain
Gareth Williams
True British: Alice Temperley
Alice Temperley
Vaughan Oliver: Visceral Pleasures
Rick Poynor
A Visual Inventory
John Pawson
Zaha Hadid: Complete Works
Zaha Hadid
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