This 1953 atlas is a triumph of the Bauhaus ideology of clarity put into practice, as well as a high point of American book design and production—from the rosette-inspired endpapers to the incredible ten-color printing throughout (CMYK plus custom spot blues, reds and others).

Dedicated to Joseph L. Eichler: “a truly progressive builder, whose untiring efforts have advanced greatly the concepts of today’s development houses . . .” Authored by a pair of architects whose roles in the development of the postwar modern residential movement cannot be overstated. $100

“(Moholy) clarifies the relationship of modern design, painting, literature, architecture, the cinema, science and industry.” Walter Gropius himself wrote, “I think this will be the leading book in art education.” What more can I add?

George Nelson's lavish attempt to sell modern furniture to middle America. Naturally the book is extremely well-designed and thoughtfully assembled with drop-dead gorgeous photography selected from the archives of Interiors magazine (sponsors of all four volumes in the Interiors Library Series).

Sixty-six issues of Campo Grafico were published between 1933 and 1939 by a loosely confederated group of Italian printers, typographers, designers, and photographers. Subtitled “Magazine of Aesthetic and Graphical Technique‚” the contents were designed and printed during off-hours at various presses throughout Italy and distributed in a similarly free-form fashion.