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.
103 books
Enzo Mari—Sixty Paperweights: The Intellectual Work
Alessio Ascari et al.
Design by Choice
Reyner Banham et al.
That Shop in Via Montenapoleone
Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei et al.
The Furniture of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Daniele Baroni
Maarten van Severen
Gert Bekaert
Jean Puiforcat
Françoise de Bonneville
Irma Boom: Biography in Books
Irma Boom
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Ronan Bouroullec
Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932
Christian Brandstätter
La Crisi della Qualità (The Quality Crisis)
Andrea Branzi
Marianne Brandt
Hans Brockhage et al.
Les Années “25”
Yvonne Brunhammer
Perché un libro su Enzo Mari (Why Write a Book on Enzo Mari)
François Burkhardt et al.
Emotionally Durable Design
John Chapman
Russian Furniture: The Golden Age 1780–1840
Antoine Chenevière
Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision, 1925–1950
Robert J. Clark et al.
Richard Sachs: Bicycle Maker
Nick Czerula et al.
Designing for People
Henry Dreyfuss
Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding
Alastair Duncan et al.
Phaidon Design Classics
Editors of Phaidon Press
Design 1935–1965: What Modern Was
Martin Eidelberg, ed.
Bookmarks (Georgetti, Le Mostre)
Marco Ferreri, ed.
Design Activism
Alastair Fuad-Luke
The Magic of a People
Alexander Girard
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