Book Nook: 12 Art And Design Books You’ll Love This Winter

Woods + Dangaran: Architecture and Interiors by Brett Woods and Joe Dangaran | Rizzoli
A masterful combination of classically modernist inspiration with comfortable California twenty-first-century living.

Fashioning Design: Lee Broom by Becky Sunshine | Rizzoli
The first illustrated monograph presenting the work of British designer Lee Broom, founder of the eponymous brand and celebrated for his stylish, contemporary take on classic design products.

Mid-Century Modern Furniture by Dominic Bradbury | Thames & Hudson
The appetite for midcentury modern remains as strong as ever, both for classic designs—many still in production since they were launched—and for rare, hard-to-find pieces from lesser-known designers. While numerous books surveying midcentury modern style have appeared over the years, this volume is specifically for the increasing collector’s market in midcentury modern design, focusing on each piece of furniture as an object of formal invention, manufacturing intelligence, and material innovation.

Workshop/APD Homes: Architecture, Interiors, and the Spaces Between by Andrew Kotchen + Matt Berman | Rizzoli
The first book from award-winning interior design and architecture firm Workshop/APD with projects ranging from sleek Manhattan apartments to Shingle Style getaways.

Deep Color: The Shades That Shape Our Souls by Keith Recker | Schiffer
Color is a powerful force in our lives. It is a major influence in visual and verbal communication and on the decisions we make every day. Deep Color unpacks all the shades of the rainbow (plus black, white, and pink) with little-known facts, stunning visuals, and a critical perspective on color and the nonverbal meanings it carries.

Wonderful Wallcoverings by Laura May Todd | Lannoo Publishers
Wallcovering is not what it used to be. Forget your preconceptions about dated rolls of dusty wallpaper, because that is a thing of the past. Today’s wallcoverings are artful textiles made of inventive materials and wrought by skilled craftsmanship. In the pages of this book, the author has compiled a wealth of interiors with creative wallcoverings from some of the most interesting designers worldwide.

Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects by Jonathan Boelkins and Peter MacKeith | PA Press
Radical Practice celebrates the extraordinary, award-winning designs of Marlon Blackwell Architects, an Arkansas-based firm with a focus on public and civic projects that are located outside of the established centers of architectural culture.

Jacques Grange: Recent Work by Pierre Passebon | Flammarion
Over the course of his fifty-year career, Jacques Grange has designed homes for the world’s most respected collectors, artists, designers, and tastemakers. This essential volume illustrates Grange’s wide-ranging inspiration and exquisite taste through more than thirty new residential projects in Europe and the United States.

Living in the Forest | Phaidon
Take a walk through luscious jungles, get lost among snowy evergreens, and look out from mossy banks across vast Nordic fjords in Living in the Forest, a dynamic survey of contemporary forest homes.

California Contemporary: The Houses of Grant C. Kirkpatrick and KAA Design | PA Press
A stunning collection of twelve visionary and contemporary California residential exteriors and interiors, from award-winning design firm KAA Design, founded by Grant Kirkpatrick.

Living By The Sea By Wim Pauwels | Beta Plus
18 new residential houses and apartments with breathtaking sea views from all over the world: Mallorca, Greece, New Zealand, South of France, Belgium, the West and East Coast of the United States, Denmark, Ibiza, South Africa, Saint-Barth and beyond.

Nomad at Home: Designing the Home More Traveled by Hilary Robertson | Simon & Schuster
In Nomad at Home, compulsive wanderer Hilary Robertson showcases 10 unique locations and tells the stories of different nomadic tribes: the Adopters, who have left home forever and made a life elsewhere, as well as the Escapists, always on the move, with a base in two, three, or maybe even four locations. Then there are the Serial Wanderers, who simply absorb the DNA of any given destination and bring it all back home.

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