Start your 2025 reading list with this curated collection of must-reads, as seen in the pages of aspire design and home magazine’s recently released winter issue.
Alpine Style: Bringing Mountain Magic Home by Katheryn O’Shea-Evans | Gibbs Smith
Alpine Style is a compendium of some of the most exquisite mountain interior design projects on the planet… as enchanting as the mountains themselves. Whether storybook and classic or sleek and modern, these alpine interiors from across the globe are tailor-made for après-ski fun.
Frontier: Cowboys of the Americas; Photography of Anouk Masson Krantz | Images Publishing
In Anouk Masson Krantz’s most expansive work to date, she travels tens of thousands of miles across the Americas, broadening her focus from the United States to both American continents. In her exquisite, large-scale photographs, Anouk captures sweeping landscapes and paints an intimate portrait of the enduring cross-boundary legacies of the North American cowboy, Central American vaquero, and South American gaucho.
Knowing the West: Visual Legacies of the American West edited by Mindy N. Besaw and Jami C. Powell | Rizzoli Electa
This expansive survey of the art and culture of the American West presents richly diverse works by more than 35 distinct Native American nations considered alongside non-Native artists from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.
The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick by Sarah Archer, Colin Fanning, Ann Glasscock, Holly Gore and Emily Zilber | Rizzoli Electa
Widely celebrated as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement, Wharton Esherick is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. Presenting his preserved hillside house and studio, this book showcases seven decades of innovative woodwork and sculpture, embodying his influence on American art and design.
Winter Homes Stylish Living for Cool Climates by Jeanette Wall (introduction) | Images Publishing
There’s an elemental satisfaction in living in a cozy sanctuary in the midst of a snowy landscape. This revised edition of Winter Homes beautifully illustrates examples from winter wonderlands around the globe and provides insight into the architectural and interior design techniques used to create both a connection to nature while contending with biting winter conditions.
Ranchlands: From the Land, For the Land contributions by Duke Phillips III and Madeline Jorden | Rizzoli
A beautiful photographic collection of life on the open range, capturing what ranching looks like today while honoring the enduring spirit of the American West.
Home on Earth: Recipes for Healthy Housing by BLDUS | ORO Editions
Using traditional materials processed with contemporary techniques, BLDUS designs and builds sustainable houses in and around Washington D.C. that pay tribute to their contexts and gain integrity as they age. Home on Earth showcases built houses alongside material studies and models to propose a healthy building cuisine specific to the Mid-Atlantic Region. These contextual houses are advocates for simple healthy building materials that work well in the Mid-Atlantic region and have low impacts on their points of growth, manufacture, installation, inhabitation, and eventual disposal.
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