Interior Design + Style

By Laurie Wisbrun
This authoritative guide outlines everything readers need to know to create gorgeous fabrics. There’s nothing like it on the market! Learn More

By Sibella Court Photographs by Chris Court
In this deluxe cloth-covered style guide, celebrated designer Sibella Court travels the world in search of eclectic inspiration. She explores far-flung destinations and captures the essence of each in small details, exotic color palettes, exquisite textures, and traditional crafts. Along the way, she shows readers how to incorporate these elements into interiors and how to replicate the ideas in their own spaces. Learn More

By Kent Kleinman, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Lois Weinthal, ed.
AfterTaste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design is an edited volume comprising texts, interviews and portfolios that collectively document new theories and emerging critical practices in the field of interior design. The material is informed by, but not limited to, the annual AfterTaste symposia hosted by Parsons The New School of Design. Learn More

By Lois Weinthal
Interior design, as a relatively young discipline within the academic world of design, has historically been interpreted as an extension of other fine arts. Narratives exist, but they all too often treat interior design as a function of architecture or display rather than experience. An independent interior design theory is virtually nonexistent. Professor Lois Weinthal envisions a future where interior design is treated with parity to architecture and industrial design, a future with a new interior. Learn More

By John Ingledew
A source book of visual ideas and strategies for visual communication How to Solve any Creative Brief: An A Z of Ideas explains the key ideas, sources of inspiration and visual techniques that have been used throughout design history. Learn More

By Christopher Stuart
Featuring 30 designs by leading designer-makers from around the world DIY Furniture shows you how to use simple techniques to make stunning designer furniture from scratch. Learn More

By Tony Morgan
A great introduction for retail students, this book offers a user-friendly reference guide to all aspects of visual merchandising and covers both window dressing and in-store areas. Learn More

By Anna Sui
Fans of the iconic fashion designer can peek into the world of Anna Sui with this sketchbook, where blank pages for drawing are interspersed with Sui’s own fashion illustrations, scans of her vibrant textiles, and inspiring quotes from her twenty year career as one of the most beloved of designers. Learn More

By Molly Jane Quinn Illustrated by Jenna Talbott
True modernity requires much more than discipline, vision, and a willingness to live without upper kitchen cabinets. It’s Lonely in the Modern World outlines exactly what’s required to achieve sleek design and the requisite ennui. From the creators of the wildly popular Web site Unhappyhipsters.com, this essential guide is for today’s hipsters what The Official Preppy Handbook was for prepsters. Learn More

By Laetitia Devernay
Pairing two seemingly disparate elements—an orchestra conductor and a grove of trees—award-winning artist Laetitia Devernay herself orchestrates a visual magnum opus. Learn More

By Julian Davison and Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
The Singapore shophouse is an architectural gem— a particular building form that is unique to the island. This book traces its development from rudimentary shophouse through various incarnations of decorative style—Neoclassical, Chinese Baroque, Jubilee-style, Edwardian, Rococo, Tropical Modern—all the while commenting on the various influences that fueled its evolution. Learn More

By Louisa Taylor
Ceramicists have been plying their art and craft for thousands of years, and never more prolifically than today. The Ceramics Bible is the most comprehensive and up-to-date volume on the subject. Learn More

By Eli Wilner
Originally published in 2000, The Gilded Edge was the first book to offer an in-depth look at America’s legacy of exquisite antique picture frames. Studied and appreciated in Europe for many years, frame connoisseurship was neglected in America until Eli Wilner created this lushly illustrated celebration of the craft. Learn More

By Otto Friedrich Bollnow, Translated by Christine Shuttleworth with an introduction by Joseph Kohlmaier
Following its publication in Germany in 1963, Otto Friedrich Bollnow's Human Space quickly became essential reading within a cross-disciplinary field of subject areas including architecture, anthropology, and philosophy. Learn More

By Karl Champley,Illustrations by Arthur Mount
Master carpenter and DIY Network host Karl Champley offers 50 home improvement projects to maximize space in any dwelling, no matter how big or small. Keeping an eye on style and economy, Champley outlines tools, materials, and techniques for searching ou... Learn More

By Shashi Caan
Interior design helps to shape all aspects of our lives and has now come of age both intellectually and professionally. This text sets out to change and clarify the perceptions and misconceptions about contemporary interior design by examining some of the key issues that define what it is, how it is different from architecture, what specific skills it requires and what design problems it solves. Learn More

By Holly Becker,and Joanna Copestick,Photographs by Debi Treloar
In Decorate, the world's top designers and leading decor experts including Kelly Wearstler, Amy Butler, Jonathan Adler, and many others come together to share over 1,000 professional tips, ideas, and solutions for every room and every budget. Wri... Learn More

By Francesca Gavin
Creative Space looks at 30 homes, from New York to Tokyo, via London and Paris, of the designers,directors, stylists, artists, graffiti writers, curators, novelists, and innovators who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary culture. Filled... Learn More

By John Stones
Very Small Cafs and Restaurants features 40 projects from around the world by such designersas Wonderwall, Marti Guix, and Thomas Heatherwick. Almost all of the establishments featured measure less than 150 square metres so the designers must... Learn More

By Drew Plunkett
Construction and detailing are vital skills for all students studying interior design and architecture. This accessible, up-to-date text explains the principles of sound construction for interiors, and provides the means to create successful variations on... Learn More

By Diana Vreeland,with Christopher Hemphill,Foreword by Marc Jacobs
Legendary fashion maven Diana Vreelandat the urging of her editor Jackie Oauthored a classic volume in the 1980s on the quality of "allure" in fashion and in life. Now back in print, this new edition features a foreword from the incomparable fashion des... Learn More

By Jane Thompson,and Alexandra Lange,Foreword by Rob Forbes
When Ben Thompson opened Design Research in Boston in 1953, his innovative store became synonymous with modern interior design, lighting a public spark that still burns today, though the store itself is no longer. When the mass-produced furniture of imper... Learn More

By Philip Hughes
Exhibition Design offers a thorough grounding in the principles of designing for exhibitions. It describesthe skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including:• Developing a brief and working with clients• D... Learn More

By Jenny Gibbs
Aimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practice of interior design as well as invaluable information about education and careers, and gives a balanced inside view of the business today. Its br... Learn More

By John Stones
The limitations of a tiny space, rather than inhibiting designers, often result in some of the most innovative and exciting retail design. While small shops offer the chance for famous designers to experiment and showcase their skills for the retailers wh... Learn More

By Drew Plunkett
This volume covers all stages of visual presentation in interior design, from early concept sketches and more evolved technical drawings to complex computer renderings, models for client presentation, and production drawings for contractors.St... Learn More

By Ian Rudge,and Geraldine Rudge
This book looks at every aspect of interior detail for domestic spaces. It is designed to appeal to anyone interested in improving the home environment, from DIY enthusiasts to professionals such as architects and interior designers. Products selected com... Learn More

By Rebecca Proctor
As we become only too aware of the damage man has caused to the planet, more of us want to furnish and decorate our homes with products that do not harm the environment. But being sensitive to the environment does not mean you have to sacrifice good desig... Learn More

By Derek Fagerstrom,and Lauren Smith
Like a roll of wallpaper, this home decor book is both lovely to look at and entirely practical to use. It showcases contemporary and vintage patterns, plus instructions for over 50 wallpaper projects ranging from quick scrap crafts (book covers) to more... Learn More

By Virginia McLeod
This book examines over 30 bathroom designs from around the world, each one designed by a notable architect and created especially for a specific residence. For each bathroom there is an image of the whole house (placing it in context and prov... Learn More

By Ron Woodson,and Jaime Rummerfield,Foreword by Sara Ruffin Costello,Photographs by Jonathan Shapiro
At the intersection of Old Hollywood glamour and sleek modernity, you'll find sought-after Los Angeles design duo Ron Woodson and Jaime Rummerfield. Their first book is an over-the-top design object that's equal parts creative inspiration, design acumen,... Learn More