From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this year.

Top shelf: Our carefully curated roundup of four recently released NYC design-themed books. Lewis Miller; Simon Upton; Assouline; Rizzoli From flowers as public art on New York City streets to a ...

For just over a year, Google’s hardware design team has been working inside a new, highly classified design studio. Only a small fraction of Google’s employees are allowed inside this beautiful, ...

A philosophy of beauty can mean many things to many people, but in the lexicon of local design firm Studio Thomas James, it encompasses a fusion of vivid color, rich textures and luxe materials.

With a foreword by her wife Roxane Gay, Debbie Millman’s Why Design Matters contains over 80 of the writer, designer, and curator’s best interviews from her beloved podcast Design Matters. The richly ...

What do we really want in a home? Comfort, clarity, calm? Drama, decoration, delight? While you can never go wrong consulting design and decorating books as a source of gorgeous inspiration, you can ...

The digital age may have streamlined design project timelines and workflows, but it has yet to replace a studio’s reference library. Spreading open large interior design books across a desk—whether ...

With Salone del Mobile, Three Days of Design, and other industry events soon over for the spring, much of the design world is ready for a summer of quiet reflection. To help provide you with some ...