These Are the 12 Design Books You Must Buy This Month
- 1/13
These Are the 12 Design Books You Must Buy This Month
Want to get away? (Who doesn’t right about now?) Travel may still be difficult these days, but never fear—a whole new crop of design books is out this month to transport you vicariously from the lushest villas in the Caribbean to stately, historic homes across Great Britain to modern interiors in the American South. Also, in her first monograph, ELLE Decor A-List designer Beata Heuman shows us how she combines her lively Scandinavian style with English interiors, and fellow ELLE Decor A-Lister and design titan Juan Montoya will take you to seaside escapes he has designed across the Americas. Read on to see these immersive books and many more.
- 2/13
1) Design Remix: A New Spin on Traditional Rooms
Rizzoli
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$41.40
Something borrowed, something new: ELLE Decor A-List designer Corey Damen Jenkins weds time-honored and contemporary styles in Design Remix: A New Spin on Traditional Rooms.
- 3/13
2) Beata Heuman: Every Room Should Sing
Rizzoli
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$50.60
Beata Heuman aims to help you find your design voice with Every Room Should Sing, the London designer’s debut.
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- 4/13
3) Designing Paradise: Juan Montoya
Rizzoli
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$59.80
Juan Montoya’s Designing Paradise will transport you to pavilions, pools, and plush pads across the Americas, all created by the Colombian-born designer.
- 5/13
4) A Year at Clove Brook Farm
Rizzoli
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$41.40
Spend A Year at Clove Brook Farm and witness the seasons shift at the Dutchess County, New York, estate of ceramist and gardener extraordinaire Christopher Spitzmiller.
- 6/13
5) With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932
Cranbrook Art Museum
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$125.00
Explore the radical roots of the Michigan training ground of Eames, Saarinen, and other icons in With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932.
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- 7/13
6) Island Whimsy: Designing a Paradise by the Sea
Rizzoli
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$50.60
Escape on a journey with ELLE Decor A-List designer Celerie Kemble, whose Island Whimsy will take you to her unforgettable tropical refuge in the Dominican Republic.
- 8/13
7) This Far and No Further: Photographs Inspired by the Voting Rights Movement
University of Texas Press
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$41.40
Stay engaged with This Far and No Further, the veteran interiors photographer William Abranowicz’s enlightening chronicle of the struggle for voting rights in the American South.
- 9/13
8) Houses of the National Trust: Homes with History
National Trust
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$40.00
Take a tour of Britain’s most breathtaking design treasures with the newly updated Houses of the National Trust.
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- 10/13
9) Visions of Home: Timeless Design, Modern Sensibility
Rizzoli
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$46.00
Visions of Home highlights the impressive work of the Southern architecture and interior design firm Historical Concepts.
- 11/13
10) Wilton House: The Art, Architecture, and Interiors of One of Britain’s Great Stately Homes
Rizzoli Electa
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$65.00
John Martin Robinson takes readers inside England’s nearly 500-year-old Wilton House and gives us all a glimpse of the architecture, interiors, and art that make the home the wonder that it is.
- 12/13
11) Inviting Interiors: A Fresh Take on Beautiful Rooms
Rizzoli
amazon.com
$38.66
Peek inside the colorful homes designed by the Atlanta-based interior designer Melanie Turner in her first book, Inviting Interiors.
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- 13/13
12) Dream Rooms for Children: Inspiring Spaces for Sleep, Study, and Play
Rizzoli
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$46.00
Design writer (and one of the people behind the popular @quintessence Instagram) Susanna Salk showcases inspiring children’s rooms from designers such as Charlotte Moss and Nate Berkus, and shares tips and tidbits for designing your own kids’ rooms, in her new book Dream Rooms for Children.
Any of these gorgeous new releases will transport you to a different world.