Books for the Library
A collection of books for your library or coffee table that inspire, educate and elevate the aesthetic of your space.
A curated collection of books for your library or coffee table, chosen to inspire, spark conversation, offer insight and elevate the overall aesthetic of your space with timeless style and character.
The Eames Houses
Eckart Maise
This book offers the first comprehensive look at Charles and Ray Eames’ residential architecture, presenting eight houses they designed from 1945 to 1955 through sketches, drawings, letters and photographs (many previously unpublished) alongside new diagrams and models. They reveal a human-centred approach to modernism grounded in structural clarity, intelligent prefabrication and flexible systems that support daily life in all its forms.
$80
Phaidon
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Jean Nouvel
This lavishly illustrated book traces Jean Nouvel’s interior transformation of the Fondation Cartier’s new Paris home at 2 place du Palais-Royal. Opened in 2025 after five years of work, the historic building has become a modular architectural vehicle for artistic creativity. The book places the project within Nouvel’s wider career, including works designed for the Fondation Cartier and other exhibition venues around the world.
$100
Thames & Hudson
Designed to Stay
Design Hotels
Showcasing more than 300 Design Hotels member properties, Designed to Stay celebrates places shaped by authentic hospitality and inspiring design. Organised by atmosphere rather than geography, and featuring vivid imagery and essays by global creatives, the book shows how each property offers an immersive experience rooted in community and design, from stylish urban sanctuaries to tranquil countryside escapes.
$130
Gestalten
Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles
Fabienne Eggelhöfer and Brenda Danilowitz
Exploring Anni Albers’ work as a trailblazing weaver, textile designer, artist and writer, this book traces ideas of materiality, construction and architecture across her practice. Featuring Albers’ own writings as well as new pieces on her techniques, influences and relationship to architecture, the book includes hundreds of images – some previously unpublished – and reaffirms her legacy as a key figure in 20th-century modernism.
$83
Yale University Press
Hidden in Plain Sight
Zeny Edwards
Biographer and architectural historian Zeny Edwards invites us on a meditative journey through language, nature, art and architecture in this stunning book. In non-linear, fragmented essays, Edwards finds meaning in absence: in the periphery, in the silence and in the interplay of light and shadow. She proposes “slow looking” as a way to transform everyday moments into deeper connections with the world and ourselves.
$55
Longueville Media
Herzog & de Meuron
Jeanette Kunsmann
Documenting 24 built projects designed by Herzog & de Meuron, this fifth-edition monograph spans works from the Royal College of Art in London and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg to the Ricola Kräuterzentrum in Laufen and the Prada building in Tokyo. Texts, photographs, drawings and illustrations offer a behind-the-scenes look at the architects’ design intentions, material experimentation, construction processes and building details.
$135
Birkhauser
