26 New Design Books to Buy Now

In their first book, Southern California–based architecture and interior design duo Odom and Kate Stamps take readers inside their picturesque projects. 

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the beloved Finnish textile maker, this new book gives fans a look back at some of the brand’s biggest moments, a peek into the printmaking and patterns, and a preview of what the next 70 years might look like for the iconic company.  

This volume is precisely what its title implies: an in-depth and invigorating look at the world’s best contemporary interior designers, including talents like  Studio KO, Beata Heuman, Romanek Design Studio, and Faye Toogood, among many others. Flip through a vast array of stunning projects from designers selected by a panel of experts, including ELLE DECOR executive editor Ingrid Abramovitch.

The Maine House gives readers a look into a selection of homes across Vacationland, highlighting the charm and personality of the places and the people who inhabit them. 

This book takes you on a visual vacation to the south of France to examine the charming design characteristics of an 18th-century farmhouse, as well as a selection of living areas, private spaces, gardens, and terraces of the region. 

An encyclopedia of sorts, this book illuminates the stories and histories behind 1,000 design patents—a read that’s sure to satisfy your inner design-history nerd.

When we think of midcentury modern design, titans like Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen probably come to mind. But this book views design through a sociological lens and highlights how race, gender, and identity affected the aesthetic choices of the much referenced era.

This volume visits gardens around the world that are notable for both their beauty and their thoughtfulness to the environment.  

The founder and creative director of Firmdale Hotels and the Kit Kemp Design Studio shares from her go-to artisans on how to do everything to create your own personal retreat.

Home design, style expert, and Junaglow founder Justina Blakeney shares how to live with pattern, color, and plants in her second book.  

The DIY book shares how to create a space for living, breathing, and enjoying a sustainable home and life. 

What’s better than a look inside a home in the idyllic Italian countryside? A selection of essays from authors including Zadie Smith and Edmund White, among many others who’ve retreated to a storied Tuscan farmhouse to write.

The first book from husband-wife design duo Giannetti Home travels through 12 of the firm’s projects from the East Coast to Southern California. 

Even if you’re not planning an escape to the French Riviera this summer, this book just might be able to quench some wanderlust by providing a look inside one of the world’s most glamorous hotels. 

Get a behind-the-scenes peek into how some of the world’s most spectacular sets come to fruition in this new monograph from star set designer and architect David Rockwell. The Tony award–winning architect also notably created the set for the 2021 Oscars. 

This new book presents a collection of contemporary homes on the Massachusetts island known for Victorian homes, farmhouses, and coveted summer retreats.

You might know Knoll’s iconic office furniture, but do you know its influential design director, Florence?  This new book examines her career and how she shaped furniture design forever. 

More than 20 years after he released his first cookbook (now out of print and in high demand), British architect John Pawson and his wife, Catherine, have collaborated on a new cookbook full of incredible recipes to make in each season. Just as delicious: a look inside their dreamy Cotswolds home. 

Tadao Ando, the Pritzker prize–winning architect known for poetic concrete buildings, gets a new look in this book highlighting 10 of his most recent projects.

From treehouses to mountaintops, let the elements be your guide as Living in Nature channels air, earth, fire, and water in a remarkable look at architects communing with the natural world. 

Artists and carpet designers Brad Davis and Janis Provisor celebrate the 25th anniverary of their innovative partnership in A Tale of Warp and Weft: Fort Street Studio. 

In Yves Béhar: Designing Ideas, the Swiss-born industrial designer, who has collaborated with the likes of BMW and Herman Miller, looks back on 20 years of work and examines how the world’s most influential companies are rethinking design. 

If interior designer Charlotte Moss has one piece of advice for arranging flowers, it would be to throw out all the rules. Moss’s spontaneous approach to arrangements blossoms in Flowers.