With the gifting season ahead of us what better time to take a look at a selection of home and interior design books? If you love design as much as we do you might find the perfect suggestion for inclusion in your letter to Santa.
Create: Inspiring homes that value creativity before consumption
Emily Hanson
Ryan Peters & Small
Creativity before consumption is about reinvention and sustainability for the sake of the planet, but also for the pure joy and satisfaction of creating a home that is truly unique.
Using her experience as a stylist and set designer, Hanson shows how to create homes that meet our needs yet have style, dash, and personality aplenty without relying on yet more disposable ‘stuff’ for the next generation to deal with.
She explains how to establish a sense of personal style and to think twice before getting sucked into the ‘bin and buy’ cycle, as well as showcasing real-life homes that display incredible creativity and reflect their owners’ needs, tastes, and style.
Nomad At Home
Hilary Robertson
Ryland Peters & Small
Nomad at Home dissects the desire to wander the globe from the point of view of the design-led traveller, those for whom ‘it is a better thing to travel hopefully than to arrive’.
Compulsive wanderer Hilary Robertson showcases 12 unique locations and tells the stories of different nomadic tribes: the Adopters, who have left home forever and made a life elsewhere, as well as the Escapists, always on the move. Then there are the Serial Wanderers, who simply absorb the DNA of any given destination and bring it all back home, creating province in their own home with ingredients gathered on their travels.
Patina Modern
Chris Mitchell & Pilar Guzman
Artisan
A tastemaking couple share their playbook for creating a home that’s both beautiful and comfortable.
Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzman are design obsessives who want the same thing: rooms that are spare yet warm, layered yet clean, current yet timeless. Rooms that never forget the real humans – with all their needs, hopes, emotions, aspirations, and even spills – who live in these spaces. Over the course of six evermore ambitious home renovations, they’ve cracked the code on how to achieve this.
Details Make A Home
Hans Blomquist
Ryland Peters & Small
Take a closer look at the details behind international interiors stylist and art director Hans Blomquist’s unique and idiosyncratic take on the world.
In hundreds of ravishingly beautiful, inspiring pictures, he encourages the reader to see the world through his own eyes, revealing the possibilities in even the humblest of items and putting together pieces to create striking, painterly, and evocative rooms and displays.
