Interior Design Books: Great Holiday Gifts
Whether for yourself or for that sleek and stylish person on your list for whom you do not know what to buy, Interior Design coffee table books make wonderful gifts. Below, we have selected five of our favorites for this holiday season.
Rooms To Inspire
“Decorating with America’s Best Designers”
By: Annie Kelly; Photography by: Tim Street-Porter
Rooms to Inspire is a wonderfully thought out and well photographed collection of the homes of thirteen trendsetters from East Coast to West. Each offers unique opinions and thoughts on asthetics, color, and making a well-decorated home feel like home. As said by the Washington Post: this book “makes quality decorating seem attainable.”
Featured Designers: Tony Duquette, Henri Samuel, Billy Haines, David Hicks, Miles Redd, Paul Fortune, Kelly Wearstler, Jonathan Adler, Muriel Brandolini and more.
Style By Saladino
Photography by: Barbara and Rene Stoeltie
If you are not familiar with the work of John Saladino, you are missing out on one of the world’s truly most tallented Interior Designers. Style By Saladino is John Saladino’s very first book, and in it he reveals many of his secrets on how to make any home an absolute sanctuary.
In the first part of his book, Saladino discusses the common design dilimmeas that hinder good design, such as: the axis of a room, scale, creating illusion, lighting, and color. In the second part of the book, the reader is taken on a guided tour of a number of Saladino’s most wonderful designs. This is a book on design that I refer to time and time again in my own designs.
A portfolio of John Saladino’s work is available on his company website. Visit the company website HERE.
Albert Hadley
“The Story of America’s Preeminent Interior Designer”
By: Adam Lewis
Albert Hadley is a look at the life and works of America’s Preeminent Interior Designer, in his very own words. From his days as a student at Parson’s School of Design in New York to his design partnership with Sister Parish, over 25 years of Hadley’s wonderful taste and style is encompassed in this tribute.
The book is comprised of many of Hadley’s early drawings and sketches, as well as photographs of some of his finest designs, such as: Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Davis, Mr. and Mrs. William Paley, Vice President and Mrs. Al Gore’s residence in Washington, D.C., Mrs. Vincent Astor, and others.
The Well-Lived Life
“One Hundred Years of House and Garden”
From the Authors of House and Garded Magazine
By: Dominique Browning
A reflection of America growing into it’s own style over the past century, through the eyes of one of America’s best loved periodicals, House and Garden. It is a wonderful book when taking into account the history lesson it is providing.
Hip Hollywood Homes
“An Intimate Look at L.A.’s Hottest Trendsetters and the Inspiring Spaces They Live In”
By: Sue Hostetler
Photography by: Peter Christiansen Valli
Los Angeles may just be the city where the term “trend setter” was coined. A city with its fingertips on the pulse of west coast style and pizazz. In Hip Hollywood Homes twenty-one of the trendiest of the trendy Hollywood trend setters open their doors for an intimate look into the personal space they call home.
From the Sex and the City creator Darren Star to the co-founder of Juicy Couture, Pamela Skaist-Levy. Join author Sue Hostetler as she leads a guided tour of these eclectic L.A. houses.
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