Best Design Books

Luis Bustamante | Interior Design Studio

January 12, 2013

Luis Bustamante is an exclusive Madrid-based architect and interior designer. His work is a little more classical in style. I’m obsessed about his ideas and inspirations for a modern home decoration. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at University Complutense of Madrid. In the eighties he devoted to sculpture and painting, exhibiting several times in Madrid and Barcelona. In 1991, he started his interior designer career in Barcelona where he lived during 8 years and continued working in this area. Later he moved to Mexico for 5 years where he continued his professional career and was consolidated as an international interior designer. In the year 2000, Señor Bustamante returned back to Madrid where he established his current interior design studio unifying a high qualified group of professionals. The studio in Madrid is currently considered the operational headquarters for all of his national and international projects. Luis Bustamante’s studio has carried out residentia, commercial and ephemeral projects adapting his works to different environments and working conditions. His undeniable international background and accurate work has permitted the studio to develop several projects in New York, Miami, London, Gstaad, Caracas, Dominican Republic, Mexico, etc. Señor Bustamante also happens to have a new…

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Faile Temple Book

January 11, 2013

The latest book from the vanguard American urban artists present FAILE’s most complex and ambitious project to date – a large scale, temporary installation of a temple on Lisbon’s Praça de Restauradores, created for Portugal Arte 10 festival. The vanguard American urban artists masterfully translate familiar elements and themes from the contemporary prints, graphic design, and paintings for which they are best known into decorative frescoes and sculptures for a structure inspired by the ruins of a Baroque chapel. The temple project gave FAILE a unique opportunity to reinterpret and delve deeper into the core themes of their art—consumerism, globalization, and the tension between classical art and the profane. FAILE Temple not only documents the finished project in all its fascinating detail, but also features images of its construction and installation as well as pieces that inspired its design. An insightful text about FAILE’s work by the art journalist W. Ian Bourland rounds out the publication. The duo of American artists known as FAILE have established themselves along with Banksy and Shepard Fairey as the leading figures in urban art. They are best known for their prints, graphic design, and paintings, which have been exhibited in museums and have been…

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The Story of Eames Furniture

January 10, 2013

Charles and Ray Eames, two American legendary designers, who have worked in several art areas, from architecture to furniture and from fine art to film industry, have now their story printed in a unique 2-volume, 800-page book, with more than 2,500 images. Marilyn Neuhart together with her husband John Neuhart tell The Story of Eames Furniture — to paraphrase Charles Eames himself — of how Eames furniture got to be the way it is. Both have worked at the Eames Office in various capacities since the 1950s. They have looked after the house of Charles and Ray Eames since the designers’ deaths and have supervised the Eames Archive. More familiar with the material and protagonists than almost any other, Marilyn Neuhart has spent the last 15 years compiling the stories, images, and recollections featured in this book. The Story of Eames Furniture is the benchmark reference on the subject. It is a biography — not of an individual person, but of arguably the most influential and important furniture brand of our time. Brimming with images and insightful text, this unique book is the benchmark reference on what is arguably the most influential and important furniture brand of our time. It reveals…

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Rhapsody by Kelly Wearstler

January 9, 2013

Kelly Wearstler, the California-based interior designer who practically invented the term “maximalism”, have launched her fourth book “Rhapsody” on October 23, 2012 Rhapsody compiles some of Wearstler’s never-before-photographed projects and it offers a look into her glamorous world, profiling in detail her latest residential designs, including sumptuous new hotels along with her creative process. The tome takes you through her creative process, bursting with her glamorous and energetic vignettes, all using her signature bold color, texture, and mix of both vintage and new. Throughout the pages, she dissects certain rooms and explains the importance of juxtaposing rawness and refinement to get her distinctive look. Here, the idea of “mod baroque” might mean silver studded walls paired with a tiger-print sofa, or three square brass tables arranged like blocks into a jagged, uneven dining table, or a floor-to-ceiling ceramic fireplace that offsets ’70s-style wood paneling: anything, really, that ensures your eye is “captivated by every view, whether by a dominating architectural feature or a movable tablescape,” Wearstler writes in the book. Whether decorating a boutique hotel, restaurant, or home, Kelly Wearstler rarely designs with a “less is more” approach. Everything the designer-turned-fashion muse touches seems to turn to gold (sometimes quite literally, given her opulent interiors)….

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Guy Laramee Book Art

January 8, 2013

Guy Laramee Book Art – Are you familiar with the fantastic work of Guy Laramée? In the course of his 30 years of practice, this interdisciplinary artist has created in such varied and numerous disciplines as theater writing and directing, contemporary music composition, musical instrument design and building, singing, video, scenography, sculpture, installation, painting, and literature. He has received more than 30 arts grants and was awarded the Canada Council’s Joseph S. Stauffer award for musical composition. His work has been presented in United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Latin America. Among Guy Lamarée sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: “So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase…

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XOOOOX Germany’s most popular street artist

January 7, 2013

You can already buy the first monograph on Germany’s most popular street artist! XOOOOX was the first German street artist to come to prominence on the international art market. Artist, director, and curator Aaron Rose, who is a key part of the Beautiful Losers art movement, says: “The work of XOOOOX has always been a standout for me. The images of these sexy fashionable women stenciled around the streets of Berlin always stood in such high contrast to the collapsing buildings they were painted on. In a landscape covered with street art that always looks much the same it is very refreshing to see an artist with such a singular vision.” In this first monograph edited by Benjamin Wolbergs, the documentation of XOOOOX’s work on the street is complemented by photographs of select exhibitions and of the artist at work.

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Dior Couture Book

January 6, 2013

Dior Couture Book – I’m quite new to the world of blogging, but after having read a few design and fashion blogs over the last few years I thought it would be a fun idea to start my own. As a huge lover of the Design Process, I plan to use this blog to post the best design books all related with fashion, interiors, photography, tips … things that I find interesting and inspiring, as well as ideas and concepts for “our” designs! I am an interior designer from Los Angeles that really appreciates a good Book, who doesn’t?! But I’m fascinated about the way we can find inspiration through reading. A book takes away our time, we can visit the past or the future or be immersed in a different world.

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