Best Design Books

Elevate Your Home Decor With These Hardware Products

June 4, 2019

Hardware Products – The right piece of hardware – drawer pulls, knobs and handles – can do wonders to the most basic furniture. Whether you want to dress up old cabinets or complement new ones, the right piece of hardware can make all the difference. For that reason, Best Design Books brings you some hardware products that will help you to elevate your home decor. Take a look: TIFFANY MARBLE Jewelry has been inspiring humankind for centuries, Tiffany furniture handles, resemble the perfect shapes and purity of those who last forever. Cabinet Hardware with a handful of elegance and refinement, adorn your designs with our cast polished brass handles, together with estremoz marble. ACORN Portraying with elegance the unique beauty that resides on detailing, Acorn drawer handles are imposing cabinet hardware pulls to incorporate in your unique furniture designs. METEOR Meteor took inspiration on how sparks can burn out in a brilliant blaze, meteors in their magnificent and powerful glow and form. An elegant doorknob, exquisite and unique choice of décor complement to enhance your door designs. SKYLINE For any major metropolis, beauty is a precious backdrop even to appreciate things from afar. Skylines are the city’s profile, an iconic symbol, and…

Book review: Discover Jewelry Design with Golden Menagerie

December 19, 2016

Book review: Discover Jewelry Design with Golden Menagerie – With an artist’s eye and explorer’s heart, Temple St. Clair explores our relationship to animals through a lens of whimsy and discovery. St. Clair, winner of the 2016 GEM Award for Jewelry Design, celebrates rare gemstones and Florentine craftsmanship in each of the one-of-a-kind pieces that comprise her Haute Couture collection, illustrated through luminous photography and St. Clair’s original watercolor paintings in The Golden Menagerie. From vibrantly jeweled Fantasy Birds earrings to a ring mounted with a falcon ready to take flight from the wearer’s finger, this exclusive window into St. Clair’s world brings her alchemical creations to life. See also: Book Review: Nendo – Interior Design Book from Japan With an artist’s eye and an explorer’s heart, Temple St. Clair fashions jewelry from rare colored gems with distinctive gold work to illustrate universal narratives of the earth and cosmos. In each of the one-of-a-kind pieces that comprise her Haute Couture collection, St. Clair explores our relationship to animals through a lens of whimsy and discovery and celebrates a connoisseur’s level of gemstones and Florentine craftsmanship. The Golden Menagerie offers an exclusive window into the alchemic jeweler’s process, illustrating the collection through…

New Book: The Irresistible Pearl Necklace

October 3, 2016

New Book: The Irresistible Pearl Necklace – The pearl necklace is an iconic classic, which has offered an irresistible invitation to subversive reinterpretation through the centuries. Renaissance queens, maharajas, First Ladies, and starlets from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the present have all made the pearl necklace part of their wardrobes, each wearing it after the fashion of the times or their own fancy. In The Pearl Necklace, Assouline and Mikimoto explore the legacy of these lustrous strands through fine art and fashion in a luxurious volume that reminds us why the pearl necklace has long been the ultimate object of fascination and fantasy. See also: Book Review: Once Upon a Chair… Jewelry historian Vivienne Becker is an award-winning journalist and author of several books on the history of jewelry design. Based in London, Becker is a contributing editor to Financial Times’s How to Spend It magazine, writes for newspapers and magazines around the world, and lectures and broadcasts on her subject. She organized and wrote the catalog for the first major exhibition of the jewelry of René Lalique, and curated Jewels of Fantasy, a traveling exhibition of twentieth-century costume jewelry. Becker’s previous books for Assouline include De Beers Jewellery…