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Essential Art and Design Books
30 items
By
Hostess Closet
A curated archive of gorgeous art, fashion, and design books. Amazing coffee table books, your guests will love to flip through!
Sections
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Design Books
Fine Art Books
Design Books
Fresh and modern look at Tokyo through the camera lens. Inspiring fashion
Now is Now Tokyo: Street Photography
Iconic NYC street photographer presents decades of photos, inspirational clothing
Bill Cunningham: On the Street - Iconic Photos
Fantastical drawings, sketches, and paintings. Very imaginative
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel
Iconic designer shares her sensibilities and aesthetic, helps you develop your own
Kelly Wearstler: Synchronicity
Incredible look at restaurant menu design through the decades, history and design!
Menu Design in America, 1850–1985
Amazing dissection of logo creation and origins, very informative!
Logo Modernism
Iconic designers in furniture, textile design, architecture etc, so inspiring!
Eames
A refreshing approach to interior design; surround yourself with objects that you love
How to Live with Objects: Meaningful Interiors
So incredibly useful in any design situation: getting dressed, choosing a paint color, building a color palette
A Dictionary Of Color Combinations Vol 1
The Euro version is just as fun as the US version!
Menu Design in Europe(Multilingual Edition)
Stylish book from frequent collaborators Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola
Marc By Sofia
Absolutely endless interior design inspiration for all kinds of homes and rooms
Architectural Digest: Most Beautiful Rooms
A study in the evolution of cover art, enlightening!
1000 Record Covers
Fine Art Books
Iconic, gorgeous photos full of beautiful views and colors
Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection
Stunning photos of the iconic artist's work
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
Called “science fiction expressionism” the fantastical nature and use of color of these paintings need to be shared!
André Butzer
A meditation on appropriation
Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art
A thorough anthology, a great dive into the iconic painter
David Hockney: A Chronology 40th Anniv
60 works from the artist interwoven with archival documents
Alice Neel: I Am the Century
Gorgeous black and white photography spanning decades
Helmut Newton. Legacy
Largest collection of Bay Area Mission School artist
Margaret Kilgallen: that’s where the beauty is.
Futuristic expressionist with lovely colors
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
Stunning large scale surrealist paintings
Dalí
Self portraits and photos in Kahlo's signature painting style
Frida Kahlo
Accompaniment to Santa Fe exhibit of the same name
Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place
Stunning retrospective of the abstract expressionist
Rothko (Foundation Louis Vuitton)
Kinetic sculptures exploring the concept of time
Calder: Sculpting Time
Landmark artist Donald Judd and his works
Judd
Light projection works
James Turrell: A Retrospective
Color filled retrospective from American artist
Ellsworth Kelly
