In Interiors Styled by Mieke ten Have, the sought-after creative shares her four guidelines for bringing rooms to life. “Things speak to me—a silent but captivating conversation—and I’m always listening, my eyes for ears,” the in-demand interiors stylist writes. Styling is storytelling, she believes, and, with richly detailed images of her own picturesque New York property, she offers plenty of inspiration to weave a tale of your own.
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Peter Marino: Ten Modern Houses
ELLE DECOR A-List designer Peter Marino, known for his work with luxury clients like Chanel, displays his limitless creativity in Ten Modern Houses, his first publication focused on his residential work around the world. Here, he showcases nine completed projects, including this Long Island house, and a tenth work in progress.
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Op! Optimistic Interiors
ELLE DECOR A-List interior designer Oliver M. Furth takes readers inside his own home and more than a dozen others by showcasing his eclectic but considered interiors. With his background in the decorative arts, Furth prizes collecting. If you’re looking for a hit of dopamine, Optimistic Interiors is it in book form.
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Inside the Homes of Artists: For Art’s Sake
Tiqui Atenico Demirdjian’s new book is a tour of the homes of renowned artists, including Julie Mehretu, Tracey Emin, David Salle, Francesco Vezzoli, and more, located everywhere from New York to Milan. These spaces are as distinct and as creative as the artists who fill them.
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Love How You Live: Adventures in Interior Design
Rodman Primack’s Love How You Live promises an adventure, and an adventure you get. The designer takes readers inside the playful homes he creates from a house in Truro, Cape Cod, to those in Kentucky and Hawaii, with spotlights on artists Primack has worked with to turn these homes into true works of art.
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Home at Last: Enduring Design for the New American House
With Home at Last, architect Gil Schafer gives readers an up-close-and-personal look at some of the storied homes he’s designed. From Rhode Island to Florida, each chapter examines a different project. “The beauty of the passage of time is that it deepens your discernment through experience,” he writes. “And with that time I have gained an ever-expanding appreciation for the fact that a house must never be about its architect but rather all about those who will live within its walls.”
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Designed for Life: The World’s Best Product Designers
Who are the world’s best product designers? Kelsey Keith and the editors of Phaidon gather together an expert panel of curators, critics, and journalists to nominate 100 of the most extraordinary creators today—from heavy-hitters like Barber Osgerby and the Bouroullec brothers to newer firms like Objects of Common Interest and Jomo Tariku. It’s a revelatory glimpse at the state of design today.
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Bunny Williams: Life in the Garden
Bunny Williams’s new garden book is anything but your average interior design tome. It’s personal, intimate, and the photographs are breathtaking (shot by Annie Schlechter as well as Williams’s nephew-in-law, James Gillispie). Williams presents a study of each of the gardens that make up her and husband John Rosselli’s Connecticut property, where Williams began designing the gardens 40 years ago. Her discussions of flower arranging and entertaining will stay with you. Every page is as beautiful as the next.
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What We Keep: Advice from Artists and Designers on Living with the Things You Love
Each chapter of Colony founder Jean Lin’s new book shares advice on living with the things you love. The book includes profiles of fashion and interior designer Carly Cushnie (who collects glassware) and architect Adam Rolston (vintage boxes), among many others. With a foreword by former ELLE DECOR editor in chief Asad Syrkett, this book will have you rethinking what you keep and taking note of what to collect next.
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Cuban Mid-Century Design: A Modernist Regime
You’ve never seen Cuba like this before. In this richly illustrated tome, authors Abel González Fernández, Laura Mott, and Andrew Satake Blauvelt showcase the work of postrevolutionary artists, designers, and architects. These creative projects, all of which have never been exhibited outside the island, tell the narrative of a creative community and the story of the country they called home.
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Rizzoli Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style
From Beautiful, to More Beautiful, and now Forever Beautiful, Mark D. Sikes, who most recently refreshed the historic Blair House in Washington, D.C., takes readers inside 12 different projects, ranging from homes in Florida; Long Island, New York; and Vail, Colorado. The work follows the pages of the calendar, each project stands in for a different month of the year and the beauty that comes with the seasons’ changes.
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Isabel López-Quesada, Town & Country: Isabel López-Quesada
Leading Madrid-based designer Isabel López-Quesada offers a master class in mixing classic contemporary design in her monograph Town & Country, which explores settings in the city and far from it, including her native Spain and island homes in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and beyond.
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Vincent Van Duysen: Private
Vincent Van Duysen’s work has been enjoyed by many design lovers through his design of Hotel August in Antwerp and the furniture he’s designed over his years as creative director of Molteni&C. Now, through his new book Vincent Van Duysen: Private, with photographs by François Halard, readers can experience his most personal projects—his own homes.
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Rosario Candela & the New York Apartment: 1927–1937 the Architecture of the Age
ELLE DECOR A-List designer David Netto gives a tour of Upper East Side buildings designed by Rosario Candela, the Italian-American architect who shaped the New York City skyline throughout the 1920s. Each chapter gives readers the history and a glimpse inside those buildings with floor plans and photos of the interiors of its famed residents, including Sid and Anne Bass’s apartment decorated by Mark Hampton, fashion designer Bill Blass, and the Lorenzo Mongiardino–designed home of Marella Agnelli. The book also features essays by critic Paul Goldberger, who first wrote about Candela in 1979, and architect Peter Pennoyer, who has put his own imprint on the Upper East Side skyline.
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Michael S. Smith Classic by Design
Michael S. Smith’s seventh book, Classic by Design, is a feast for the eyes and mind. From his own pied-à-terre in Madrid to George Lucas’s château in Provence, every project in the book has been decorated with careful consideration and elegant beauty.
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Ashe Leandro: Architecture + Interiors
With an introduction by Seth Meyers and an afterword by Rashid Johnson, ELLE DECOR A-List firm Ashe Leandro’s new book thoughtfully documents the tight bonds that designer Ariel Ashe and architect Reinaldo Leandro have built with their clients through the years.
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Blenheim: 300 Years of Life in a Palace
Blenheim offers an inside look at the palace that has been in the Churchill family for the past 320 years. Henrietta Spencer-Churchill takes readers throughout the palace (originally a gift from Queen Anne and the eventual birthplace of Winston Churchill) opening up the doors to art, furniture, tapestries, and vast gardens—all of which have been a part of a meticulous restoration effort.
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The African Decor Edit: Collecting and Decorating with Heritage Objects
An essential and original contribution to understanding the work of African artisans, Nasozi Kakembo’s African Decor Edit, with a foreword by Justina Blakeney, explores design traditions from profiles of artisans across nearly a dozen countries in Africa including Mali, Uganda, and Morocco. Kakembo marries advice on both ethically sourcing work and appreciation of aesthetics in homes from London to Kakembo’s own home in Maryland.
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Alyssa Kapito: Interiors
A-List designer Alyssa Kapito’s first book, which was published 10 years after the creation of her eponymous design firm, is every bit as calming and sophisticated as her interiors. Kapito showcases 10 projects in the tristate area that highlight her approach to design. She writes: “I believe personal style comes from those little rules one makes or breaks just for oneself.”
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Elizabeth Roberts Architects: Collected Stories
Architect Elizabeth Roberts’s new book features fictional stories by Christine Coulson inspired by the townhouses and brownstones for which Roberts has become known. The book covers 18 of Roberts’s projects, including a surprising ground-up mountain escape.
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