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Interior Design

1. Arts and Crafts Rugs for Craftsman Interiors: The Crab Tree Farm Collection

   David Cathers, Linda Parry, Diane Boucher, Et Al.

   Gustav Stickley is revered not only as a furniture maker but also as a leading proponent for the American Arts and Crafts movement.More

2. Rethinking Sitting

   Peter Opsvik

   A Scandinavian furniture designer offers insight into his thinking about sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his pioneering chairs.More

3. Michael Taylor: Interior Design

   Stephen M. Salny

   The life and work of the groundbreaking interior designer and inventor of the "California Look."More

4. Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935

   Michael C. Kathrens

   A survey of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, for all who love grand houses.More

5. Fabric Architecture: Creative Resources for Shade, Signage, and Shelter

   Samuel J. Armijos

   A breathtaking view of state-of-the-art technology for projects ranging from simple awnings to dome stadiums.More

6. Trompe L'Oeil: Italy Ancient and Modern

   Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad

   For centuries Italy has exuded a mythical aura: in no other country do antiquity and modernity, history, art, landscape, and the graceful art of living seem to merge and coexist with such simple elegance as in this land steeped in over two millennia of cultural heritage.More

7. Sourcebook of Scandinavian Furniture: Designs for the 21st Century

   Judith Gura

   The five countries known collectively as Scandinavia have been the source of some of the most important furniture designs of the twentieth century.More

8. Textiles in America, 1650-1870

   Florence M. Montgomery, Linda Eaton

   Reissue

   First published in 1984, this remains the definitive study of textiles as they were used in early American homes.More

9. Theory of Mouldings

   C. Howard Walker, Richard Sammons

   With the revival of interest in traditional design, practitioners, students, and historians have begun to study and use the vocabulary of forms that so enriched our architectural heritage.More

10. The Furniture of Sam Maloof

    Jeremy Adamson

    An exploration of the life and work of America’s most distinguished craftsman.More

11. Trompe L'Oeil: Grisaille: Architecture & Drapery

    Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad

    All trompe l’oeil painting uses light and shadow to create illusory forms and surfaces.More

12. Inquiry by Design: Environment/Behavior/Neuroscience in Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Planning

    John Zeisel, John P. Eberhard

    This update of a classic text folds the new field of neuroscience for design into well-established environment-behavior (E-B) methods and approaches.More

13. Frances Elkins: Interior Design

    Stephen M. Salny, Albert Hadley

    The career of Frances Adler Elkins (1888-1953), sister of renowned Chicago architect David Adler, spanned more than three decades.More

14. Sourcebook of Modern Furniture

    Jerryll Habegger, Joseph H. Osman

    Third Edition

    A comprehensive guide to the most influential furniture and lighting designs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, updated and expanded, with color throughout.More

15. Trompe L'Oeil: Sky and Sea

    Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad

    Sky and sea are the trompe l'oeil painter's favorite motifs for contemporary interiors.More