paperback 264pp, pub 1/5/2021, Lars Muller, Silvia Benedito The relation, in all its complexity of landscape and land and atmosphere, the nature of weather as factor and force. The finally inevitable, atmosphere in the full council of spheres. Includes the case studies of 18th century French garden design to contemporary work, including Chnadigarh. Atmosphere as threshold, atmosphere as program, atmosphere as situation, atmosphere as conrast.

288pp, large cloth ed, Die Gestalten, editors Openhouse published 12/1/20 Includes many of the best new residential designers - Pawson Vervoordt, Caruncho, Silvestrin - but also Lautner, Neutra, Mies, Mallet-Stevens. A very fine collection, time and time.

280 pp slipcased. Full color study of the furniture Kuma has designed for his projects, from Missoni to residential and retail.

230pp, Lovely study of Milanese designer, Magistretti, from the University archives in Lausanne, of his work from 1960 to 2000.

210 pp, cloth edition, Stockholm. First study of the Icelandic firm, doing work from visitor centers, to glacial lookout towers, to rugged Icelandic villas, color and some drawings. The remarkable alliance of nature and design on this volcanic, bustling island.

Boxed in slim metal case, ultramarine blue on hexagonal body

Extra soft, sold in set of 3, ready to erase!

A fine new study of Miralles, via drawings, sketches, plans and linking with buildings and projects. A study of process, the brillianr ways of Miralles.

A wonderful new piece from Alessi, for children. DORAFF, 2020, design Ben van Berkel, Alessi, Italy , boxed, 26”x21”x11”, $250 The Doraff has come, travelling from Italy, in red, yellow and light blue shades - a lovely new figure of design by the Dutch architect Van Berkel and his UNStudio. It is a child’s furniture, a piece that can flip from a loyal pup to a peering giraffe, a table, a top, a seat, a pal. To each, one’s own Doraff.

Price includes shipping. Doonan has worked with Diana Vreeland and the Met, Barneys and Slate, been a judge on Making It, and now has written a very cool little pocket guide, a literary GPS, to what he calls Yourself. With six chapters (werk, people, love, decor, family, style) and irrepressible momentum, he bounds through everything, coming out each time with be yourself, and proof to boot. “ If the glove fits, you must buy it.” As he writes, “I am not trying to sell you me, I am trying to sell you, you.” Very good, he keeps feet out of any muck, off the phone and on the beat.

224 pp, cloth ed, full color, William Morgan, PAP Press, surveys the newest relation of design and architecture and the mountains and the snow. Projects in Finland, Austria, Norway, Scotland Connecticut, Vermont, Utah, Chile, Jaoan, Noa Scotia

Motifs set in motion, by the brilliance that brought us the Poemotion trilogy, Takahiro Kurashima. It is a carnival, entering Moirémotion, with movement in every space. The great ingenious spirit of Kurashima and moire. 96 pp, hardcover.

A good book, a true book, is a brave one. It comes alone. Such is Materialising Colour, a brilliant new title, from Phaidon, presenting the color sense, the color history and philosophy of Giulio Ridolfo. Ridolfo is perhaps the most acclaimed design colourist in the world - it is not every table that might even know what that could mean. He is a metaphysic to color, an anthropologist to color, an explorer and historian and botanist to color. He sees colour as music, as a garden, as a story, as a context, as a moment in time, as a food and physic. He is the doctor that you call when you must have the colour be perfect. The famous Danish textile company Kvadrat has taken his work to the heart of their production. To Ridolfo, colour is the breath of the land, of the seasons and the soil and the water and the light - and that is the breadth of this book. Traveling from Friuli, his home in Northern Italy, to quarries and the Scandinavian sea, to Denmark and India, he hunts, almost as a forager, for the intimate conditions of colour. It is the long way, the complicated, long way to the soul of things. This is such a book.

Silver or black - designed by Jasper Morrison, brushed aluminum,sturdy, full, direct. This pen you can feel the design, a quiet beauty. $79, in a fancy box