2023 Holiday Gift Guide for Book Lovers
As a long-time lover of design and the decorative arts (as well as being your resident design professional!), this holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a quick go-to guide for the fellow design enthusiasts in your life!
In this series, I’ll present a curated mix of unique items to satisfy everyone on your nice list from the hostess with the mostest to the good boys who’ve managed to stay out of the doghouse this year! This fourth installation is all about gifts for book lovers.
The ones who had a library card and used it regularly, I see you- I am you 🥹
(bonus points if you memorized the number when you were 10 like I did 😅)
However, even if that’s not your niche - I’ve still got you covered!
Hoping this list is helpful and makes this season a bit more merry and bright
xo Cherish-Joie xo
For Book Lovers
India Mahdavi (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $60.45
This long-overdue monograph of world-renowned designer India Mahdavi offers an unprecedented glimpse into the artist’s creative process and highlights the depth and breadth of Mahdavi’s unique and acclaimed body of work. I
India Mahdavi, often called the grande dame of color, is the interior designer behind singular spaces such as The Gallery at Sketch London—named the most Instagrammed restaurant in the world. Applying her unique sense of color, pattern, and style to each of her projects, Mahdavi has garnered top design awards and inspired numerous trends— earning acclaim around the world.
Haute Bohemians (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $41.99
(additional $14 coupon available as of 11/22/23)
Miguel Flores-Vianna, one of the world’s most fashionable photographers of interiors and lifestyle, documents the original taste of twenty contemporary bohemians.
“My dear friend Miguel Flores-Vianna’s new book Haute Bohemians is the most gorgeous and inspiring book I’ve ever seen. His stunning photographs are of houses that are both beyond chic and yet at the same time unbelievably warm and personal.” — Ina Garten
James Turrell: A Retrospective (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $62.99
This definitive book illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell’s incredibly diverse and exciting body of work. Whether projecting shapes on a flat wall or into the corner of a gallery space, Turrell is perpetually asking us to "go inside and greet the light".
Enhanced by thoughtful essays and an illuminating interview with the artist, this monograph explores every aspect of Turrell’s career―from his early geometric light projections, prints and drawings, through his installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, to two-dimensional experiments with holograms.
How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $37.99
In the modern home, it matters less whether your interior is perfectly appointed and more if it’s authentically personal, unique, and filled with the objects you feel a connection to. Through inspiring home tours and practical advice on how and what to collect, Sight Unseen editors Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer take you on an educational and highly visual journey through the questions at the core of their design philosophy: What makes an object worth having? + How do our objects impact our lives?
Kelly Wearstler : Evocative Style (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $41.99
Celebrated for luxurious interiors that capture the swankiness of old-world Hollywood with a modern pop sensibility, Wearstler is known for her decadent designs of residences and boutique hotels. Her ornate interiors are distinctive for layers of bold textures, patterns, and rich colors juxtaposed with lustrous surfaces, adding up to a whimsical and elegant look that has been called "mod baroque."
Full of ideas and with beautiful images of many never-before-photographed interiors, Kelly Wearstler: Evocative Style is an inspirational look at the designer's inventive work. Filled with new work, this volume is a must for other designers and homeowners looking for elegant design inspiration and ideas.
Living in Color: Color in Contemporary Interior Design (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $29.99
An inspirational visual journey along the color spectrum, brought to life via the best contemporary residential interior design. Tap into the growing trend for injecting color into home décor with this elegant, thoughtful selection of interiors in every shade and hue. Organized by color – from the purest white to the deepest black, from the hottest pinks, oranges, and reds, to the coolest greens and tranquil blues in between – Living in Color explores and celebrates the current trend for vivid accents and vibrant transformations of our domestic spaces, whatever their size and wherever their location.
Wonderland: Adventures in Decorating
(Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $35.71
Follow rising star designer Summer Thornton down the rabbit hole into a wonderland of color and pattern in her very first book of interiors. Summer Thornton believes in designing with the wildest abandon: her world is one of nickel tubs, marble fireplaces, whimsical textiles, surprising patterns, and secret gardens. Often described as maximalist with a modern, fresh sensibility, Thornton manages to achieve highly polished, sophisticated interiors that indulge in a lighthearted, almost irreverent sense of whimsy. In her first book, she will inspire readers to follow their creative impulses and make their own rules.
Art Life by Sig Bergamin (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $105.00
Architect and designer Sig Bergamin is known for his eclectic vision and vivid interiors that are the perfect mélanges of chic. A constant traveller, Bergamin loves collecting treasures wherever he goes―totems that inspire and evolve his craft. He is also an avid art collector, a tendency that comes across in each of his meticulously designed spaces, where Warhols, Hirsts and Lichtensteins are seamlessly blended with minimalist and maximalist decor from around the world.
Everything: A Maximalist Style Guide (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $41.85
A style that embraces the all-out: beautiful colour palettes, luxurious textiles, patterns and embellishment. Maximalism is the epitome of passion, one in which Scandi-style, stripped bare and pared-back interiors have no place. Abigail Ahern guides us through the sea change in the world of interiors as the pendulum swings away from minimalism, over to our increasing desire for self-expression and optimism. Learn how to break the 'rules' of interior design, play fast and loose with different periods in a single room and have fun. Maximalism allows you to dip into colour palettes and any decade or style, with the effect of stirring up emotions and creating a bedazzling space you'd never want to leave.
The Parisians: Tastemakers at Home (Hardcover)
Sold by Amazon for $74.90
Twenty-five world-class designers invite us inside their private French residences, providing intimate access to their creative universe and rich inspiration for home style. Stepping inside the private residences of France's leading tastemakers provides unrivaled inspiration for interiors with a personal flair. From a modernist retreat to an urban-pop apartment, and from an eclectic cabinet of curiosities to an eighteenth-century hôtel particulier, each ambiance demonstrates a perfect mastery of associations between color, pattern, volume, material, and decorative genius.
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