Chosen Books

Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
2000 books
In Praise of Architecture
Gio Ponti
Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art
Griselda Pollock
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
Justin Pollard et al.
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
Roman by Polanski
Roman Polanski
Achille Castiglioni
Sergio Polano
King of Fashion: The Autobiography of Paul Poiret
Paul Poiret
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe
The Atomic Age Opens
Pocket Books
The Prisons (Le Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Dunbar: Fine Furniture of the 1950s
Leslie Piña
Design Revolution
Emily Pilloton
Tools of the Imagination
Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino, ed.
Walter Pichler
Walter Pichler et al.
Jewels and Jewellery
Clare Phillips
Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings, Vol. 1, 1894–1930
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, ed.
Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
Nikolaus Pevsner
Schriftenatlas
Ludwig Petzendorfer
Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
Philippe Perrot
Les Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve, 2nd edition (Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture)
Claude Perrault
Rookledge’s International Typefinder
Christopher Perfect et al.
Elsa Peretti: Fifteen of My Fifty with Tiffany
Elsa Peretti
Life: A User’s Manual
Georges Perec
Les choses: Une histoire des années soixante (Things: A Story of the Sixties)
Georges Perec
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
Jacques Pépin
Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book
Harvey Penick
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