Allegra Hicks: An Eye For Design by Allegra Hicks

Allegra Hicks: An Eye for Design (Abrams) examines textile, interior, and fashion designer Allegra Hicks’ approach to design and luxury. Season by season, Hicks presents her original textile and pattern designs alongside beautiful photography of interiors, landscapes, and unexpected points of nature. Essays on design, color, and seasonal elements will inspire readers to look at interiors and fabrics in a new and different way. Pairing original textile and pattern designs with inspiring photography of interiors and landscapes, the book is an internal voyage through Allegra Hicks’ mind.

At Home by Suzanne Rheinstein

Leading interior designer and owner of Hollyhock, Los Angeles’s renowned antiques and decorative arts mecca, Suzanne Rheinstein is known for her relaxed, elegant style. Beautifully photographed, this inspiring volume, called At Home (Rizzoli) shows examples of her work that exemplify her talent for creating attractive homes that make living and entertaining extremely pleasurable.

American Fashion Designers At Home by Rima Suqi

American Fashion Designers at Home (Assouline) offers an intimate look into the private quarters of more than 100 members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America - including Diane von Furstenburg, Johnson Hartig, Derek Lam, Bob Mackie, Cynthia Rowley, and Kate Spade - offering a stunning photographic tour of the domestic side of fashion. Through vivid photographs, the book explores eclectic domiciles from the minimal chic to the bold and exotic, from compact one-bedrooms to sprawling estates, and discovers how designers’ dwellings often become extensions of their métier.

The Language Of Interior Design by Alexa Hampton

In The Language of Interior Design (Clarkson Potter), Hampton provides a tour of stunning residences from her own portfolio. Eighteen classic spaces illustrate in rich detail the elements that govern cultivated design - contrast, proportion, color, and balance. Hampton explains how she tailored each space to meet her clients’ needs while retaining a timeless aesthetic, and she provides design expertise on everything from fabric schemes to the particulars of paint. The spaces here speak the language of design - a language that, under Hampton’s tutelage, anyone can master.