Five Design Books Worth Gift-Wrapping

By James Gaddy

Nov. 28, 2014 11:05 a.m. ET

 

This holiday season, give the design junkie in your life the gift of inspiration, found in abundance in these coffee-table-worthy tomes

WHEN YOU’RE SEEKING a gift for a design junkie, it’s easy to get seduced by a book about interiors: Those handsome, hefty hardbacks almost feel bespoke. But unless you have time to do more than a quick flip-through before you buy, it’s not always clear which ones offer real insight. The best volumes should tell you how to source what you’re seeing (where the decorator found a covetable André Arbus desk, for example) or demystify the design process—by, say, outlining a unique way to use door frames and crown moldings to create a memorable view. How to ensure that your claim on your loved ones’ coffee tables isn’t just another collection of pretty pictures? Here, we recommend five titles that provide more than a place to rest a remote. Wrap them up.

 

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