With a foreword by her wife Roxane Gay, Debbie Millman’s Why Design Matters contains over 80 of the writer, designer, and curator’s best interviews from her beloved podcast Design Matters. The richly ...

Sometime in the mid–17th century, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote, “The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he cannot stay quietly in his room.” Some 400 years later, ...

There’s plenty to read in this batch of new books, but feel free to declare any of them your newest pretty picture book. Architecture and design books out just in time for gift-giving include a crop ...

It’s easy, for me at least, to be cynical about the state of design. Our visual environment can feel bland, everything from brands to buildings homogenized around similar styles. The ever-impending AI ...

This year was a particularly great year for books that seemed long overdue, including monographs on Alexander Girard, Rosario Candela, and Donald Judd — specifically one dedicated to his furniture ...

A roundup of publications highlights new findings about the past and present. Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece, by Alex Beam. Random House, ...

For those hunting for something that will appeal to the design or architecture enthusiasts on their holiday gift lists, a bevy of new books give a glimpse into both public and private spaces in ...

Book tours and author signings may have gotten canceled or postponed, but new titles are still being released. Several new architecture and design books are out, showing off the collected works of ...

The editors of Robb Report scour the globe (and the Internet) for the best of the best and only endorse products we love—and think you’ll love, too. If you purchase a product or service through a link ...

The standards for classifying good or terrible architecture are usefulness and beauty, or what we commonly refer to as practicality and aesthetics. However, practicality might quickly direct us toward ...