For this issue, instead of picking just one book that’s on our list, we wanted to share our favorite new website… www.designersandbooks.com.

With our newly designed showroom space in Manhattan, we’ve chosen to share a New York architecture classic. This book by Koolhaas depicts the vibrance of Manhattan and the dynamic relationship between its architecture and culture.

The global changes taking place in the architectural world are crystallizing right now in Japan, with the past five years being considered one of the most innovative periods in current Japanese design history. Observed by architects and designers from around the world, these changes are illustrated and articulated in New Japan Architecture.

Like Phaidon’s Le Corbusier Le Grand or Taschen’s Case Study Houses, one of our favorite literary design indulgences is the recently released The Story of Eames Furniture by Marilyn Neuhart with John Neuhart.