INSPIRATION by Tricia Guild

This book is like a millions blinks of the human eye ball. It's a lovely book filled with color, imagery, objects, artists, and designers.

Tricia Guild founded Designers Guild in London in 1970, which has become one of the most influential and creative forces in the world of interior design. Her book, INSPIRATION has case studies on designers such as Arne Jacobson, sections on subjects like Modern Furniture, and blurbs on lovely cities such as Venice. She narrates the the book through gorgeous images, all color coordinated. From tiny thumbnails to enlarge detail of images, she stimulates the viewer through captivating all of her passions. From art & music, to architecture and designs, food, flowers & gardens, texture & form, light and shadows, and color. It is beautiful.

Sibella Court's ETCETERA etc.

Sibella Court's ETCETERA etc.

This is definitely one of my favorite books. When I first stumbled across it, I was caught breathless. I found another soul as obsessed with color as me! Everything about the book screams to me. Court has a strong grasp of design and executes spaces flawlessly. I love the muted colors, textures, fabrics, displays, objects, artifacts... It's inspiring. Even the pages, the layout and design of the book, the pallate, and the graphics are gorgeous. It shows the creative process of an artist in a really rough and honest way.

I really appreciate her appreciation of objects being art in the their own right. For example she has lined up pieces of different barbed wire simply on a shelf as a texture. Unexpected and truly perfect.

If you have not seen this book yet, you must! It's absolutely divine. Sibella runs The Society Inc, a store in Sydney, Australia. Her shop is more of a gallery, and she changes her palette every three months and re-curates the entire space accordingly. Definitely on my list of places to visit!