Each seasonal chapter returns to four sections: “What’s in Season,” “At the Table,” “Celebrating the Season,” and a closing to-do list. There are ideas for displaying flowers and produce, arranging a table, and making decorations with natural materials. Photographs move between the garden, kitchen, and dining table, with hand-drawn illustrations alongside. The details range from summer tomatoes and autumn dahlias to dried citrus garlands and winter menus.

Christene Barberich contributes the foreword, while guest voices include cook and author Alison Roman, Sarah and Sohail Zandi of Brushland Eating House, and April Valencia of Masa Memory. The 280-page hardcover offers a useful starting point for planning a gathering or bringing something of the season indoors. It also makes an appealing host gift, with plenty to revisit as the year turns.

The entries are arranged alphabetically by architect, pairing exterior and interior photographs with short texts. Among the houses are Fernanda Canales’s Casa Terreno, Charles and Ray Eames’s Case Study House No. 8, and Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen’s Casa Luna. Photographs move from the buildings and their surroundings into living rooms, courtyards, stairways, and book-lined interiors, giving readers plenty to examine at different scales.

A foreword by Dutch architect Francine Houben introduces the relationship between home and professional practice. An illustrated chronology at the back offers another way through the collection, placing the houses in sequence by date. Across 352 pages, this book of architects’ own homes provides a broad set of references for anyone interested in residential architecture—or gathering ideas for a home of their own.

New diagrams separate structural frames, walls, and interiors so their construction is easy to follow. Archival sketches show layouts taking shape by hand. Across six chapters, the book connects the couple’s residential architecture with their work in furniture, textiles, toys, and graphics. A dedicated chapter examines their own home, Case Study House No. 8, through newly commissioned photography and material from the Eames Office archive.

The 288-page hardcover includes contributions by Catherine Ince and forewords by Norman Foster and Eames Demetrios. Its tall cover carries a blue cross and red lettering, with further geometric graphics across the back. For readers interested in mid-century homes, it offers a detailed look at the Eameses’ use of prefabricated components and flexible living spaces.

Coastal gardens have to work with salt, wind, exposure, shifting light, sandy soil, rocky ground, and long views. The book looks at those conditions through four themes: cliffside gardens, resilient planting, gardens that frame ocean views, and gardens on the beach.

Each garden is presented through large color photographs, concise texts, and captions that add planting and design details. The selection includes a wide range of climates and locations, from California and Sweden to Britain, Australia, and the Mediterranean. Featured designers include Bernard Trainor, Ulf Nordfjell, Paul Bangay, Louis Benech, Raymond Jungles, Rees Roberts + Partners, and STIMSON.

This is a strong book for readers interested in garden design, landscape architecture, planting, coastal homes, and outdoor spaces that respond to their site. It works as a reference for home gardeners and designers, and as a visual book for anyone drawn to architecture, landscape, and life near the water.

The book is set at Home Farm, a countryside house designed for family meals, guests, and daily life around the kitchen and table. The recipes follow the seasons, moving from spring vegetables and summer meals outdoors to autumn dishes and winter cooking for longer evenings at home.

The food is practical, generous, and made for sharing: Easter lamb, wild mushroom risotto, roast carrots with tahini dressing, fish pie, saffron chicken tagine, fruit tarts, ice cream, and other dishes from the Pawson family’s own cooking and entertaining repertoire.

Photography runs throughout the book, showing both the finished dishes and the spaces where they are prepared and served: the kitchen, dining room, garden, table settings, materials, and changing light at Home Farm. For readers interested in architecture, the book offers a close look at how a carefully designed house supports ordinary rituals: cooking, gathering, eating, and living with the seasons.

Braun: Designed to Keep tells the story of the German electronics company founded in 1921, and how it became one of the most influential names in modern product design. Published by Phaidon, the book gathers more than 500 images, including new photography of Braun’s iconic products, archival drawings, advertisements, internal documents, and correspondence. It also looks at the people behind the company’s design culture, from leadership teams to designers, placing Braun’s work within the broader history of postwar Germany and everyday life.

Compact and easy to dip into, this volume works as both a survey and a source of ideas. It captures a corner of design culture that often gets treated as novelty, but here feels surprisingly revealing. The objects and spaces featured in these pages say as much about human taste and domestic life as they do about pets themselves.

The homes featured here rely on clarity of form and restraint of palette, but never feel closed off. Long portals, deep porches, courtyards, and expanses of glass pull the landscape directly into daily life. Adobe sits comfortably beside steel and glass, not as a nostalgic gesture but as a practical and cultural material—adapted to modern needs without losing its roots.

Casey Dunn’s photographs give these spaces room to breathe. The images linger on shadows, thresholds, and the way art and architecture share the same visual language. What comes through most clearly is a sense of place: architecture shaped by climate and culture, but unafraid of abstraction or rigor. A book for anyone interested in how modernism can be both precise and deeply connected to the land.

Breuer’s Bohemia follows the homes he designed in Connecticut and Massachusetts from the 1950s through the ’70s, and it treats them as more than isolated “great houses.” They’re part of a living scene: clients who became friends, weekends that turned into salons, and a tight circle that pulled architecture into the same room as art and literature. Rufus and Leslie Stillman and Andrew and Jamie Gagarin are at the center of it, with the larger cast orbiting nearby—Alexander Calder, Arthur Miller, Francine du Plessix Gray, Philip Roth, William Styron.

James Crump tells the story with the instincts of a filmmaker (his documentary shares the title), using original research and interviews to bring voices back into the rooms. The book is heavy on imagery—vintage shots, contemporary photography, and archival material you don’t usually see—which makes the houses feel less like icons and more like places where people argued, hosted, retreated, and kept building a version of postwar culture around the table.

Breuer’s Bohemia follows the homes he designed in Connecticut and Massachusetts from the 1950s through the ’70s, and it treats them as more than isolated “great houses.” They’re part of a living scene: clients who became friends, weekends that turned into salons, and a tight circle that pulled architecture into the same room as art and literature. Rufus and Leslie Stillman and Andrew and Jamie Gagarin are at the center of it, with the larger cast orbiting nearby—Alexander Calder, Arthur Miller, Francine du Plessix Gray, Philip Roth, William Styron.

James Crump tells the story with the instincts of a filmmaker (his documentary shares the title), using original research and interviews to bring voices back into the rooms. The book is heavy on imagery—vintage shots, contemporary photography, and archival material you don’t usually see—which makes the houses feel less like icons and more like places where people argued, hosted, retreated, and kept building a version of postwar culture around the table.