The Book Company: New Products - Reference

Danish Design

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:36:36 +0000

Danish design is entering a new chapter. Expressive, curious, and alive with possibility, a new generation is shaping the objects and spaces we live with—and expanding our understanding of what Danish design can be.

Danish Design celebrates the people, ideas, and cr..

Price: $55.00

Saints, Skulls, and Secret Societies (Understanding Cemetery Symbolism)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:55:38 +0000

Part history and decoding, part symbolism and artistry, and part macabre this book celebrates cemeteries and cemetery symbolism.

Hundreds of different symbols adorn headstones and are rich with symbolic meaning that can tell us so much about the deceased and the times in wh..

Price: $24.99

Making Architecture Through Being Human (A Handbook of Design Ideas)

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:30:09 +0000

This book is a reference and companion book for architectural foundation and design studios. It presents basic ideas that have developed through humans interacting with our world and each other. It focuses on their application to architecture and the design of the built environment.

Price: $166.99

Navigating the Landscapes of Design Research (Finding Your Way)

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:45:25 +0000

This book provides emerging and established designers and design educators, along with their collaborators, with a means to understand how and why the landscape of design research has come to exist as it does, and how and why its various destinations and pathways connect. The book will be of in..

Price: $233.99

Type. A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles. 1455-Today. 45th Ed. (Bi-Lingual Edition)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:57:12 +0000

This comprehensive and completely updated collection offers a thorough overview of typeface design from 1455 to the present day. A series of exquisitely designed catalogues traces the evolution of the printed letter via specimens in roman, italic, bold, semibold, narrow..

Price: $30.00

Modernist Design (A Complete Sourcebook)

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:30:56 +0000

The powerful aesthetic and philosophical framework that modernism ushered in during the early part of the twentieth century revolutionized the built world, transformed our living spaces and lifestyles, and fundamentally changed the way we think about..
Price: $60.00

Lingerie (Two Centuries of Luscious Design)

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:10:33 +0000

Peek into the most personal clothing in a woman’s boudoir—the undergarments designed to shape, conceal, enhance, and reveal the body to create a silhouette for outerwear fashions from 1770 to 1970. From corsets to negligees to reverse thongs, hundreds of fascinating garments are shown in over 500 ..
Price: $30.00

Creative Practice Inquiry in Architecture

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:31:37 +0000

This collection introduces, illustrates, and advances fresh ideas about creative practice inquiry in architecture. It concerns how architects can use their distinctive skills, habits, and values to advance professional insight, and how such insights can be extended to make wider contributions t..
Price: $189.99

Labels of Empire (Textile Trademarks • Windows Into India In The Time Of The Raj)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:52:06 +0000

It was said that at one time Great Britain clothed the world. In the 1880s, when the British textile industry was at its most prosperous to date, much of the world’s population wore clothing made from fabric produced in the mills of Lancashire. From 1910 to 1913 alone, seven billion yards of cl..
Price: $75.00

Ductile Design of Steel Structures, Third Edition

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:22:40 +0000

A completely revised and updated in-depth guide to the requirements central to earthquake-resistant design of steel structures

Ductile Design of Steel Structures, Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to address the extensive advancements made in the industry over the pa..
Price: $100.00