5 Books to Add to Your Library (Now)

I books that we read and that we keep in our homes tell a lot about us. However, constantly keeping up with the latest releases is not always an easy task. But if you want to enrich yours bookshelf staff and expand your knowledge with unique volumes of their kind, you are in the right place. Below, you will find a selection of unmissable books which will not only add value to your collection, but will also offer you tons of new prospectives and stimuli for the mind.

In view of Paris Games 2024Assouline will publish a beautiful book on the Olympics: The Last Heroes: 100 Moments of Olympics Legend. A book that tells the 100 most crucial moments in the history of the Summer Olympics with photo breathtaking, enclosing the most scenes memorableemotional and electrifying stories from over 100 years of Games history.

From great celebrations to deep disappointments, from hardships to triumphs, readers will immerse themselves in the electric energy of symbolic events such as the first opening ceremony of the London Games in 1908; the exultation of Jesse Owens who crosses the finish line to receive his fourth gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Games, silencing the dogma of the Reich; the roaring crowd that incites Derek Redmond while being helped on the track by his father following a devastating injury, and many other glimpses of humanity brought to light during the Olympic historyThe book will be available in the Classic Collection and in a limited edition of 100 copies in special edition.

For lovers ofinterior designor of beauty in general, ICON recommends instead Zeynep Fadillioglu: Luxury Redefined. A comprehensive look at the Turkish interior designer’s most surprising projects Zeynep Fadillioglu, such as the largest luxury hotel in Istanbul or a suggestive hyper-modern and minimalist mosque. His works express a bold contemporary sophistication and a modern understanding of traditional values, not least known for their rich use of materials and fusion of until e craftsmanship. Born and raised in Istanbul, Fadillioglu is definitely a professional to know; she studied computer science and then art history and design at the Inchbald School of Design in London before starting her own design company in Istanbul.

Today, it is one of designer most sought-after both at home and abroad. Her thoughtful, creative and interdisciplinary approach to interior design unites history, community, city, climate and culture with meticulous attention to detail and storytelling. Printed in Italy, this monography presents a selection of the best projects of Fadillioglurevealing the inspiration that has made his work in demand from London and New York to Bombay and Qatar. Written in the first person, the volume provides an intimate insight into an approach intercultural to design with unique nuances that combines classic and contemporary, responding to the complex links between nature, heritage, culture, craftsmanship and art. Among other things, the book features never-before-published photographs and captivating original illustrations.

Staying on the design front, we also recommend Museum Seed. The Futurabilityof Cultural Places; the new book by Ico Best e Mara Servetto which explores the future evolution of cultural spaces from the point of view of design and architecture. “In this book – commented Migliore and Servetto – a new concept of places of culture and aggregation takes shape, which revolves around the concept that we like to define ‘Museum Seed’. A call to cultural responsibility in terms of design. A place of culture, like a seed, must be capable of being grafted into the urban and social fabric of the surrounding area to become an activator of new behaviors”.

Il volume aims to broaden the investigation by calling upon multiple voices of the world of culture. Directors, curators, collectors, academics, architects, designers, journalists and psychologists discuss the topic of the future of spaces for culture. Many contributions from personalities from the world of culture and design, such as: Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the National Museum of Digital Art; the architect Giampiero Bosoni, professor at the Polytechnic of Milan; Marco Carminati, art historian and journalist; and many others.

From design, let’s now move on to modawith Born in Oasi Zegna. A written and visual story that intends to bring the ethics of the maison – an ethic that brings together people and the environment, values ​​and well-being, in a vertically integrated system of actions – to the world, and to make the seeds of these principles germinate again and again. With a text by Fix Obasiillustrations by Paolo Bacilieri, Cecilia Carlstedt, Giuseppe Ragazzini and the creative direction of Laura Decaminada, Born in Oasi Zegna puts the values ​​of the brand into writing, embodying its spirit in an unexpected form, that of a book and not of a dress.

For those who don’t know, Oasi Zegna symbolizes and materializes all this. A unique model of environmental awareness with a territory that extends for over 100 km2 in the Biella Alps which collects and preserves species and vegetation. A monument to the quality of life and attention to future generations as an expression of the highest industrial quality. In short, Oasi Zegna is the home of Zegna values. The center of everything, the reason for its being and the seed of future developments. It is the testimony of a real and engaging authenticity. In Zegna parlance: “the second best thing we do is clothing. The first is the Oasi Zegna”.

And if we talk about fashion books, we cannot fail to mention the first book by the new creative director of Valentino, Alexander Michael. The visionary designer shares his thoughts on fashion philosophy in book: The life of forms. Philosophy of reenchantment. Written together with the philosopher Emanuele Cocciathe manual explores the complex and delicate relationship between images, forms, objects and individuals. “The fashion shapes they are not only tools for knowing the world and ourselves. They are also amulets with which we invent and experience new freedoms. Freedom to resurrect possibilities that have been set aside. Freedom to construct new meanings”.