Every month we bring you some of the best interior design books that we can find. Here is our shortlist for 5 of the Best Interior Design Books for you to check out this October. We’ve selected these titles based on customer reviews, what’s been trending on social media and what’s hot in the press. Find them all at the GDC interiors Book Collection.

One Man’s Folly: The Exceptional Houses of Furlow Gatewood

By Julia Reed
Published by Rizzoli International Publications, RRP £37.50
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Furlow Gatewood is a quintessential Southern gentleman and his beloved property in bucolic Americus, Georgia has absorbed him for over six decades. The four intimate dwellings exemplify various southern architectural traditions – from a mid-nineteenth-century Gothic to Palladian. Gatewood shares his personal reflections on how he has created this charming and unique world for himself tailored to his refined sensibility. Captured in thoughtful photographs, his seductive spaces are the very model of a relaxed Arcadian style.

Jean-Louis Deniot: Interiors

By Diane Dorrans Saeks
Published by Rizzoli International Publications, RRP £40
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This is the first book on the work of a designer whose refined classical interiors are increasingly considered the epitome of French style. Deniot is first and foremost an architect. His chief concern is to ensure that the interior architecture of his rooms are harmonious before giving a neoclassical approach to the decor. His style is highly individual and includes contemporary art and custom-made furniture, yet his rooms always look comfortable and are never overly formal or trendy.

Private Houses of France: Living with History

By Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
Published by Flammarion, RRP: £55
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Twelve elegant French houses are illustrated including the Château de Champchevrier and Hubert de Givenchy’s elegant Parisian townhouse that is imbued with grandeur and comfort in the style of Napolean III. Key periods of French decoration are represented by the featured houses that are illustrated with specially commissioned photography.

The Drawing Room: English Country House Decoration

By Jeremy Musson with forward by Julian Fellowes
Published by Rizzoli International Publications, RRP £37.50
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Fifty of the finest drawing rooms of country houses and historic townhouses – many still in private hands – including Althorp, Attingham, and Knepp Castle are presented in this survey of the history of English decorating from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the work of famous designers such as David Hicks, Nancy Lancaster, John Fowler, and David Mlinaric. Read our review of this book.

Great Houses of England and Wales

By Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes
Published by Laurence King, RRP £40
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This is a history of the most notable houses in England and Wales and their occupants, seen as integral to the houses they created, where their descendants, in many cases, still live today. The original photographs show the unexpected as well as the familiar – the private rooms and the servants’ quarters as well as the grand exteriors and state rooms, the gardens and vast landscapes. Some of the most splendid examples of English art and architecture are included, illustrating the work of Inigo Jones, John Vanbrugh, Thomas Chippendale, Robert Adam and Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.

 

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