If the Home Design Trends: Smaller, Closer, More Urban come to pass then Small Interiors is the design book for the inside of that smaller house. The official blurb concurs; “Living in small spaces is the wave of the future, as cities become more crowded and the drive to live in more ecologically friendly ways grows. Small Interiors offers a wide variety of beautifully illustrated case studies of ingeniously designed small spaces. These homes are streamlined inside and out, with dozens of never-before-seen solutions in storage plus an array of space-saving furniture and fixtures. With everything from full-color photos to full technical specifications, Small Interiors proves that good things do come in small packages.”. Small Interiors is due in February. Hardcover, 240 pages, 77 black and white illustrations, 320 color illustrations, $26.37 at Amazon.

+ Small Interiors at Amazon

French design book publisher Bernard Chauveau Editeur sent us an email for this “important book about the contemporary ceramics creations in Craft Limoges”. Published in french but with english texts, The Ceramic Experience, L’Expérience de la Céramique, has an evocative subtitle, the arts of fire and earth (les arts du feu et de la terre) that piqued my curiousity. The book is a visual reference presenting the fruit of fifteen years of ceramic creation at the Center of research for ceramics and enamel applications in art and design in Limoges, France. Since 1993, the center has brought together over sixty international artists, designers, visual artists and architects “to adopt ceramic as their means of creation and expression and to experiment with the material and its limits to the full.”. Artists such as Ron Arad, Matali Crasset, Ross Lovegrove, David Lynch, Ingo Maurer, and Martin Szekely. It won’t be easy to get outside of France, but it is listed at Amazon.fr. Hardcover, 224 pages, 220 photos, 57 euros at Amazon.fr.

+ L’Expérience de la Céramique at Amazon.fr