Allegra Hicks has An Eye for Design!

We are just loving Allegra Hicks’ book, An Eye for Design! Using the sea­sons Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer as a frame­work, she and pho­tog­ra­pher Emanuele Mas­cioni, and cre­ative director Antonio Mon­freda present her orig­inal tex­tile and pat­tern designs along­side beau­tiful photos of inte­riors, land­scapes, and unusual points of nature. The coffee table book is filled with big, col­orful images of fab­rics, inte­riors, rocks, and plants. There are far more pho­tographs than writ­ings, but speckled throughout the 224 page book, Allegra Hicks very care­fully and poet­i­cally explains (and shows) her design philoso­phies and inspi­ra­tions. Great book—we love it!

London-​​based Allegra Hicks and her Italian Fiat (she is from Turin, Italy).

“an Ital­ianate garden about to become col­orful and ripe … a per­fect palette for an interior”

an embroi­dered dress and its inspi­ra­tion, an earth­quake dam­aged road

as a small child, her par­ents taught her to look at things … “not just the world around me, but to be con­scious under­standing it.”

Eye for Design was also the first book listed in a recent HGTV Design Hap­pens blog post: What We’re Reading: Top 20 Coffee Table Books.

And more sug­ges­tions for home design coffee table books can be found in the SFGate​.com post: New home design coffee table books.

You’ll really enjoy her insight and all of the beau­tiful images of designs and inspi­ra­tions found in this great book!