MATERIAL MATTERS BOOK recomMendations




Material Matters recently staged a pop-up bookstore at London’s Surface Design Show, which saw us select 16 recommended titles. All of the books listed below are avaialble to buy directly from Material Matters - email for more details.

Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
By Glenn Adamson

Show Me The Bodies: How we let Grenfell happen
By Peter Apps

Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
By Aaron Betsky

Lives in Architecture
By Nigel Coates

The White Road: Journey into Obsession
By Edmund de Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
By Edmund de Waal

Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future
By Kate Franklin and Caroline Till

Materials: An Environmental Primer
Edited by Hattie Hartman and Jo Jack Williams

Design a Healthy Home: 100 Ways to Transform Your Space for Physical and Mental Wellbeing
By Oliver Heath

Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape our Man-Made World
By Mark Miodownik

The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees
By Robert Penn

Field Fork Fashion
By Alice Robinson

Why Materials Matter: Responsible Design For a Better World
By Seetal Solanki

The Materials Sourcebook for Design Professionals
By Rob Thompson

First Quarter
By John Tuomey

Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes
By Claire Wilcox