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I have
1000 chairs, both volumes of 1000 lights, as well as "Midcentury Modern", a slew of Schiffer books spotlighting Herman Miller, McCobb and Knoll, as well as a wonderful book on Eva Zeisel, a book on Alexander Girard, a book on Sam Maloof, and bunch of other reference books and materials. Buy all of these books when I started to look for good midcentury modern design, sure helped me buy good pieces that were nearly all geniune and I got all of my pieces at good prices!

I am a stone cold book...
I am a stone cold book junkie. First two pics are all architecture, design, furniture books. Third pic is one shelf of auction catalogs (Wright, Rago, etc. and periodicals (full collections of Modernism, Atomic Ranch and the now defunct Echoes)

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Training an assistant can be a long process; it's a good idea to start them young.

Sunset Books
One of my favorite sources of inspiration is almost any issue of the Sunset Books series from the '50s through the '60s. Some are better than others, but all of them include at least a few pages of awesome, authentic mid-century architecture and design. Below is my favorite in the series.

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Nice, there is much good in the magazines from that time but I gotta say 50's gardening has never turned me on, landscape design has improved a lot.

Look at the work of Thomas...
Look at the work of Thomas Church and Garrett Eckbo...you might reconsider.

Calder watches over them
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Nice haul of architecture...
Nice haul of architecture books and journals from the estate of a NYC architect. Early Yale Perspecta Architectural Journals (one with a signed letter from Serge Chermayeff), Lotus International and some nice mid century Architecture volumes. Not cheap-but some good rare stuff.

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