5 books on design recommended by Interni

• Instant Architecture by Maria Chiara Virgili, ed. Gribaudo (€16.90, in bookstores or on www.feltrinellieditore.it).

With the help of the beautiful illustrations by Giulia Renzi, Maria Chiara Virgili, author of the famous podcast Dannati architects, retraces the history of Western architecture with rhythm and lightness from the industrial revolution to today.

A 400-page journey to discover the protagonists, styles, trends but also the behind-the-scenes of modern and contemporary architecture.

Which, due to the daily habit we have of it, we sometimes stop seeing. The right book to understand something of the vast and very rich world of architecture.

• Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel. 1981–2022, by Jean Nouvel and Philip Jodidio, ed. Taschen (150 euros, in bookstores or online at www.taschen.com).

The updated and complete re-edition of the monograph on Jean Nouvel released 15 years ago, edited by the same architect, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize and one of the most important and original contemporary designers, author of works such as the Fondation Cartier and the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and of the art historian Philip Jodidio.

An monster-volume of 800 pages with more than 25 recent projects such as the 82-story 53W53 tower in New York, the Duo Towers in Paris and the Shanghai Pudong Art Museum and works in progress such as the spectacular Sharaan Desert Resort, a hotel that will be carved out of the sandstone rock in the Al-'Ula desert in Saudi Arabia.

For those who want to exaggerate, there is also a super-luxury version of the book in a limited edition: 200 copies signed by Jean Nouvel and with a print of a drawing by him. The cost? 1250 euros.

• The house on the Grand Canal, the Gipsoteca Canoviana Possagno, and The Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice: three monographs dedicated to three works by Carlo Scarpa, edited by various authors (Roberta Martinis, Francesco Magnai , Traudy Pelzel, Gianluca Frediano, Francesco Dal Co and Sergio Polano), ed. Electa (20 euros, in bookstores or online at www.electa.it)

The reissue with restyling of these three monographs by Electa dedicated to three architectural masterpieces is the prelude to a new series entirely dedicated to the work of Carlo Shoe.

An elegant series, with new photographs commissioned ad hoc, the original horizontal format that allows you to better reproduce the drawings of the Venetian architect and the covers characterized by a refined choice of colors stolen from the palettes of Japanese painters Ukyo-e, much loved by Scarpa.

A homage eagerly awaited by all architecture enthusiasts, for whom Carlo Scarpa, who died in 1978, is an authentic legend.

• Tales of interiors. Designer houses of the twentieth century by Lorenzo Pennati and Chiara Dal Canto, Rizzoli Illustrati, 65 euros (in bookstores or online at www.mondadoristore.it).

Ten 'designer interiors' projects by big names such as Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Pietro Barnaba Fornasetti and Carlo Scarpa, who become in this volume 10 'manifesto cases' of the history of architecture and design of the twentieth century, between the post-war period and the 2000s.

A roundup of residential or work spaces that are representative of an era, a style, a personality. And that the photographs of Lorenzo Pennati can tell beautifully.