From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, the books that designers return to again and again for inspiration. By Catherine Hong In our very online era, design trends seem to ...

The saying goes: Never judge a book by its cover. But what about the edges of its pages? Sumptuous fore-edges — sprayed a bright color, stenciled with city skylines, made to look like pointy teeth — ...