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The Book We’re Buying Everyone This Year
Every once in a while a book comes along that’s way too good to keep to ourselves. This year, it’s Grace Bonney’s In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs—and lucky for us it showed up just in time for the holidays (guess what you’re getting for Christmas, everyone on our list?).
Bonney traveled around the country to interview more than 100 trailblazing women, and she captures the conversations—along with gorgeous photography of the women and their work—in the pages of this book. You’ll meet artists, stylists, designers, writers, performers, musicians, professors, and more. Some of the names are instantly recognizable (Maya Lin, Carrie Brownstein, Eileen Fisher), and others are just breaking onto the scene (as the founder of DesignSponge, Bonney is a master at introducing the world to bright new talent!)—but each gets equal space to share her story and her wisdom.
If you know Bonney from DesignSponge, you know that, along with her signature aesthetic, she brings an intelligence and thoughtfulness to everything she does. This book is no different. Bonney’s interviews aren’t quickie Q+As—they’re honest, intimate conversations that give you an authentic portrait of each woman, as well as insights into the joys and hardships of turning a passion into a livelihood. As you read, you feel almost like you’re in on the conversation yourself, listening to and learning from some of the most talented women around.
And because female doers and makers come from all walks of life, Bonney made sure this book includes all types of women. Fresh-faced go-getters and women who wear their wrinkles proudly. African-American women, Asian women, Hispanic women. Straight women, gay women, transgender women. Tattooed women, differently abled women, tiny women, big women. And yet somehow, even more striking than the differences are the similarities: the struggles, the paths, the wisdom.
In the Company of Women is for everyone. For your sister, your mom, your best friend. For that coworker who’s always wanted to start her own business but needs an extra nudge. For your favorite local female business owner, for your artist cousin who’s curious about selling her wares, for your talented niece who’s plotting her career path. And for you—because whether or not you think of yourself as a maker, artist, or entrepreneur, you’re going to see yourself in the pages of this remarkable book.
Every once in a while a book comes along that’s way too good to keep to ourselves. This year, it’s Grace Bonney’s In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs—and lucky for us it showed up just in time for the holidays (guess what you’re getting for Christmas, everyone on our list?).
Bonney traveled around the country to interview more than 100 trailblazing women, and she captures the conversations—along with gorgeous photography of the women and their work—in the pages of this book. You’ll meet artists, stylists, designers, writers, performers, musicians, professors, and more. Some of the names are instantly recognizable (Maya Lin, Carrie Brownstein, Eileen Fisher), and others are just breaking onto the scene (as the founder of DesignSponge, Bonney is a master at introducing the world to bright new talent!)—but each gets equal space to share her story and her wisdom.
If you know Bonney from DesignSponge, you know that, along with her signature aesthetic, she brings an intelligence and thoughtfulness to everything she does. This book is no different. Bonney’s interviews aren’t quickie Q+As—they’re honest, intimate conversations that give you an authentic portrait of each woman, as well as insights into the joys and hardships of turning a passion into a livelihood. As you read, you feel almost like you’re in on the conversation yourself, listening to and learning from some of the most talented women around.
And because female doers and makers come from all walks of life, Bonney made sure this book includes all types of women. Fresh-faced go-getters and women who wear their wrinkles proudly. African-American women, Asian women, Hispanic women. Straight women, gay women, transgender women. Tattooed women, differently abled women, tiny women, big women. And yet somehow, even more striking than the differences are the similarities: the struggles, the paths, the wisdom.
In the Company of Women is for everyone. For your sister, your mom, your best friend. For that coworker who’s always wanted to start her own business but needs an extra nudge. For your favorite local female business owner, for your artist cousin who’s curious about selling her wares, for your talented niece who’s plotting her career path. And for you—because whether or not you think of yourself as a maker, artist, or entrepreneur, you’re going to see yourself in the pages of this remarkable book.
