Who doesn’t love a good coffee table book? A beautiful coffee table book has the ability to transform any space. These are my favorites.
Assouline’s Travel Collection
Assouline books have also been my favorite coffee table accessory. It’s a great gift for those who can’t travel, but want to discover a new place. These books feature a unique selection of richly photographed destinations that capture the beauty, culture and essence of each unique place.
Vogue’s Food in Vogue
Food in Vogue is an appropriately oversized and exuberant coffee-table book. By the Editors of Vogue as part of the magazine’s 125th anniversary, it is one of the most iconic publications of all time, Vogue wears its age well, showing a zest for food and food facts that will have foodies turning the pages with relish.
Steven Heller’s Menu Design in Europe
Menu Design in Europe by Steven Heller for Taschen features hundreds of European menus from the early 19th century to the end of the millennium. Europe’s reputation as the center of the culinary world is confirmed with this expansive array of restaurant menus from across the continent.
André Heller’s Luna Luna
Luna Luna is a reissue of the original Luna Luna text, freshly translated from German to English, with an updated preface by André Heller. Luna Luna was the first-ever art amusement park designed by over 30 of the era’s most acclaimed artists — visionaries such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and many more.
Grace Elizabeth’s Small Pleasures
Photographer Grace Elizabeth spotlights southern Italy in her debut book, Small Pleasures, showcasing simplistic and nostalgic life moments. Featuring a vibrant cover and captivating visuals, it makes a striking coffee table addition.
Architectural Digest’s AD at 100: A Century of Style
A coffee table classic. Ranging freely between present and past, the book features the personal spaces of dozens of private celebrities like Barack and Michelle Obama, David Bowie, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Michael Kors, and Diana Vreeland, and includes the work of top designers and architects like Frank Gehry, David Hicks, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, John Fowler, Renzo Mongiardino, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Elsie de Wolfe.
Angelika Taschen’s Great Escapes USA: The Hotel Book
Editor Angelika Taschen’s book presents remarkable places to stay across the United States through beautiful photography and entertaining prose. She even offers practical details on how to get there, in addition to the why.
Assouline’s The Impossible Collection of Wine
In this stunning addition to the Assouline Ultimate Collection, Enrico Bernardo, the world’s best sommelier, imagines the perfect cellar filled with the most exceptional wines of the twentieth century: The Impossible Collection of Wine. This hand-bound oversize luxury edition, featuring hand-tipped images and presented in a wooden crate, will be a must-have for the library of any true wine connoisseur.
Michael Ochs’ 1000 Record Covers
1000 Record Covers by Michael Ochs for Taschen features a selection of iconic record sleeves dating from the 1960s to the 1990s. Whether you’re studying the evolution of cover art or indulging in a trip down memory lane, you’re sure to enjoy this journey into musical history.
Gabriella Le Breton’s The Ultimate Ski Book
A luxury leather-bound edition, The Ultimate Ski Book by skiing expert Gabriella Le Breton includes tips on the best in skiing around the world. Over 150 color and black-and-white photos document a long history of alpine adventures and includes nostalgic ski shots, extraordinary piste views, and the history of the sport from Olympians to recreational enthusiasts.
Marin Montagut’s Timeless Paris
Artist and designer Marin Montagut takes readers inside twenty of his favorite quintessentially Parisian locations – seemingly untouched by time – that provide rich creative inspiration in Timeless Paris.
Stefan Maiwald’s Beach Life
Beach Life portrays the beach as a place of longing, with brilliant photos and entertaining stories: how Coco Chanel invented the summer tan, of the beauty of deserted beaches, of exclusive dream domiciles, of the iconography of the surfer, and of the longest wave ride of all time. Teneues hereby presents the ultimate illustrated book about beach life with portraits of exclusive destinations and beach villas.
THE WATERS EDIT 