Best Coffee Table Books

The Art of Kinfolk

John Burns · 2023

Helmut Newton. Legacy

Matthias Harder, Philippe Garner

Wandering and Learning

800 Traction Ave

By new ways-Matt Correira

Metropolis

Alan Schaller

Hold Still

A portrait of our Nation in 2020

Fred Herzog

David Campany, Hans-Michael Koetzle, Jeff Wall

The Year That Changed Our World

Agence France Presse · 2021

Still

Natalie Walton · 2020

Bill Cunningham: On the Street

New York Times · 2019

This is Home

Natalie Walton · 2018

The Art of Home

Shea McGee · 2023

Forest

Matt Collins · 2020

Made for Living

Amber Lewis, Cat Chen · 2020

Living with Color

Rebecca Atwood · 2019

Sacred Spaces

Carley Summers · 2023

Interiors, the Greatest Rooms of the Century (Black Edition)

Phaidon Editors, William Norwich · 2022

Banksy

Stefano Antonelli, Gianluca Marziani · 2022

<b>The largest presentation of works by Banksy, the world’s most enigmatic yet highly sought-after artist, including iconic works, installation objects, ephemera, and memorabilia all in one volume.</b><br><br>Banksy is the world’s most discussed artist of recent decades, and this seminal collection features hundreds of works including <i>Girl with Balloon</i>, <i>Pulp Fiction</i>, <i>Love Is in the Air</i>, <i>Barcode</i>, and <i>Monkey Queen</i>. It also includes scores of paintings, serigraphs, stencils, and installation objects as well as a selection of memorabilia—many of which have never been published previously. Created with the cooperation of Pest Control, the group that manages all things Banksy, this is as official and authorized as any Banksy publication could be.<br> <br>Banksy is the world’s greatest practitioner of street art. His work has always been political, involving pointed critiques of inequality, injustice, consumerism, and the establishment, yet no one knows his identity. He is an exemplary case of fame and notoriety built upon absence and anonymity. His relationship with the art market is also complex: marked by mocking hostility while being one of the most marketable and most collected contemporary artists.

Tom Ford

Tom Ford, Bridget Foley

Watch Book Rolex, the Hb

BRUNNER · 2021

Kinfolk Travel

John Burns · 2021

The Kinfolk Home

Nathan Williams · 2015

Coolness

Michael Köckritz

Julie Blackmon: Midwest Materials

· 2022

If You've Seen it All Close Your Eyes

Coco Capitán

"If you've seen it all, close your eyes' presents extracts from a decade of artist Coco Capitán's handwritten notebooks. Coco Capitán has always scribbled down her thoughts - everywhere, all the time - often on scraps of paper that have filled notebook after notebook. From her first day in London in 2010 until now, and as she travels the world on photography assignments, Coco Capitán's writings grant an insight into her free and instinctive creative process. Playful aphorisms and short poems address an array of issues with hints of humour and irony. She combines the serious with the mundane as she shares in her first text-based book social, metaphorical or sentimental moments with her witty tone and distinctive hand."--Publisher's website.

Loving

Hugh Nini, Neal Treadwell · 2020

<b><i>Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950</i></b> portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacular photographs taken between the years 1850 and 1950. This visual narrative of astonishing sensitivity brings to light an until-now-unpublished collection of hundreds of snapshots, portraits, and group photos taken in the most varied of contexts, both private and public.<br> <br>Taken when male partnerships were often illegal, the photos here were found at flea markets, in shoe boxes, family archives, old suitcases, and later online and at auctions. The collection now includes photos from all over the world: Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Greece, Latvia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Serbia. The subjects were identified as couples by that unmistakable look in the eyes of two people in love - impossible to manufacture or hide. They were also recognized by body language - evidence as subtle as one hand barely grazing another - and by inscriptions, often coded.<br> <br>Included here are ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, glass negatives, tin types, cabinet cards, photo postcards, photo strips, photomatics, and snapshots - over 100 years of social history and the development of photography.<br> <br><b><i>Loving </i></b>will be produced to the highest standards in illustrated book publishing, The photographs - many fragile from age or handling - have been digitized using a technology derived from that used on surveillance satellites and available in only five places around the world. Paper and other materials are among the best available. And <b><i>Loving</i></b> will be manufactured at one of the world's elite printers. <b><i>Loving</i></b>, the book, will be up to the measure of its message in every way.<br> <br>In these delight-filled pages, couples in love tell their own story for the first time at a time when joy and hope - indeed human connectivity - are crucial lifelines to our better selves. Universal in reach and overwhelming in impact, <i>Loving</i> speaks to our spirit and resilience, our capacity for bliss, and our longing for the shared truths of love.

Leaving and Waving

Deanna Dikeman b. 1954

Arent and Pyke

Juliette Arent, Sarah-Jane Pyke · 2024

Rose Uniacke at Work

Rose Uniacke · 2023

<b>An unprecedented level of craft is the key signature of Uniacke’s design ethos, on display in this much-anticipated monograph of notable homes she has created.</b><br><br>In-demand London-based interiors and furniture designer Rose Uniacke beautifully showcases a number of homes she has designed, boasting clean lines and calm, light-filled spaces, and showrooms defined by an effortless blend of traditional details within contemporary spaces. Whether the project is an urban townhouse, a seaside retreat, or a London villa, the approach of Uniacke is always the same—a collaboration with clients to make understated, refined sanctuaries that offer the perfect settings for everyday life. The book is sumptuously illustrated with two hundred color photographs that truly capture the serenity and timelessness of Uniacke’s hand-hewn cultivated style.<br><br>The pages of this book exude the same warmth of a Uniacke interior, heightened by the author’s own words as she describes in detail the specifics of each of the eleven projects explored. The result is akin to an informal conversation, with Uniacke revisiting her journey to share instincts and inspirations. An index of Rose Uniacke Editions, the designer’s furniture, lighting, and textiles, completes this elegant volume.i

Architectural Digest at 100

Architectural Digest, Amy Astley · 2019

<b>A rich visual history celebrating a century of the magazine’s publication, </b><b><i>Architectural Digest at 100</i></b><b> presents the best from the pages of the international design authority.</b><br> <br><b>Introduction by Amy Astley, <i>Architectural Digest</i> editor in chief * </b><b>Foreword by Anna Wintour</b><br> <br><b>“A survey of how Americans have lived—and how American life has changed—over the past 100 years.” —<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br> <br><b>“Celeb Décor to Envy.” —<i>Variety</i></b><br> <br><i>Architectural Digest</i>’s editors have delved into the archives and culled years of rich material covering a variety of subjects. 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.<br><br> Also included are stunning images from the magazine’s history by photographers such as Bill Cunningham, Horst P. Horst, Simon Upton, Francois Dischinger, Francois Halard, Julius Shulman, and Oberto Gili.<br> <br><b>“Written in the elevated quality that only the editors of <i>Architectural Digest</i> can master so well, [this] is the world’s newest guide to the best and brightest designs to inspire your next big home project.” —<i>The Editorialist</i></b>