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10 Great Coffee Table Books
E-Readers have nothing on these tomes that double as inspiring accessories
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I got into design via Landscape Architecture, which I studied at the University of Virginia. I've been writing about design online for quite a few years over at Hatch: The Design Public Blog.
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Well, unfortunately, Cosmo Kramer never really published his coffee table book about coffee tables that turned into a coffee table, but lucky for us, there are other options. I am a design-book hoarder, so I keep a few in rotation for inspiration at all times. Here are just a smattering of those with the most inspiring images inside, funniest writing, or most important, the best covers to judge them by. They are presented in no particular order, and obviously, cannot begin to cover all the wonderful books out there.
What's your favorite coffee table book? Please share it with us in the Comments section.
What's your favorite coffee table book? Please share it with us in the Comments section.
by Anthropologie
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I have to agree with Caitlin Creer about this book. The cover looks great on a coffee table. Yup, that's perhaps a little superficial, but it's true.
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I think this must be the number-one stylist's prop book. It's everywhere. It's simple black and white. It's oversized. It's all about Tom Ford in his Gucci days, and the pictures are sexy as all get-out. Actually, it's a little risque, so if you have young kids around, you may want to keep this one out of view.
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This book literally makes me laugh out loud every time I read it. It encourages you to be yourself, to be inappropriate, and do ask yourself "What would Mrs. Goldstein do?" You'll have to read it to find out what that means (it's my favorite page of the book).
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The perfect book for that California-Cool beach shack. It's also the perfect book to help give you that vibe, even if the ocean is far away and you've never surfed in your life.
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Dictionary.com has nothing on Merriam-Webster. Let's make sure that the next generation still knows how to look up a word in the dictionary the old-fashioned way. These gorgeous colors make it easy to leave the dictionary within reach in a prime spot.
by Random House
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Lili Diallo is one of those stylists bloggers have been embracing since first discovering her work, and now we have an inspiring glossy tome full of her projects for reference.
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Interior designer Kelly Wearstler is always a few steps ahead in her designs. So much so, that the first time you see her latest project you might think "what the heck is going on here?" This book captures the inspiration she gets from color, Bravura Modern, geology and, I would hazard, Miami Vice.
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Photographer Todd Selby has put his own stamp on photo styling that has often been imitated and never equaled. He shoots the abodes of artistic people in states of carefully created disarray, which is fresh and keeps these spaces from looking like the same old, same old.
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There are a lot of different Andy Goldsworthy books to choose from, but this one —which takes a vernacular and ubiquitous New England built element, the stone wall, and re-imagines it — always inspires me to look at things in a new way.
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I can't decide if I'd rather have a nickel for every Tom Ford book I see in a magazine spread or a nickel for every copy of Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. Perhaps we'd earn the most money for every time we see So I Married Adventure on a blog. I wonder if anyone has ever actually read that one? I digress. As for The Cabinet, I like to leave it out and open to a different page each day, so that I can admire all of the beautiful drawings inside.
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Comments
Denise Vilim This is my latest coffee table book... 
20 months ago · Like
Becky Harris Funny, I just bought a Bauhaus book at the Border's going out of business sale about a month ago! Your cover is way cooler though - very Mondrian!
20 months ago · Like
newmouse I think I'd better check out Jonathan Adler, since I am a Mrs. Goldstein
20 months ago · Like
kebra Great list! I'd add Domino. Great resource and great price point.
15 months ago · Like
Ideabook published on Sept. 20, 2011.
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