I’ve been an avid collector of coffee table books for some time. There is something incredibly satisfying about curating a collection that’s both visually impactful and intellectually stimulating. Knowing a wider ‘coffee table community’ exists, I recently asked my friends on Instagram to share their favorite coffee table book recommendations with me. Their answers plus a few of my own favorites, below:
- Eat Drink Nap: Bringing the House Home by Soho House
- A Like Vision: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson by Ian Dejardin
- Least Wanted: A Century of American Mugshots by Mark Michaelson
- Overview: A New Perspective of Earth by Benjamin Grant
- Gautier Deblonde: Atelier by Gautier Deblonde
- Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech by Michael Darling
- Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love by Hugh Nini
- Poolside With Slim Aarons by Slim Aarons
- Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines, Polaroids 1975-1983 by Tom Bianchi
- Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties by David Friend & Graydon Carter
- Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton
- Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval
- Studio 54 by Ian Schrager
- Herman Miller: A Way of Living by Amy Auscherman
- Capri Dolce Vita by Cesare Cunaccia
- The Monocle Book of Gentle Living by Tyler Brulé
- Kate Moss by Mario Testino
- The Man Behind The Maps by Ben Farrow
- Hunks & Heroes: Four Decades of Fashion at GQ by Jim Moore
- Tom of Finland XXL by John Waters & Dian Hanson
- Helmut Newton: Polaroids by Helmut Newton
- Jean Prouvé by Galerie Patrick Seguin
- The New Luxury: Defining the Aspirational in the Age of Hype by Highsnobiety
- Bill Cunningham: On the Street by The New York Times
- Horst, Photographer of Style by Philippe Garner
- California As We See It by Oliver Peoples
- Art House by Alisa Carroll
- Herb Ritts: L.A. Style by Paul Martineau
- Andy Warhol Polaroids 1958-1987 by Richard B. Woodward
