Coffee Table Books

Jane Alison Hardcover | 24.43 x 3.63 x 30.48 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791379357 Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern explores a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this...

Silke Pfersdorf Hardcover | 24 x 2.79 x 30.61 cm 272 pp teNeues | 2022 | 9783961714179 With expert analysis, great photography, and a huge selection of familiar and unusual objects, this book explains what truly makes a design great and reveals the hidden stories...

Markus Caspers & Thomas Hauff Hardcover | 208 pp teNeues | 2021 | 9783961713639 Text in English and German This vibrant book celebrates the cultural history of the vinyl record, album cover art and collectibles. With its demise predicted over and over, the good old...

Hardcover | 23.62 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 256 pp teNeues | 2022 | 9783961714148 Text in English and German The Minimalist view uncovers the aesthetics of everyday life and transforms them into something extraordinary and inspiring. Here the works of fifteen selected...

Jim Heimann Hardcover | 25 x 4 x 34 cm | 512 pp Taschen | 2022 | 9783836583282 Surfing. 1778–Today is the most comprehensive visual history of surfing to date, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Following three and a half...

Jason Godfrey Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.54 x 29.85 cm | 224 pp Laurence King | 2014 | 9781780673363 100 Classic Graphic Design Journals surveys a unique collection of the most influential magazines devoted to graphic design, advertising and typography. These journals together span...

Fran May Hardcover | 29.7 x 3 x 27.7 cm | 224 pp Storm Music & Images | 2019 | 9781999833817 This edition presents extraordinary images form the archive of renowned photographer Fran May - extraordinary for their quality but also for the fact...

Marco Livingstone Hardcover | 29.8 x 3.2 x 25.6 cm | 288 pp Thames & Hudson | 2022 | 9780500025314 Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake has become one of the best-known...

Hardcover | 24.77 x 3.49 x 31.43 cm | 320pp Grand Central Publishing | 2018 | 9781538747155  Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story-told in revelatory detail-of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it:...

Hardcover | 24 x 2.77 x 28 cm | 312 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2021 | 9783897906365 In a country known for its lively azulejos (tiles) and clay crafts, local studio pottery in Portugal has remained practically unknown, yet throughout the last century,...

Hardcover | 26.67 x 3.05 x 34.29 cm | 296 pp Scheidegger & Spiess | 2014 | 9783858817587 A tie reveals a lot about its wearer - social position, aesthetic tastes or political stance. From the early 17th until the beginning of the 20th...

Charlotte Abrahams Hardcover | 24.26 x 3.25 x 30.38 cm | 256 pp The Overlook Press | 2010 | 9781590204344 This luxurious book explores contemporary wallpaper through three approaches to design - Architectural Illusions, Fabulous Florals and Pasted Pictures. Each section starts with 21st century examples,...

Paul Gorman Hardcover | 24.13 x 3.05 x 29.46 cm | 288 pp Thames & Hudson | 2015 | 9780500093887 Taking as his subject icons of consumerism and American popular culture, Derek Boshier (1937-2024) made his name in the 1960s as one of the key...

Bill Smith Hardcover | 30.5 x 30.5 x 1.6 | 128 pp Red Planet Books | 2021 | 9781912733170 All copies signed by Bill Smith Bill Smith and his Studio have been designing record covers since 1976. In those five decades they have worked...

Hardcover | 28.19 x 3.05 x 36.07 cm | 320 pp Steidl | 2016 | 9783958290570 This book features Karl Lagerfeld's most beautiful photographs of haute-couture garments shot for French fashion magazine Numéro, published to celebrate its 15 years of collaboration with the famous...

Clare Lilley,  Jon Wood,  Kirsten Claudia Voigt &  Peter Murray Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.3 x 32.26 cm | 388 pp Hatje Cantz | 2019 | 9783775746069 Sean Scully‘s abstract paintings are world-famous. In them he moves far beyond a purely formal confrontation with colour, form, plane,...

Dominique Carre Hardcover | 22.8 x 2.3 x 28.5 cm | 320 pp Gingko Press | 2015 | 9781584232667 This book is a beautiful republication of the 1860s wood type catalogue Specimen des caractères en bois de la maison Bonnet. It demonstrates that letters, like buildings, incarnate the...

Steven Heller & Esther K Smith Hardcover |  25.91 x 1.52 x 33.78 cm | 120 pp Rizzoli | 2017 | 9780847858682 Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c. is a reproduction of a vintage volume with an established cult status within the bibliophile,...

Nathalie Herschdorfer Hardcover | 21.08 x 4.57 x 31.5 cm | 440 pp Thames and Hudson | 2015 | 9780500544471 A comprehensive, accessible and authoritative illustrated reference to the history, art and science of photography - a single, elegant volume, featuring over 300 iconic photographs and more than...

Hardcover in slipcase | 26.82 x 3.23 x 37.31 cm | 240 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262036504 Muriel Cooper (1925–1994) was the pioneering designer who created the iconic MIT Press colophon (or logo) - seven bars that represent the lowercase letters “mitp”...