The best coffee table books to broaden your mind
Who are we kidding? They’re there to make your guests think you’ve got your sh!t together
There’s nothing like curling up with a good book, so the saying goes. Nothing except curling up with one or more of these leg and coffee table bruisers!
We scoured coffee tables across the land to offer up this best coffee table book list for you, selecting our favourite books that demand to be taken off of a shelf (sometimes they are just too big for shelves) and left on a coffee table.
The books you have on show say a lot about you as a person, so it's essential you find a tome or two that have the flick-ability factor, for curious house guests to peruse when the conversation begins to wane.
The following best coffee table book list is a mix of entertainment, style and business books that have caught our eye - we just hope you have a coffee table big enough to house them all.
The best coffee table books
Design impacts our lives every day in obvious and hidden ways; this book exposes both sides through in-depth looks at large companies and human-centred design. From Tesla to Ma Yansong, China’s best homegrown architect, Fast Company, proposes that business has its design moment. If you want to read the why behind the designs and see inspirational ideas that are changing lives worldwide, grab a copy today.
Spider-Man is 60. Let that sink in for a second. Introduced by Roy Thomas, the 304-page beast is more like a homage to the web-slinger than a mere coffee table book. Inside features a complete replica of The Amazing Spider-Man #1, created by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. Unsheath the book and nerd-out to the original artwork produced by Marcos Martín, the multiple-award-winning Marvel artist famed for his work on Spider-Man. Part two of a series, the first was Captain America. Can your coffee table take this much awesome?
If “Science Fiction Expressionism” is your thing, this is the book that should adorn your coffee table. From early works to future works, Butzer presents the origins of his thinking and inside his process. You’ll know his work because of the large comic-book eyes, inflated heads or oversized hands. A first edition printing, there are 4,000 numbered copies up for grabs.
Close friend and confident Naomi Parry shares a candid look behind the genius Amy Winehouse. Never before seen photos and memorabilia help to tell the story of Winehouse as her career took off. Lyrics get explained, and a raft of friends and colleagues explain why Amy’s music continues to touch, and inspire, so many.
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