The Best
Coffee Table Books to Give
A smart, stylish present that works for nearly anyone.
When you don’t know what to get someone, but you want to make an impact and show them you do know something about their tastes and personality, opt for a book. Ideally, a coffee table book. The great thing about them is that they're meant to be savored. Oversized and plenty thick, they tend to take a while to get through. You pick one up, indulge yourself for a while and then set it back down. When you give a coffee table book, you're giving an activity, a true objet d'art and the gift of time. Here are a handful of our team's favorites to spruce up someone's space and pique their intellectual curiosity.
The Best Coffee Table
Books to Give
Tokyo Chic, $105 by Assouline
A Man & His Kitchen,
$40 by Matt Hranek
The Art of Kinfolk,
$75 / $54.85 by John Burns
Bauhaus Style,
$105 by Assouline
The Brutalists: Brutalism's Best Architects, $69.95 by Owen Hopkins
50 Things I Wish I'd Told You: Life Skills,
$14.95 by Polly Powell
Preservation of Style,
$32.85 by Alexandra Gargiulo
Thom Browne, $150 /$105 (w/code HOLIDAY) by Thom Browne
High on Design, $60 by gestalten
Paris Living Rooms,
$48 by Dominique Nabokov
Sweet Enough,
$35 / $17.31 by Alison Roman
How To Swear Around The World,
$13 by Jason Sacher
Faculty Department Vol. 2, $95 by Justin Chung
Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design,
$80 by Gideon Schwartz
The Philosophy of Modern Song,
$37.59 by Bob Dylan
The Little Book of Hermès,
$98 by Karen Homer
The Cobrasnake: Y2Ks Archive, $31.49 by Mark Hunter
