In the relentless drive to turn physical things into virtual ones, the purpose served by the coffee table book will soon be served by the coffee table itself, and for the same reasons.
Long story short: I wrote it as a chapter book instead of a coffee table book because I have a lifetime of material on the subject and I wanted to share it.
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"It was just turning red, " explained Mr. Dodge, an artist who created a coffee table book about bicycles.
Bush finally ended up publishing that tome, a generously-proportioned coffee-table book called The King of Style, last month.
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Today Myhrvold announced that The Photography of Modernist Cuisine will debut this fall, finally placing coffee in a coffee-table book.
The coffee table book offers a recap of his career in photos and press clips that runs through the 2010 season.
But, while stylish, a zebra-print rug seems too impersonal, and a limited edition coffee table book might not suit his taste.
His client also requested deluxe print materials, so Mr. Saslove created a 30-page coffee-table book that was hand-wrapped in Italian suede.
But its function is two-fold: planning tool and beautifully photographed coffee-table book.
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The result is a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.
The authors, Pat and Rosemarie Keough, are veterans of coffee-table book publishing in Canada, having put together six previous brisk-selling volumes (including The Ottawa Valley Portfolio).
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Now in their third year, with 150, 000 unique visitors per month and a coffee-table book to their credit, the pair make money through producing advertorials, campaigns, sponsorships and casts from their band of 5, 000 tastemakers.
If further proof of Australia's lifestyle clout is needed, just venture into a bookshop in London and see how many homegrown chefs and interior designers are offering coffee-book-table advice on how to replicate the Australian way of life.
If you've found yourself even mildly obsessed with style, art or design over the past score, there's a better-than-average chance you've got a Nicholas Callaway book on your coffee table.
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Japanese designers have brought to life a coffee table that becomes a futon plus table and chairs (by Kewb) as well as book shelves that are also jungle gyms (by Koichiro Hoshino).
Mr. Rybczynski and Mr. Olin do an admirable job of conveying the history of Vizcaya, but their book is not one of those lavishly photographed, coffee-table architecture books that have become so common in recent years.
In the library, where weekly workshops, book clubs and talks are held, is a selection of beautiful Taschen coffee table books and must-reads including Vogue creative director Grace Coddington's autobiography.
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