Coffee-table books, be they opulently crafted and outsized or stylistically subtle, are too good at revealing who we are – or who we want to be seen as – to be on the outs.

His other books include The Dot, I Am Human, Happy Dreamer, The Word Collector and Say Something! From the book A book page from Our Table by Peter H. Reynolds.

As Henry Miller posited in The Books in My Life (1969), “a book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition”. What I add to this almost 50 years later, is that books never lie idly on coffee ...

This need to reconnect at the end of the day with the act of breaking bread at a table together is still just as important today, for farm and city folk alike, as it was in the past. From The ...

Published by Assouline, Valentino: At the Emperor's Table By André Leon Talley sold by Kathy Kuo Home, is a classic coffee table book. With 240 pages, it has so many incredible images to behold.

What value do coffee table books bring to an interior? Henry Ward Beecher once said “books are not made to furnish, but there’s nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” ...