Your favorite coffee table books (photography, artist monographs, fashion bible, etc)

[Faust]

Dieter Rams. Less but Better

A must have for any designer.

[Shucks]

I finally bought The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China the other day...can't wait for it to finally arrive :)

tragic and grotesque...

[fncyths]

Dieter Rams

Out of all the books on Rams' design career Less and More is my favorite and stacked with the most information. All great reads!



I have an early version of snow white's coffin that's one of my favorite pieces of my design masters collection.

As for Nicholas Alan Cope, all you in NYC will be able to see his work in Patrick Parrish's new gallery/showroom. He moved locations from his old place Mondo Kane.

Nice few posts

[Faust]

Yes, I should get that one, too, fcynths

[ulrich133]

tragic and grotesque...

I would say that's rather debatable....whether the aesthetic appeals to you or not, i think the skill of the carvers at least should be admired.

Regardless of how society (for the most part) views the material from which the sculptures are made.

If we're going to go down the path of demonizing art for the materials used to produce it, why not label all ivory and tortoiseshell carving as grotesque, along with paintings that used toxic pigments that oftentimes killed the the workers that made them?

While we're at it, lets also not forget the huge numbers of tree and plant species wiped out by furniture and decorating fads over the centuries.

[Senpai]

Can cookbooks be considered "coffee table books"? I keep them throughout my place for people to look through as the photography in a lot are fantastic, and they are also utilitarian in the sense I can use them for recipes. I'm a huge fan of cuisine myself, and whenever I find a chef I genuinely love, I look into wether or not they've wrote a cookbook.

[bukka]

[Fuuma]

Anyone has seen this guy's work? He has an artbook out and since we're on the topic of Gosha I thought this might be another angle to the post-soviet youth culture angle.

http://kirillsavchenkov.com/

[absintheparty]

Black and white photography stuff that's really special:

[Faust]

/\ A fine line between art (top) and kitsch (bottom) :-)

[endersgame]

Yeah but Michael Kenna does wall calendars. That to me loses all artistic credibility when you are placed next to Garfield 2014 at the Barns and Noble.

[Faust]

/\ oh! god! does he?! Shame. I have that Japan book - beautiful photography.

[absintheparty]

/\ A fine line between art (top) and kitsch (bottom) :-)

Ha, totally see what you mean.
I guess the reason why I'm so drawn to Brandt is just how close he gets to a lot of his subjects

[Shogun8]

Photography: Ed Burtynsky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Demand, Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, etc.



Japanese Architecture, Design, Gardens, Joinery, Bonsai, Suiseki, etc.



Architectural Monographs: FLW, Carlo Scarpa, Philip Johnson, Luis Barragan, Tadao Ando, etc.



Artist Monographs: Lucio Fontana, Anish Kapoor, Cy Twombly, Anthony Caro, Fernando Botero, etc.



Artist Monographs: Paul Wunderlich, Alberto Giacometti, Isamu Noguchi, Eduardo Chillida



Bruce Weber Collection: Let's Get Lost, The Andy Book, O Rio de Janeiro, Bear Pond, No Valet Parking (every Bruce Weber book, except last two All-Americans - not all shown here)



Antoni Tapies Monographs



Artist Monographs: Ruud Van Empel, Ron Mueck, Brian Jungen, Wim Delvoye, Glenn Ligon, Various Chinese artists



Artist Monographs: Mark Lewis, Taryn Simon, Candida Hofer, Pieter Hugo, Kehinde Wiley, Philip Lorca di Corcia, etc.

[malaesthetique]

Lost in a fire, up there on my list of things to repurchase. The best photos from this book aren't even visible online.