Best Fashion and Art Coffee Table Books to Gift This Holiday Season

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Best Fashion and Art Coffee Table Books to Gift This Holiday Season

by David Saric
November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Coffee table books, in all of their illustrative, photographic and literary glory, display a wealth of insight about their owner through a choice curation. Resting on living room furniture, these objets d’art simultaneously rouse conversation while also symbolizing a person’s interests sui generis. Whether a personal investment or a gift for a dilettante, these magnificently presented publications evade dusty bookshelves or being crammed in bankers boxes buried within closets, they demand to be showcased. S/ has rounded up a list of the most compelling coffee table books detailing unique cultural subject matter—from fashion to art—that will enliven any living room.

Scroll through the gallery below for more.

Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

Best Fashion and Art Coffee Table Books to Gift This Holiday Season

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Image 1+ 3: courtesy of @rhode
Image 2: courtesy of @tiffanyandco
Image 4: courtesy of @boss
Image 5: courtesy of @hm

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From an upcoming @rhode Birthday Edit to another @hm collaboration, here is the latest news in the world of fashion for this week’s #FashionReview.

Image 1+ 3: courtesy of @rhode
Image 2: courtesy of @tiffanyandco
Image 4: courtesy of @boss
Image 5: courtesy of @hm

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Shop the full gift guide at the link in bio.

Photos courtesy of @canadagoose

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Shop the full gift guide at the link in bio.

Photos courtesy of @canadagoose

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Read the full interview at the link in bio.

Cover story by @sumibandz
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Photo courtesy of Alexi Lubomirski / Trunk Archive.

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