Ask HN: Coffee table books

#1

Post by tue4Iezi » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:00 PM UTC

I was wondering what coffee table books people could recommend that would be relevant to the HN community? Aside from the obvious "Designed by Apple"

Re: Ask HN: Coffee table books

#2

Post by foxh0und » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC

Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible is quite a nice one.

#3

Post by ericwood » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:28 PM UTC

I have this one sitting out and it's a joy to flip through:

Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed

The beauty of Soviet brutalism: A photographic record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR

#4

Post by znpy » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:29 PM UTC

"Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company" by IBM Press

#5

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:29 PM UTC

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#6

Post by Dowwie » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:36 PM UTC

He passed away in 2012. I wish someone wrote a worth revised edition.

#7

Post by hsitz » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:37 PM UTC

I think any of the Edward Tufte books qualify, starting with _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_:

#8

Post by sbuttgereit » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:38 PM UTC

One I have (and use as a coffee table book) is "Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers". May be out of print though...

#9

Post by dep_b » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:39 PM UTC

A Basquiat book by Taschen. Can't go wrong with Basquiat among liberal people

#10

Post by lqet » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 10:41 PM UTC

How about a coffee table book about coffee tables?