5 IDEAS: 5 Favorite Coffee Table Books

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Feb 17

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Book cover of Saladino Villa showing stone gates topped with statues and a stone house in the distance.

1. Saladino Villa

One of my favorite books of all time. Saladino is in a league of his own and he invites you behind the curtain to see how he creates magic.

Book cover of Gaia Curated by Guy Laliberté showing an image of a mountain lake from space.

2. Gaia curated by Guy Laliberté

The founder of Cirque de Soleil goes into space and needless to say the results are out of this world. I love seeing the familiar in a whole new way.

Bookcover that has a window display with a silver scene with a waterfall, figures, fashion and a sky. The title is Windows at Bergdorf Goodman.

3. Windows – Bergdorf Goodman

If interior design is about creating making our fantasy into real life, then the windows at Bergdorf's are about taking real life and creating fantasy.

Bookcover with an illustration of coral titled "The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities"

4. Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities

This is a classic. I am a big fan of this book and you will find a copy in almost every project I have done. Great cover, great content and a book that is meant to impress.

Bookcover with a photograph of a seaside pool.

5. Poolside with Slim Aarons

As a designer, we strive to create environments for our clients that represent the ideal life they want to live. Could anything be more inspiring than images of these glamorous folks doing just that?