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coffee table book

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a coffee table book
a large, expensive book with a lot of pictures, that is often kept on a table for people to look at. A glossy coffee table book of his art work will be published next year.
See also: book, coffee, table

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Together, Toquin and Bosser have collaborated in their highly recommended coffee table book, "Gardens In Time", to provide a showcase compendium of almost 130 gardens drawn from twenty different countries in a photo documentary that is nothing short of extraordinary.
In his newest book, The Soul of a a New Cuisine (John Wiley & Sons), the Ethiopian-born chef, restaurateur, author, and TV host journeys to the continent of his birth and composes a coffee table book of enticing recipes and insightful stories artfully photographed in a context of historical and cultural origin.
With concise texts in German and English, including a contribution by the great German engineer Jorg Schlaich, this is a coffee table book which, happily, is well worth opening, and marks another chapter in Dechau's commingling of architecture, engineering and photography.
 
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