Table 1 · Midwinter
The Architect's Winter Hearth
Raw concrete, slate and heavy wool throws. Architectural monographs from Milanese masters and duotone lithograph studies.
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Every book here measures at least 30 centimetres and was chosen by a named editor. We write about the paper, the plates and the binding, then send you to a bookseller we trust.
Hot off the Press
The newest entries on the tables. Each was read, weighed and written up by one of our editors before it went live.
Chosen by Eliza
Vitra: The Anatomy of a Design Company
“An authoritative account of the company that turned a Swiss shopfitter's encounter with an Eames chair in 1950 into one of the world's more consequential design operations — dense with archival material and well worth the shelf space.”
— Eliza Marchant
Chosen by Eliza
Tadao Ando: Light and Space
“Nearly three decades after *The Colours of Light*, this second instalment documents Ando's mature work as Pare has always understood it — in silence, and with the light exactly where Ando intended it.”
— Eliza Marchant
Curated scenarios
Tables configured for the season
Monthly letter
The Standing Order
On the first of each month we send one newly shelved book, chosen by our editors to sit well with natural wood, lime wash or concrete. One email, one book, the reasons why. Nothing between issues.
The shelves
Four curated stacks for study
Nature & Landscape
Deep black-and-white and colour studies of woodland, coast and high ground.
First entries coming
Food & Table
Cookbooks too large to cook from and restaurant books that belong on the table.
First entries coming
Architecture
Heavy, hard-backed archives tracking buildings, plans and the people who drew them.
2 books on the shelf
Photography
Monographs and retrospectives where the plates are the point: gravure, duotone, tritone.
1 book on the shelf