Table 1 · Midwinter
The Architect's Winter Hearth
Raw concrete, slate and heavy wool throws. Architectural monographs from Milanese masters and duotone lithograph studies.
See the books on this tableArchitectureBooks built for your table, not a shelf
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.
Mother: A Tribute to Mother Earth
“Van Oosten works at the scale of a single subject: one elephant, one waterfall, one tree. In a 270 x 360mm format, printed by teNeues, that turns out to be quite enough.”
SINK / RISE: The Day May Break, Chapter Three
“The photographs in this book should not exist. Nick Brandt somehow made them anyway, entirely in-camera, on the ocean floor off Fiji.”
Before / After: Álvaro Siza
“Siza at 91, choosing his own twenty. Malagamba's photographs and the architect's hand drawings together make the case for why the work still matters.”
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.
4 books on the shelf
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.
4 books on the shelf
Photography
Monographs and retrospectives where the plates are the point: gravure, duotone, tritone.
10 books on the shelf