Most of the 2023 year-end book lists we’ve been reading are categorized by genre. Not this one. This impressive list of books published in 2023 will be sorted into categories that those of us who visit and live on the Vineyard spend quality time debating. The three categories for this list of books have to […]
Here it is, right in front of us, the Great American Feast, Thanksgiving, the beacon that next comes the gift-giving holidays, a sharing of things we hope others will love as much as we love giving them. There is nothing I love giving more than books, sharing ones I’ve discovered over the past year. And […]
There should be a warning on the cover of Tamara Weiss, Amanda Benchley, and Elizabeth Cecil’s new book, “Vineyard Folk: Creative People and Places of Martha’s Vineyard,” that reads, “Not just a gorgeous coffee table book.” It is testimony and a treatise for why we should all be working not just to preserve the land, […]
Make this Easter an art-filled one with Thomas Demand and Open Studio
The German artist likes to get creative with eggs. Here’s how he does it, and how you can do it too
No one thinks of the German artist Thomas Demand as a simple illustrator. Indeed, our book Open Studio characterises him as “a self-described conceptual artist.”
“He has become internationally famous for making life-size paper and cardboard sculptures that are reconstructions from photographs of actual spaces, like Jackson Pollock’s studio or the hotel room where L. Ron Hubbard stayed while writing Dianetics,” the book reveals. “He will spend months building these models, and then uses a large format camera to photograph the space, a critical step of commemoration because Thomas destroys the models after he shoots them.”
19 Fashion Coffee Table Books All Footwear Fanatics Should Own Allie Fasanella
If you have a shoe lover in your life or consider yourself to be one, the book world is filled with fun footwear-themed titles from designer monographs and sneaker collectors’ guides to artsy photo books perfect for the coffee table. Ahead, our 20 favorite shoe-centric coffee table boots and where to find them.
“Sneakers”
Esquire contributing editor Alex French and
Wall Street Journal contributing editor Howie Kahn, this 320-page tome takes readers inside some of the sneaker industry’s most legendary stories. Featured throughout are photos and interviews with the people at the center of the action, including basketball great Kobe Bryant, tennis icon Serena Williams, Kith founder Ronnie Fieg, Nike designer Tinker Hatfield and advertising titan Jim Riswold.