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9.30.2013

UD | Open This, You Might Learn Something

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09/30/13

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Five Books That Belong on Your Coffee Table

Coffee tables and books. They go together like... two things that go together really well. Which is why we’ve flipped through thousands of tomes to find you five books worthy of being displayed in your den. Or living room. Or office. Or wherever you’re keeping your coffee table these days.

ARTS & CRAFTS

The Secret to Every Great Cocktail

There are around 78,023 bartenders in Manhattan (give or take). But only one of them creates the life-affirming cocktails at Michelin-starred eatery Per Se. That’s the bartender you want to know. On a related note, that’s the bartender who just put all of his recipes in a book. Cheers.


411:	Craft Cocktails, drop a lime in something here

IN LIVING KOLOR

The Best Pictures Nobody’s Ever Seen

A lion driving a car: that’s a page in this book.
A racehorse observing a dinner date: that’s a page in this book.
A topless model playing life-size chess in Saint-Tropez: that’s a page in this book.
You should probably get this book.


411:	Elliott Erwitt’s Kolor, see something wonderfully weird here

MISTER ANDERSON

The World According to Wes Anderson

Rushmore. The Royal Tenenbaums. Fantastic Mr. Fox. Those are Wes Anderson movies. And this is the tome where Wes Anderson explains those movies. Also, this is the tome where Wes Anderson displays never-before-seen illustrations and gets deep. Not meaning-of-life deep, but still...


411:	The Wes Anderson Collection, read about the Royal treatment here

SWANS SONG

A Book About Travel, Sex and Adventure

Within these slipcovered 300 pages: large, lustrous images of jetsetters from the ’50s through the ’80s doing jetsetter things. Like lounging on yachts and gallivanting around palaces and, you know, being in France. So, yeah, use it for inspiration.


411:	Swans: Legends of the Jet Society, remember the good old days here

NICK OF TIME

Or if You Don’t Have a Coffee Table...

... Nick Offerman will help you build one with your own two hands. Also, he’ll help you grow a mustache. And grill a steak. And seduce members of the fairer sex. Because he’s got a new book in which he waxes poetic on how to do all of those things. In Ron Swanson you trust.