Coffee table book
A coffee table book is a hardcover book that rests on a coffee table or similar surface in an area where guests sit and are entertained, thus inspiring conversation or alleviating boredom. They tend to be oversized and of heavy construction, since there is no pressing need for portability. Subject matter is generally confined to non-fiction, and is usually visually-oriented. Pages consist mainly of photographs and illustrations, accompanied by captions and small blocks of text, as opposed to long prose. Most tend to be biographies or fall into the genres of History, art, or entertainment.
In popular culture
- There is a 2003 coffee table book about coffee tables called The Coffee Table, Coffee Table Book by Alexander Payne.[1]
- In the fifth season (1993–1994) of the popular American sitcom Seinfeld, there was a story arc involving Kramer wanting to write a coffee table book about coffee tables. His idea was for the coffee table book to have legs built into the back cover and cupholders built into the front cover, so the book itself could be turned into a coffee table.[2]
References
- ^ Payne, Alexander (2003-10-01). The Coffee Table, Coffee Table Book (Hardcover). ISBN 190103304X.
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