"It was just turning red, " explained Mr. Dodge, an artist who created a coffee table book about bicycles.
Bush finally ended up publishing that tome, a generously-proportioned coffee-table book called The King of Style, last month.
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Today Myhrvold announced that The Photography of Modernist Cuisine will debut this fall, finally placing coffee in a coffee-table book.
The coffee table book offers a recap of his career in photos and press clips that runs through the 2010 season.
But, while stylish, a zebra-print rug seems too impersonal, and a limited edition coffee table book might not suit his taste.
His client also requested deluxe print materials, so Mr. Saslove created a 30-page coffee-table book that was hand-wrapped in Italian suede.
But its function is two-fold: planning tool and beautifully photographed coffee-table book.
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The result is a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.
The authors, Pat and Rosemarie Keough, are veterans of coffee-table book publishing in Canada, having put together six previous brisk-selling volumes (including The Ottawa Valley Portfolio).
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Long story short: I wrote it as a chapter book instead of a coffee table book because I have a lifetime of material on the subject and I wanted to share it.
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In the relentless drive to turn physical things into virtual ones, the purpose served by the coffee table book will soon be served by the coffee table itself, and for the same reasons.
Now in their third year, with 150, 000 unique visitors per month and a coffee-table book to their credit, the pair make money through producing advertorials, campaigns, sponsorships and casts from their band of 5, 000 tastemakers.
Normally, Blume keeps a box of tissues on the table at book signings, she said, keenly aware of her effect on fans.
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He sat at the table reading a book, his back straight, his head bent as if in prayer.
Book a table for dinner and listen to the live music from the comfort of your seat.
OpenTable, a website, allows people to book a table without having to plead with a snooty hostess.
At theguestchef.net, customers can view a short biography of the chef, peruse the menu and book a table.
For dinner, try to book a table at the candle chandelier-lit restaurant One of By Land, Two if By Sea, Aaron Burr's former carriage house.
The landlord of a pub where Stone sometimes drinks wanted to remain anonymous but said the singer made "no fuss" when she once had to be turned away having failed to book a table for dinner.
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If further proof of Australia's lifestyle clout is needed, just venture into a bookshop in London and see how many homegrown chefs and interior designers are offering coffee-book-table advice on how to replicate the Australian way of life.
For an unforgettable view of the Eiffel Tower when it sparkles in the evening, or a bright business lunch under a glass canopy, book a table at Les Ombres, on the rooftop of the Musee du Quai Branly.
We can get a ride, book a table, get tickets to a show, find a hotel or even a house to crash in, and buy a gift, each with a couple of clicks of an app, and all at the last second.
Or book a table next door at one of Asian fusion star Susur Lee's twin establishments: SusUr (picture seven-course tasting menus eaten in a white room fitted with ostrich-skin banquettes), and right beside that, the brand-new Lee (with an equally dazzling, less costly menu).
"We recognize the huge community of people that text, especially our tech-savvy customer base, and we're thrilled that we can finally enable them to text our existing business number to book a table, place an order, or simply ask a general question that can easily be answered in short form, " said Anna Weinberg, owner and operator of Marlowe.
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If I look at the list of Starbucks recipes and compare with the table of contents in her book, there IS no comparison, no similarities.
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That button also lets you buy the book (in the case of a sample), skip to a specific page, bookmark, look up a word in the including Collins dictionary, view the book's table of contents, and adjust the font size -- there are eight font sizes in all.
One need only read the table of contents in their REWORK book.
If you've found yourself even mildly obsessed with style, art or design over the past score, there's a better-than-average chance you've got a Nicholas Callaway book on your coffee table.
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