Coffee table books - Would you?

[addictedtomafs]

I have recently heard about this trend that has been around for about 10 years . At first I thought it was a bit weird, as the pages are blank, but then I can see why people like the look of the books on a table/shelf.

Now I’m thinking of buying some books to style my coffee table . Do you know anyone that has them? I think I would be embarrassed if someone picked one up only to find out it’s not a real book. Am I being daft even considering the purchase?

I have never seen or heard this.

I would expect to be able to leaf through the pages of a coffee table book. Isn't that the point? They're meant to be luxurious, beautiful, etc etc

I change mine regularly so my nice books aren't just stuck on a book shelf.

No!!! What a waste of money. I can't believe this is even a thing. How ridiculous.

@ILoveShula

Go to your local high street when the shop reopen. Your friendly local charity shops will have lots of impressive looking books for less than £1 each. Failing that, try WH Smith or TK Maxx

This. Or try eBay/Amazon Marketplace if you don't mind paying postage for a heavy book.

Books about art/architecture often have stylish covers and interesting contents.

Sadly my coffee table is usually cluttered with the very unstylish paperbacks in my 'to read' pile so my elegant hardbacks stay in the shelves.

I’ve got 40 boxes of books in storage ... nope I wouldn’t be buying any stunt books!

Books are there to read, flip through.

It’s utterly ludicrous on so many levels!

Just buy some real coffee table books and that way you can enrich your own life and that of anyone who visits you. Blank pages in a book, what on earth is the point of that?? Style over substance, and really bloody stupid too.

Unless you use it to doodle? I have blank books but I use these for drawing out things I am making it for my portfolio.

God no, how cringe is that? Go on eBay, buy some gorgeous antique books of the classics, like treasure island etc, they are probably cheaper and much classier than putting fake books out.

Something like this. So cheap and as said, much classier than fake books,

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Job-lot-of-7-Vintage-Books-Including-Treasure-Island-Kim-1940s-1985/133706710316?hash=item1f218a7d2c:g:jgQAAOSwddZgYjmH

I've had to spend a lot of time recently, getting rid of actual books! Selling clothes is less of a pain I tell you and I don't especially enjoy that.

So, no. I would never do this! Less is more in my house and I'm forever doing battle with clutter, so I would never consider paying for more clutter!

This is just a hilarious concept!

If you’re into interiors then ‘For the Love of White’, ‘Eat, Drink, Nap’ and ‘AD at 100’ are on every interior instagrammmer’s coffee table at the moment.

@SatsumasOrClementines

If you’re into interiors then ‘For the Love of White’, ‘Eat, Drink, Nap’ and ‘AD at 100’ are on every interior instagrammmer’s coffee table at the moment.

They really aren’t,,😂

This is such a daft concept. If I went to a friend's house and they had a fake book on the table, I really would have to take the piss.

I’d draw something in it for them.

@Bluntness100 I’m not talking actual interior designers Grant K Gibson, Sarah Sherman Samuel etc. But the huge amount of standard ‘5k followers/my new home/I love neutrals’ type of interior accounts definitely!

Search #coffeetablebooks in recents and I guarantee you’ll see one or more of those titles.

(I’m not saying it’s a good thing btw, just stating facts.)

(Along with the Channel/Dior/Gucci ones that are also everywhere.)

For of love of betsy - if you have some big books which you have no where else to store them - aces - coffee table - great ) but "pretend ? books - for me a No - as ever other opinions are available - personally I would not buy a book to put on coffee table specifically - just where they can be stored ( But I have a small house )

I thought the point of coffee table books was that they were design-y books with lots of images for flicking through and looking at, rather than actual blank books! Just buy some cool looking hardbacks if you like the look, then you won't feel silly if someone looks through them.

Back in the olden days, wasn't the Next Directory what people had on their coffee tables. On our coffee table is the Radio Times, much more useful than a blank book

Madness!

Don’t you have any books at all?

I'm glad you've seen sense OP. Imagine if someone picked it up!

SatsumasOrClementines I have the V&A Christian Dior book from when I went to the exhibition. It's very well thumbed. Sadly I don't have a coffee table...

I thought this was going to be about the trend for piling books on coffee tables so there's nowhere to put your sodding wine glass.
But this is worse.

I think that’s one of the most genuinely depressing concepts I’ve come across lately. If you read books, put books you like in your rooms, if you don’t, are you really going to arrange blank books on your table?

Me too. How sad. The books a person owns say an awful lot about them. I don't need to spell out what a fake book with blank pages suggests

What an utterly batshit concept.