Coffee table books worth collecting

by Metropol | September 2, 2026 8:33 am


Curated by Nina Tucker

A (somewhat green) collection of my favourite coffee table books you can find around the city right now – from the vivacious Iris Apfel to beautiful portraits of our home in Aotearoa.

AD at Home: Architectural Digest, edited by Amy Astley

 

Cape to Bluff, a portrait of residential architecture from Aotearoa New Zealand. By Simon Devitt and Andrea Stevens

 

Colourful by Iris Apfel, published by Penguin Books

 

The Artist’s Cut, David Yarrow

 

British Designers At Home by Jenny Rose-Innes

 

Bird Land Te Kāhui Manu, by Ken Hall, Douglas Campbell and more

 

Ralph Lauren, A Way of Living

 

Hilfiger Homes, Style Visionaries Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger invite readers inside their seven homes

 

Collecting Living With Art by Kim Elphinstone

 

Perhaps the most iconic coffee table book of all time, Tom Ford

 


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