Against Coffee Table Books (eng)

edited by Davide Tolfo, preface by Federico Antonini Originally published in 2025 in Laguna~B’s online magazine as a series of six articles, Against Coffee Table Books positions itself as a clear, straightforward, and honest guide to navigating the complex world of contemporary publishing. Or rather, everything that orbits around books: from their formats and modes of display to how we collect them and the ways we read them. To explore these questions, we turned to little-known and experimental sciences—the Readers’ Entomology, the Ethology of Bookshelves, among others—which allowed us to tackle philosophical and existential questions such as: why do we buy more books than we read? ISBN 978-88-99058-68-5 2026 English 11×17,5cm, 112 pages 1 color risograph Softcover