Phaidon

Phaidon has spent over a hundred years making the kind of books people actually keep on the coffee table instead of the shelf — the ones you flip through with a drink in hand and end up reading cover to cover anyway. They work directly with the chefs, architects, and artists making the thing, not just people writing about it from the sidelines, which is probably why their cookbooks make you hungry and their design books make you want to redo your whole house.