New York, NY · Est. 1949 · Founded by Harry Nathan Abrams
Some registry additions are practical. A stunning coffee table book is something else entirely -- a conversation starter, a design object, a little piece of who you are sitting out in the open. Harry Abrams, a Brooklyn kid who grew up selling shoes and studying art, founded his namesake publishing house in 1949 on the belief that Americans deserved beautiful books. He was right. Add the one that feels like you.
Harry Nathan Abrams grew up in Brooklyn, the son of a shoe store owner, spending his evenings studying at the National Academy of Art. He spent 14 years at the Book-of-the-Month Club before walking away in 1949 to start something no American publisher had tried before -- a house devoted entirely to beautiful, illustrated books. He started with $100,000, two employees, and three titles: Renoir, Van Gogh, and El Greco.
Seventy-five years later, Abrams is the definitive publisher of visual culture -- architecture, fashion, photography, interior design, food, and art. The kind of books that live on coffee tables for decades, passed around at dinner parties and dog-eared with intention. A coffee table book on a registry isn't an indulgence. It's a marker of taste. It says something about how you want your home to feel and what you want guests to find when they sit down. Browse the Abrams titles on Soirée Season and add the one that tells your story.
