Thanks to Born Rich in my Everyday Reads for the skinny. If your flair for reading extends beyond the ordinary, then you must be looking at luxury publishing that is making waves these days. Forget diamond encrusted books, ‘Michelangelo: La Dotta Mano’ (Michelangelo: The Wise Hand), a volume of photographs of the Renaissance master’s sculptures is the ultimate coffee table book on stands this year. The book priced at a whopping sum $155,000 comes with a 500 year warranty. So, what’s special about this book? Expert artisans from different fields have worked to create a lavish book that is an ‘art by itself’. While the photographs are printed on high quality paper handmade exclusively for the project, the black marble cover is a scale reproduction of the “Madonna della Scala” (“Madonna of the Steps”), a bas-relief of the Virgin and Child sculptured by Michelangelo. The 46.2 pound book was carried by two attendants when Gruppo FMR made a gala presentation of the book in a spectacular event.