Folio Society made a deluxe illustrated edition of The Culture novel Use of Weapons

Lots of illustrations posted here. The cover should have been the simple chair that inexplicably sets him off. 

The Wikipedia entry for the book says, "According to Banks, he wrote a much longer version of the book in 1974, long before any of his books (science fiction or otherwise) were published. The book had an even more complicated structure ('It was impossible to comprehend without thinking in six dimensions')"

(My favorite Culture novel is Matter, but this one is good too)