This is the first book to present the work of the designers Ronan (b.1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (b.1976), the rising stars of international design and the most promising international designers to have emerged from France since the legendary Phillippe Starck in the 1980s.
Despite their youth, the Bouroullecs have already realized a wide range of products - from furniture to jewellery, lighting to interiors - for leading companies such as Cappellini, Vitra and Issey Miyake. This book, conceived and designed by the brothers themselves, displays the freshness, refinement and elegance of all their products. A fascinating collection of the images, showcasing their products and working practices, it also includes texts by leading design entrepreneurs Rolf Fehlbaum, Giulio Cappellini and Issey Miyake.

Nobuyoshi Araki is the most controversial photographer working in the world today. To his critics, he is no more than a pornographer and a misogynist; to his supporters he is a radical and a revolutionary, a figure who has challenged not just artistic limits, but social limits in post-war Japan. At home, he is a national celebrity. In the West he is considerably less understood. This is the book that will explain Araki. In its sheer range of text and images, it is also the most comprehensive volume ever to be published on his life's work.

PHAIDON DESIGN CLASSICS is the first comprehensive and authoritative collection of classic design objects. This beautifully illustrated three-volume set of books presents 999 industrially manufactured products, carefully selected by a group of experts. It is the first definitive illustrated sourcebook on the evolution of design to include such a wide scope of objects in detail. From cars to furniture, from tableware to cameras, from everyday objects to airplanes, this breadth of design has never before been collected in such a way before. PHAIDON DESIGN CLASSICS tells the story of design’s evolution around the world from the late 1600's to the present, bringing together patents, prototypes, old advertisements, original drawings, images showing the process of manufacturing, as well as rare archival photographs. The anthology features an astonishing 4,000 images. The objects are presented chronologically, beginning with an elegant pair of Chinese bonsai scissors from the early 1600s, still in production today, and ending with Barber Osgerby’s Lunar bath accessories, destined to become a classic. Glancing through the volumes, the reader will gain an understanding not only of the history of design, but a history of taste and culture. The book is an extraordinary journey through the objects that have shaped our society, from the first attempts to combine function and beauty in the nineteenth century, through the machine aesthetics of the thirties, the advent of plastic and other new materials in the fifties and sixties, up to the classics-to-be of the last ten years. The book includes not only objects created by internationally renowned designers, such as Breuer, Le Corbusier, Dreyfuss, Eames, Yanagi and Castiglioni, but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the clothes peg, the corkscrew and the chopstick, which, in spite of lacking a specific designer, have achieved such perfection in design and functionality that they have eliminated the possibility of improvement. PHAIDON DESIGN CLASSICS is a laboriously selected examination of some of the world’s best products ever made, most of which are still in production. The objects truly encapsulate what design is and what it will be for decades to come. It is a key reference tool for the designer or architect, as well as a fascinating and accessible design history for the newcomer. The collection comes in a specifically commissioned carrying unit exclusively designed by Konstantin Gricic.

Fruits is a collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier street fanzine of the same name. 'Fruits' was established in 1994, by photographer Shoichi Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. Over the last five years, the magazine has grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles and trends. The average age of the kids featured in the magazine is between 12 and 18, and the clothes that they wear are a mixture of high fashion - Vivienne Westwood is a keen favourite - and home-made ensembles which when combined create a novel, if not hysterical, effect. This extensive collection of portraits represents a unique documentation of the changing face of street fashion throughout the last decade. Colourful, fascinating and funny, this is the first time these cult images have been published outside Japan.

SAMPLE presents 100 outstanding fashion designers selected by 10 of the field's leading professionals, including editors, stylists, designers, curators and writers. Truly global in scope, it has collected the world's most exceptional international young designers from fashion's four capitals - London, Paris, Milan and New York - as well as from other less prominent but no less flourishing centres of activity, such as Auckland, Osaka, Stockholm, Mallorca, Hollywood and Dakar.
The 100 fashion designers are arranged in alphabetical order, with each featured on their own two double-page spreads. Combining photographs, sketches, drawings and computer renderings, SAMPLE explains the processes behind seasonal collections, as well as showcasing final pieces from the realms of mean's wear, women's wear, shoes, hats and accessories. Concise, descriptive texts by curators explain the designers' work and the characteristics that make their fashion groundbreaking.
SAMPLE is a meticulously crafted book that gives exposure to previously unseen archive material including formative design sketches and candid, backstage photographs. It is a unique collectors' piece made for the truly style-conscious, as well as an indispensable reference tool for anyone with an interest in fashion.
SAMPLE takes its place in a series of surveys identifying 100 of the most interesting, cutting-edge practitioners of key art forms. Earlier surveys include cream and Fresh Cream, for contemporary art, 10x10 for architecture, BLINK for photography, Spoon for design and Area for graphic design.

The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture--so massive that it comes in its own plastic carrying case--is one of the rare publishing events that lives up to its hype. The book showcases 1,052 buildings completed since January 1998 with thousands of well-chosen color photographs plans, elevations, and cross-sections. Major elements of each project are described in elegantly succinct texts. Rather than simply pay lip service to the concept of "world" architecture, this book ranges throughout 75 countries on six continents. And although the big names in the field are here--Rafael Moneo and Herzog & De Meuron are each represented by nine projects; Tadeo Ando with eight, Frank Gehry with six--the focus is on the ingenuity and diversity of contemporary architecture, regardless of the fame of its creator.The book's global view embraces many approaches, including experimental construction, neo-modernism, postmodernism, reinterpreted vernacular architecture and lingering traces of the International Style. While virtually every building type is included, from factories to museums, from lookout towers to train stations, the largest and most creative category is single family housing. Selected (as were all the projects) by a panel of leading architects, critics, scholars and others, these homes offer a tantalizing sense of what is possible, even on a modest budget. Grouped by country, the residences establish a sense of local context--from the elegant use of Scandinavian wood to the imaginative use of narrow plots of land in Tokyo. Fully indexed, with an array of maps and world data charts, The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture is destined to serve as a unique reference tool. But the geographic organization encourages you to just open the book anywhere and make a discovery--perhaps the surreal vision of Ake Larsson's Icehotel (carved from ice and snow), or the forest of Cor-ten steel pipes Jose ABP Forjaz used in the Mbuzini Memorial, or the startling shed forms of Rick Joy's Tubac House. --Cathy Curtis

Made in China is a fun-filled, action-packed journey into the heart of Chinese pop culture. For Asia-philes, designers, and pop culture junkies, designer Reed Darmon has collected the most colorful (and in some cases, the kookiest) Chinese ephemera in this chunky paperback. Candy wrappers, firecrackers, Chairman Mao heads, and more! These objects are a testament to the age-old Chinese fascination with vivid hues and whimsical figures. Even humdrum, everyday items such as matchbooks and sock labels are decorated with exuberant illustration. A stylishly designed object and graphic essay in one, Made in China is a kaleidoscope of playful graphics and vibrant design, from the post-revolution '50s through today.

When Yohji Yamamoto wants to convey his ideas to the people he works with he uses words, not drawings. Each of his collaborations started with a conversation. Sometimes, as is apparent from interviews within this issue, a few words were enough to realise beautiful projects, develop special friendships, build things that transcend the ordinary.

活霍尔与波依斯是一对西方艺术明星。
他们每一次的出场问是引起各种媒体与激情观众的围攻，他们的人生扑朔迷离、异彩纷呈，他们思想激进、艺术手法标新立异，分别代表了欧洲与美国对现代艺术观念的不同阐释。
自从现代艺术胜利以后，艺术获得了另一种身份，什么都可以成为艺术，波依斯就是这样的一位艺术家，以至于即使是用油画布和油画颜料的创作也不能用传统的绘画概念加以定义，而只是一种拼贴的前卫艺术，安迪·沃霍尔实现了这种艺术方式。

本书系汉语世界首次系统研究后现代主义艺术的学术专著。 全书以西方后现代主义艺术为对象，籍由历史系谱、理论系谱、艺术系谱的考掘、梳理、比较和分析，给出了既有思想蕴涵的空间框架，又有视觉形式的时间变异之丰繁景观。 系谱学是一种文化形式的人文实践，其历史可追溯到荷马史诗、旧约圣经、中国先秦的“世本”史撰，而本书所倚重的是福柯式的系谱学方法，作者将整个后现代现象视之为多重权力话语的角力场和有机关联的知识装置，阐释现象背后的历史条件与理论根源，追问语言论美学转向之后的多元立场，在质询资本主义文化悖谬逻辑之同时，批判的肯定后现代性的精神实验，从而澄明迷离幻化的后现代视觉经验中的奥义与谵妄、悲愿与游戏、救赎与媚俗的多重差异。

书是江晓原、王一方二人关于性学的散文随笔合集。全书共分为三个部分：对话、夜话、闲话，另加序、跋各一篇。对话部分共四篇，是江晓原、王一方二人关于伟哥、避孕药、性麻木现象及性文学的对话。夜话部分共七篇，为江晓原所写。前五篇是从历史的角度，探讨中国古代的房中术、春宫图、春药、避孕与堕胎史、性文学史，后两篇是书评，是对两本性文学研究著作的评论。闲话部分共八篇，为王一方所写，是探讨当前社会生活中的情色现象的散文，对当前社会中的一夜情、美容、湘女多情等现象做了有趣的探讨。中国人往往羞于谈论性爱——甚至在许多夫妻之间也是如此。所以有许许多多中国夫妻在性爱方面并不幸福，这不仅仅是指他们之间不交流性爱的感受（更别提切磋或探索性爱技巧了）；更重要的是，性爱至今在不少人（特别是女性）心目中是一件下流的、不体面的事情，非但羞于谈论，也羞于实践。所以性爱质量不能提高，性爱甚至没有名正言顺的地位。性爱非但与男女感情关系匪浅，对身体健康也极为重要。和谐美满的性爱，可以使男女双方都活力增强，疾病减少，益寿延年。江晓原、王一方都是国内有名的性史专家，他们的研究，不仅使我们对古人的性生活有了更深的了解，而且对于匡正今天的时弊，增进国人的幸福有极大推动作用。

本书收录作家叶兆言关于中国近、现代历史上著名文化人物的散文二十九篇，所记叙的人物，上至康有为、梁启超、章太炎，下至苏青、张爱玲等江南才女，既有林琴南、闻一多、朱自清、吕叔湘等文学大家，又有齐白石、张大千等画坛巨匠。本书既是作者的一部读书笔记，从中可以窥出作者的阅读轨迹及阅读心得，同时也是一部近现代文学史话的随谈，加上有点迂腐、俏皮的议论，作者阅读记忆中的历史文化人物走出了尘封的记忆，读着亲切，甚至也有几分感动。

《无轨列车》
《读书》十年·关于梵澄先生——日记摘抄 扬之水
祖父叶玉麟散记 叶扬
钵水斋主 郑重
闲话绅士俱乐部 恺蒂
一个人的城堡 黄昱宁
猫（村上春树密码） 李长声
正始中学始末 陆澹安
润例、诊金之种种怪现状（安持杂忆） 陈巨来
张爱玲记错了 刘铮
叹十声 迈克
——《色，戒》原著和电影
朗 毛尖
邪教主还是孺子牛 陆谷孙
男盗女娼，各有其道 林行止
祖母的祷告词 林达
——一个乡村邻居的故事
书的风景 董桥
书皮的故事 傅月庵
那美好的小院子 陈子善
——从《甘雨胡同六号》签名本说起
瓶中日月长 小白
那夏日的潮水 李黎
——怀念前《夏潮》杂志总编辑苏庆黎
台北故宫故事 张惠菁
吃是一种记忆 舒国治
红旗袍谋杀案 裘小龙
——爱情与死亡的解构

此书为复旦大学中文系副教授严锋先生的随笔集，全书分两部分，前半部分是他作为一个超级大玩家，从小时候制作飞机模型、矿石机、望远镜，到现在玩电子游戏、电子音乐等等，他以穷其究竟的好奇与热情，把他的业余爱好上升到一种专业的了解程度，从文学的角度看游戏，再从游戏的角度看文学，考察它们之间的分合与同异，探讨电脑游戏和文学之间共生同源的现象。后半部分是他和余华等作家之间关于网络与人性、王安忆的小说、《兄弟》等的对话。

《说来话儿长》(精)作者知识广博，视野广阔，信手拈来，涉笔成趣，无论是谈“便便”，还是谈“那话儿”，都给人耳目一新之感。《说来话儿长》(精)为作者在《万象》杂志上的专栏文字的结集。全书正文收文五篇，前冠以黄永玉的序《出恭如也》及黄手绘的“出恭十二图”。从插图及序可以看出，全书的主题正在于人类的“出口”。中国人讲究“进口”，而对“出口”之事不太在意。在长达两千年的文明长河里，此等污秽之语绝少见诸记载，只有少数发生在厕所里的事故借史册流传至今，如《左传》记载：“晋侯将食，张，如厕，陷而卒。”欧洲留下来的资料多，我们因此看到许多令今人瞠目的细节。在中世纪，虽然有法律明令禁止，巴黎人仍然当街倾倒粪便，致使巴黎有“臭都”之称；别的城市也好不了多少，在思想璀璨、群星闪耀的启蒙时代，欧洲的城市还是污秽连天，大街小巷堆满了无法处理的粪便；“太阳王”路易十四居然有坐在马桶上接待王宫贵族的癖好；伦敦桥最初是公共厕所，污物直接落入下面的泰晤士河；欧洲城堡外围的护城河，因为积满了城堡主人的粪便，倒是真正起到了防止外敌入侵的作用。作者知识广博，视野广阔，信手拈来，涉笔成趣，无论是谈“便便”，还是谈“那话儿”，都给人耳目一新之感。