Over the years, Beijing SKP has become the irreplaceable first choice for many customers with its fashionable and high-quality brand resources and professional and comfortable shopping services. In order to interpret the concept of “reading is also a trend”, Beijing SKP took the bookstore as a starting point, subverted the inherent framework, and built this unique urban living mixed space with breakthrough design ideas.

(The interior view of the bookstore is from the Internet)

SKP RENDEZ-VOUS is also actively exploring more possibilities beyond work and life. It will invite writers, artists, designers, and creators to hold in-depth dialogues, art exhibitions, food and wine tastings, floral courses and other activities. Let culture and design, art, and food blend together, so that this place is always full of vitality.

(The interior view of the bookstore is from Heika)

If we want to bring books to the future, we will bring:

“The Value of Science: Top Evolutionary Biologist Dawkins Reveals His Scientific Values ​​for the First Time”

[英] Richard Dawkins, Jia Yongmin’s translation of Zhanlu culture|Tianjin Science and Technology Press June 2020

Recommended reason:

“The Selfish Gene” is an enlightenment book for countless people to understand evolutionary thought. Its author has published a new book “The Value of Science”, which shows us his more comprehensive and profound scientific thought. Zhejiang University professor Wang Liming said: Dawkins’ thinking goes beyond biology itself, points to human reason, explores nature, and even imagines the various life forms and wisdom forms that may exist in the universe.

“The latter half of human civilization is inseparable from science,” said Zheng Yongchun, a planetary science expert. “Science is not an island. Its mission is to understand the world, tell us what the world is like, why it is so, and thus influence humanity. Three views.” Therefore, understanding the nature of science is extremely important, whether it is now or in the future, because it allows us to know what is driving the progress of human civilization, and where may it lead us?

“The Way of Travel: Enlightenment from the Road”

Author: [美]Paul Solu, Zhang Yun’s translation of the Utopia|Guangxi Normal University Press, September 2020

Recommended reason:

If I want to bring a book to the future, I will definitely bring a book about travel. Because even if the future traffic is extremely developed, the two places can be reached instantly, but we still need to feel and measure the journey with our eyes and body. And if you want to read a book about travel, Paul Solu’s “The Way of Travel” must not be missed.

The book contains many inspiring stories of great explorers and travellers, as well as travel experiences and experiences written by literary masters. Samuel Johnson, Stevenson, Hemingway, Henry James, DH Lawrence, Gide, Nabokov… On the way to a foreign country, the writers constantly touched on the vast and faint scenery and the jagged scenery. In life, they extract unfamiliar experiences from a foreign perspective, and thus explore the ways of human existence and thinking. Between here and elsewhere, travelers bring back stories from far away and reap rich lives.

“The Way of Travel” is a roaming guide for all literary readers. It is also a collection of aphorisms, pocket books and memoirs to carry with you. The moment we opened the page, we involuntarily embarked on the only way; the moment we set off, we inevitably began to write our own lives.

“Oxford Notes”

Zhang Lifen, Xuelin Publishing House, September 2020

Recommended reason:

The author uses straightforward words and precious black-and-white images to record what he saw, heard and felt during a guest semester at Oxford University. In the book, the author talks about current affairs, life, allusions, and childhood, expressing his knowledge of the West. Thinking about the field and caring for humanistic value. Although “Oxford Notebooks” is introduced as “the whole story is structured in a diary style”, we can feel the weight of history from the book. In the book, Zhang Lifen only records his experience during a guest semester in Oxford, but from his continuous writing, we can see his experience in the past few decades and the history of exchanges between China and Britain over the past 30 years.

I want to take this book to the future because we can get a deeper understanding of an extremely real Britain in the book. At the same time, we can also find in the book the “principles” that should be followed whether it is in the past, present or future: study, Ask and think.

“Technology and Civilization: Our Time and Future”

Zhang Xiaoyu page丨Guangxi Normal University Press March 2021

Recommended reason:

What is the boundary between man and machine? Can we say that machines have replaced traditional genetic evolution and are a new form of human evolution, called a more efficient way to change human “traits”? How to understand the current relationship between Made in China and the world? Why is it said that in a technological society, everyone is equal, but technical experts are more “equal” than others. This is something that must happen when entering a technological society?

From the perspective of technology-driven, the author of this book selects 14 key historical moments from the two thousand years of human history to gain insight into the irreversible destiny of mankind. I want to take this book to the future because I want to use it to reflect on the profound impact that ever-upgrading technology has brought to us humans and to human civilization.

“The Japanese Wave in Paris Fashion”

[日] Kawamura Yuhiye Shi Jihan Translated by Chongqing University Press September 2018

Recommended reason:

Fashion, in an era when human material civilization is extremely rich and steadily rising, it will only penetrate deeper and deeper into people’s lives. The future of fashion for everyone may not be far away. Therefore, understanding the nature of fashion seems to be a key to prying into the future world.

And when it comes to fashion, you can’t get around the world’s greatest fashion capital-Paris. Through its haute couture, demi-couture, and prt-porter classification system, the Parisian fashion industry has created a highly structured and strictly controlled system that is difficult for non-Western designers to penetrate. However, a group of influential Japanese designers broke into this system and influenced the entire Paris fashion industry.

How did they do that? The author Yuhito Kawamura discusses this issue, and at the same time raises more questions: Does this system promote or inhibit new creativity? Does the current fashion industry focus more on the commercial shaping of product images, rather than the clothing itself? Without Saint Laurent, Miyake, Kenzo, where will the French fashion industry go? This insightful book delves into the fashion wave that Japan set off in Paris for the first time, and raises a series of provocative questions about the future of the industry.