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Christian, the Hermes president, is the one who places the book on his bedside. Books are the most important luxury for him, as they are not connected to money. “No machine, electronic device or advanced technology can replace the hands and soul-nourishing accumulation of time.” This is luxury.” After spending a lot of time reading about Hermes, I began to understand that “taking time to care for yourself and enriching your mind in silence are more important than buying luxury.” To make a replica hermes bag worth more, it seems you have to improve yourself. The few books I purchased before the holidays are my secret for achieving calm. These books are fascinating because they don’t invite you to read but rather to “play” with them. They encourage you to manipulate and “manipulate”, like “luxury objects that enrich knowledge.”
The last book that I read was “Six Records of a Floating Life”, which is a representative of Chinese aesthetics. It’s very “romantic” whether it’s in the binding or content. The book celebrates romantic love with a message that encourages “loving someone for a lifetime.” This can be seen as heresy in a culture where men have multiple wives. Shen Fu does not only praise the beauty of loyalty, but elevates it even to the status of “life is a dream,” in which a good spouse becomes the spiritual foundation of his life. It is important to show this to unfaithful males to show the superior consciousness our ancestors had.
The red wedding invitation-like binding immediately strikes me as a romantic book. Dual binding, vertical printing and red and gold create an oriental aesthetic. The artisanal binding of this type is extremely laborious, and only human hands can fully realize it. It takes 25 workers three and a quarter months to complete a small book! Unquestionably, such a spirit of craftsmanship to communicate the essence art is a luxury. This fan printing style is ideal for expressing Chinese cultural values.
A second book, “Watching a Play”, combines images and content even better. The book’s design is based on a ticket for a theatre performance, and the goal is to immerse readers in an exciting show. The book’s introduction is similar to raising the curtain of a stage. It features texts and illustrations by Beijing opera performers, which present a hundred classical Chinese operas.
The two books mentioned above are a bit distant from the modern world, whereas “The Most Beautiful Book in the World,” or “Order?” is a book that has won awards. The Story of Fangyuan, which records small stories from contemporary life and is easy to understand, has recently become my favorite novel. I bought a collectible edition and the owner even wrote a poem and drew his own self-portrait. The book is based on Mr. Lu Zhonghua’s self-portraits. Instead of signing or stamping every order, this bookstore owner draws a portrait of himself as a distinctive mark. The orders show the changes in the new China, and also the simple, yet real details of everyday life. This book is like a TV show; you can’t wait to get to the next chapter. You may even forget to eat or sleep. Each page is bound in a stylish way, with a canvas-covered cover. It contains customer orders, photos of family members, and pictures of children, creating a “leakage” effect. The clever design makes it possible to sense the author’s subtle intention.
I thought about why the book won a world prize. Perhaps it was the relaxed and realistic tone that helped the world understand the bitterness of the Chinese people today. The author Mr. Fangyuan did not hesitate to include the entire documentary text, including drawings made by his grandson, and childlike writings such as “I love grandpa, and mom.” The gesture speaks a thousand word.
It was a book that took “metaphysical aesthetics to the extreme. When you think of China, the food is hard to ignore. I thought that “Tofu”, a cookbook about cooking, was just that. The book looks ordinary at first, but when you hold it, the tofu texture on the cover is almost warm. To achieve this sensation, a special “oilpaper” was selected, and the weight of the book was also adjusted to mimic that of actual tofu. I later realized my mistake in thinking that it was just about food. The book uses tofu as a bridge between yesterday’s China and today’s China. From Yuan dynasty essay to “Camel Xiangzi,” it lists everything related to the tofu, including calligraphy, paintings, historical anecdotes, in essays by great masters. It is enlightening to see how a piece of tofu can be used to represent the whole Chinese culture.
The book “Seven Days and Seven Nights: Love as in Broad Daylight”, which also incorporates a “naturalistic” aesthetic into its content, is similar. The summary at first glance appeared to be a Chinese romance story with an acrylic shell as a mere showpiece. After careful reading, emotional immersion was strong. The title “Seven Days & Seven Nights, love as in broad daylight” describes seven consecutive days and seven nights, using seven different types of paper. This advances the plot. The combination of textual content and light and shadow, along with the rising and falling of the sun allows the reader to feel changes as they flip through the book.
The content of books is no longer important; what matters most is the ability to interact with them. Beautiful books can transform flat paper into something beautiful fake hermes wallet. I recently bought a book entitled “Dolly”, which documents the history behind the first living person to be cloned using technology. I then turned it into a jigsaw puzzle! As you read, each page is marked with silhouettes that represent Dolly, the sheep. You can then assemble the little sheep into a 3D object. This is not nothing. This sense of accomplishment can motivate you to keep reading. The book “10 Chairs” is an even more amazing artistic presentation. It does not use complex text, but instead presents important chairs from history as paintings.