Trends Lounge book listing

Located at The Place, Trends Lounge is a bookstore and cafe with a wide selection of international art, design and architecture books.

The Great LIFE Photographers
Edited by John Loengard and Gordon Parks, 608pp, Little Brown, 239 yuan
This text explores the careers of every LIFE magazine staff photographer of the 20th century, as well as a handful of others closely affiliated with the magazine, including Alfred Eisenstadt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, Eugene Smith and Joe McNally.

Tank Too
Edited by Masoud Golsorkhi and Andreas Laeufer, 608pp, Thames & Hudson, 259 yuan
Since its inception in 1998, Tank magazine has been at the vanguard of fashion publishing. This book shows the best and brightest young photographers, illustrators and stylists that have graced the large-format magazine during the last eight years.

New Technologies, Products From Phaidon Design Classics
Edited by Phaidon Press, 1,100pp, Phaidon Press, 347 yuan
The objects in this collection are presented chronologically, beginning with an elegant pair of Chinese bonsai scissors from the early 1800s, still in production today. On glancing through the volumes, the reader will gain an understanding not only of the history of design, but the history of taste and culture.

(By He Jianwei)