一本关于生活设计哲学的书

A book about the living design philosophy

一本浓缩了24家精选家居品牌经营理念的书

A book concentrate 24 well-chosen brand about living idea

一本生活玩家，玩味生活人士爱不释手的书

A book which is loved by the living player

一本设计师灵感来源的书

A book for you to touch the design afflatus

一本值得室内设计师、建筑师、家居产品设计师、平面设计师共同拥有的书

A book for all the interior designer、architect、furniture disigner and plane designer

在中国这个热衷重建的年代，发展商到处兜售各自的生活方式，所谓理想人居住让大家辩得面红耳赤。所谓生活态度亦被迅猛增长的购买力兼收并蓄、信手拈来、快速抛弃，成为中国式的速食文化。

全球化亦深深影响着分布在全球的有着不同信仰的家居品牌，他们与跨行业、跨国界的设计师合作，他们委托同样的制造厂生产，他们用同样的方式销售……

全球化为他们提供了无可比拟的资本、人才、市场条件，全球化亦可称为他们的坟墓。如何保持自己的差异化的设计、生产与销售优势。保持自我独特的设计哲学，如何在同化浪潮中寻求异化是他们面临的最大的挑战。我们在全球精选了24个家居品牌，从遥远的北欧，到意大利、德国、英国、瑞典、荷兰等欧洲国家，到美国，甚至到邻近的日本、香港……不同的文化背景，不同的地域分布，形成他们独特的性格，对生活的不同见解。虽然，他们本身也是全球化的一部分，但他们通过差异化的定位，选择与重组，使到即使是最微细的部分，也被打上最个性化的烙印，从而产生异化的效应。如果你是家居业者、建筑师、产品设计师或平面设计师，因职业习惯而拿起本书，又或者只是应机缘，巧合拿起这本书的，我们都希望透过每一段品牌的故事及对华，与你分享他们的品牌成长历程，对品质、细节的关注，及对创新孜孜不倦地追求，共同思考其对生活理念的选择和追求，感受这全球化历程中，异化精神的创意冲击，甚至为你的生活带来一点启示。

The globalization seems to have been inevitable, and in the age of being favored in the reconstruction in China, the developers sell their respective life styles everywhere, and everyone has argued to be flushed for the so-called human residence. The so-called life attitude is also absorbed, picked up and quickly abandoned by the purchasing power that is quickly growing, and becomes Chinese –style fast-food culture.

The globalization also deeply affects the household brands distributed around.The whole world and having the different beliefs ,and they cooperate with the designers across the industries and across the national boundaries, and they commission the same manufac-turer to produce, and they sell in the same way……

The globalization has provided them with the unexampled conditions for the capital, the talent and the market, and the globalization can also become their grave. How to keep their own differentiated advantages for the design, the production and the sales, and how to maintain their own design philosophy, and how to pursue the dissimilation in the wave of the assimilation is the biggest challenges they are facing.We have elaborately selected 24 household brands in the whole world, from the faraway North Europe, to ltaly, Germany ,UK, Sweden and Netherlands, to USA, and even to the neighboring Japan and Hong Kong……The different cultural backgrounds and the different regional distribution have formed their unique characteristics and the different opinions for the life. Although, they themselves are also part of the globalization, through the differentiated orientation, selection and recombination, they have fulfilled that even if the most tenuos part has also been marked with the most individualized brand, thus to produce the effects in the dissimilation.

If you are an architect, a product designer ,a graphic designer or a practitioner in the human residence domain, taking up this book for the professional habit, or just by chance ,through each segment of the story and the dialogue for the brand ,we wish to share the growing course of their brands ,the attention for the quality, the detail and pursuit for the life idea together, and to feel the impacts of the originality in the dissimilation spirit in the course of the globalization and even bring some inspirations for you life.