Those Taipei Pianmen Bookstores that are easy to pass by and miss

foreword

I wrote 2 guide articles about Taipei-style bookstores half a year ago. There is no follow-up (covering my face) until now. Thank you @Matty for launching a community essay activity on the map of the bookstore in Matt City. Now it seems that I have to start writing. .

Because the list of personal pocket bookstores is still very long, it may be turned into a series at present (so I have been procrastinating... kneeling), after chatting with other citizens under the essay writing activity, I came up with the Greater Taipei Bookstore/Reading Space that I planned to publish. The complete series is planned as follows:

• There are about 10 secret and unpopular bookstores that have been in arrears for a long time, and it is tentatively scheduled to be introduced in one article;
• There are more than ten characteristic independent bookstores around Greater Taipei, and the book will be written with the title of 2 books about Taipei’s characteristic bookstores;
• The characteristic reading space that does not sell books, some units even know that there are very few users, I hope that this will allow everyone to enter these unpopular books or literature collections and use them more, and reserve 2 pages;
• The last part is a memorial article for the defunct bookstore. The list needs to be sorted out, so the length is undetermined.

According to the previous habit, I will mainly write records based on the fact that I have actually visited and removed the stores that have been introduced by other authors on Matters. The photos are mainly taken when I actually visit the scene, unless the store has a prohibition on taking pictures. Or because there are no aerial photos available at the event site, photo excerpts will be made from the store's official website.

A degree of stereo laboratory

Early pop-up books were not children's books as the general public thought, but information processing tools for adults; in medieval Europe, they were used as teaching aids in professional fields such as astronomy and medicine; until the mid-18th century, special Three-dimensional children's books for children only appeared.

The birth of a pop-up book must be fully presented by combining the three-dimensional structure, art design, story narration, interactive mechanism and complicated procedures of the maker.

Youdu founded Wenxin Zixiu, a senior collector who has collected more than 4,000 pop-up books from all over the world in the past 20 years. In view of the lack of oriental culture in the content of pop-up books, Youdu Publishing was established, which is the first company in the Chinese community to focus on creating oriental themes Pop-up book for the design team. In addition to selling well-published pop-up books and handmade books, the bookstore space also holds various hand-made book experience courses from time to time, and can also assist in negotiating overseas pop-up book products.

Address: No. 6, Lane 123, Section 2, Jianguo South Road, Taipei City

Mangasick Comics Private Warehouse

Mangasick is an underground comic book store hidden in the mansion, with no obvious identification of the secret basement at the entrance (physically and essentially underground), first-time visitors often fail to enter through the door, find the correct address, have the courage to ring the bell, be bold A heaven and earth that can only be found after walking down the stairs and through the heavy iron gate.

Mangasick mainly focuses on the creation of alternative images, especially the possibility of expression in the form of comics. Mangasick holds an exhibition every month, publishes books from time to time, introduces the products or collections in the store through activities and book selection, and also excavates and organizes information on underground creators in Taiwan, Japan and other places.

In addition to merchandise sales and exhibition spaces, Mangasick also offers paid reading areas. The Chinese collection is mainly based on 18+ youth comics; the Japanese comic collection includes various types of non-mainstream works from 1960 to 2010, including comics, picture albums, magazines, zine, and review books. Many Taiwan, Japan, China and Hong Kong can be purchased here. There are many rare objects that are hard to find in general bookstores.

Address: B1, No. 2, Alley 10, Lane 244, Section 3, Roosevelt Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City

d/art Taipei

d/art, born in 2017, is an important animation cultural landmark in Ximending. d/art has planned many "world's first" original special exhibitions. It is one of the few spaces in Taiwan that actively invites animation artists or painters. d/art is also working hard to promote the Taiwan-Japan Writers Exhibition, hoping to promote more local excellent writers, get to know Taiwan's excellent works, and produce many Taiwan-limited original products and books.

The store on the 2nd floor often has many limited goods imported from Japan and the albums of animation artists. The gallery on the 3rd floor often holds exhibitions, lectures, autographs and other activities. It is a rare opportunity to get close to the artists who hide behind the animation works. .

Address: 2F, No. 14, Section 2, Wuchang Street, Wanhua District, Taipei City

punding

Hidden in the alleys and alleys, Pengding is a remodeled three-story old building with a comfortable atmosphere and minimalist style.

The bookstore on the 1st floor of Pengding provides domestic and foreign books and magazines for exhibition and sale, as well as many independent publications, publications, cultural and creative products, etc. The second floor is a comprehensive exhibition space, which can also provide guests with rest, drinks and meals, while the third floor is often used. Hold contemporary art exhibitions, showcasing cutting-edge artistic concept works at home and abroad.

Address: No. 6, Lane 53, Section 1, Zhongshan North Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City

wild flowers

Wild Flower is a super-personal independent bookstore (both the owner and the bookstore itself). Wild Flower is located in Chifeng Commercial District, Zhongshan, the most lively gathering place for literary and youth in Taipei. Although it is opened in a retro old house, it mainly sells Many non-mainstream illustrations, personal publications and creative products are full of strong experimental styles, and many publications may involve nudity, violence, eroticism and other topics, so it is a bookstore that rejects minors and is only for adults.

I have encountered several stalls of wild flowers at Xiaozhi Market. I am deeply impressed by the ability of the boss of wild flowers to collect bizarre, absurd and eccentric publications on various topics. He has a very special adult-style humor and crazy whimsy. Flowers, break many of the conditioned frameworks in life, and you will have a pleasant feeling of opening your brain.

Address: No. 7, Lane 69, Section 1, Chengde Road, Datong District, Taipei City (No minors, no photography)

Khan Niu Bookstore

Hanniu Bookstore is an art and cultural relic bookstore specializing in professional publications of oriental ancient art. It collects books from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Europe and the United States, museum special exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, information magazines, ancient books, etc. Its artistic varieties cover a wide range and are full of specialization depth, including ceramics, jade, swords, potted plants, tea ceremony, flower arrangement, incense ceremony, sculpture, bronze, study, calligraphy and painting, cultural relics and archaeology, fine art, etc. More than 150 types of Asian culture and art pictures Code.

Many of the customers of Hanniu Bookstore are antique dealers, cultural relic collectors, or ancient art researchers who buy and sell antiques. They buy books to use as tools, and use the knowledge provided by these professional books to date and evaluate objects. . There are many books in the Hanniu Bookstore that are difficult to obtain. The owner of the store often travels to Japan to obtain scriptures, and even searches for rare books according to ancient books.

The founder of Hanniu Bookstore, Lin Guoqin, prides himself on being a bridge between books and antiques, and is proud that Hanniu is a treasure trove of oriental art. There are also many precious sets of books in the store. Today, it is not easy to find a set of books in the world. The catalogs or special books that have been out of stock and out of print for a long time may still have a chance to find treasures here.

Address: No. 7-2, Alley 17, Lane 147, Section 3, Xinyi Road, Daan District, Taipei City

Sanger Design Bookstore

"Sanger Design Bookstore" is located on the 14th floor of Sesame Building (formerly Zhongxing Department Store) on Fuxing North Road. It is said to be the highest bookstore in downtown Taipei (laughs). The changing development of Taiwan's design industry.

Sanger is focusing on various design professional fields, combining with book reading in physical stores, design workshops, small exhibition spaces, pop-up bookstores and online bookstores and other diversified modes of operation, creating a friendly and comfortable design space, providing designers full of people creative energy.

The interior of Sanger was originally in a classical style, and various book areas were classified into different categories. The overall space was darker, because Boss Shi’s son and friends organized a book club. Often at this gathering, young people noticed that Sanger’s space design did not match. Today's consumers demand, so further workshops are formed to use scientific methods to discuss space transformation.

After Sanger’s renovation, white is used as the keynote of the space, which makes the overall visual effect larger, and the moving lines are also re-planned, turning it into a multi-functional space. The bookshelves are no longer marked with the categories of books, which not only makes the vision more refreshing, but also increases the fun of “treasure hunting” for customers. Every book sold by Sanger provides a free book cover service. This is a very resource-intensive and labor-intensive matter for the bookstore, but this is Boss Shi who loves and cherishes books. The mind that can be preserved forever in the hands.

Address: Room 14F17, No. 15, Fuxing North Road, Songshan District, Taipei City

Moom bookshop

Moom bookshop is located in the alleys of the East District of Taipei. It mainly sells books related to photography and art, and introduces overseas independent publications and independent magazines. moom bookshop collects independent art publishers from all over the world, introduces photography collections and independent publications of many master photographers or emerging photographers, presents their unique tastes and classic photography works to Taiwan, and expands the horizons of photography book fans.

Moom bookshop often organizes photography theme exhibitions or photography book exhibitions, and it is a major feature to curate various themes with photography works or outputs.

Address: No. 16, Alley 8, Lane 251, Section 3, Zhongxiao East Road, Daan District, Taipei City