The restaurant is called Brushstroke, a much anticipated Japanese restaurant about to open in New York City, and the walls of the bar/lounge are made of 12,000 used paperbacks!
The Gothamist notes in their post on the opening the potential problems of such an undertaking “Who will be the first sake-bombed customer to idly pull out one of the books and bring the entire restaurant crashing down?”
The interior was designed by Super Potato
From the photo above it looks like, with some minor tinkering, the the room can be turned into a Kafkaesque biblio-prision for the illiterate.