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The Read and Rest Hotel

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The latest print-infused hotel has surfaced in Beijing. The Read and Rest Hotel was designed by Office AIO and includes a library dedicated to print magazines and beautifully designed rooms and communal areas for one to kick back and getting some reading done. The hotel library is stocked with a healthy sampling of magazines from around the world. Just how committed to the print experience is the Read and Rest Hotel? Well, when you make your reservation you have the opportunity to share your personal interests so that appropriate print titles can be put in your room! Story and more...

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DIY: Build your own book arch

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Scott Hill, the proprietor of Sandman Books in South Florida,  has shared his secrets on how to make your very own book arch. It begins with a familiar bookseller quandary - what to do with all those books one acquires "that are simply at the end of their lives". Hill decided to do something fun and went to work building a book arch. He built his first one in 2013 and when his shop moved in 2019 he was back at it. The arch has become a bit of tourist destination and next month the first wedding vows will be...

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Another beautiful book space appears in China, this one in a paddy field

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Beijing based Trace Architecture Office has devised this beautiful bookshop to sit between the walls of an old abandoned building in rural China. The shop sits on a paddy field on the outskirts of Xiadi Village in Fuijian province and will be operated by Librairie Avant-Garde, an independent book shop with locations across China. You might remember the name Librairie Avant-Garde, for many believe their shop beneath Wutaichan Stadium in Nanjing is the most beautiful bookshop in China.  Of course, this shop is called Paddy Field Bookstore! More on the architectural particulars of this gorgeous space at de zeen Previously...

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Ive’s Book Brace: A 19th century American bookend

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Hailed as "a valuable invention for booksellers, librarians, clergymen and reading-men" the Ive's book brace hit the market in 1850. It was designed to hold books on partially filled shelves for "As must be well known to all, Books, if allowed to stand loosely upon a shelf, will not retain their original shape for any great length of time." It sure beats the heavy bookends made of marble, bronze and wood that had been around for centuries. It was also 27 years before William Stebbins Barnard would patent the simple sheetmetal bookend.  Charles B. Norton, in addition to being listed on...

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Shanghai: Pop-up perfection for Hauser and Wirth and a new poetry bookshop

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Pixcell Deer by Kohei Nawa Let's start off the new decade in Shanghai featuring what very well could be one of the coolest pop-up bookshops of the last decade and the opening of a new poetry bookshop. In early 2018, inside the art space - bookshop of Modern Eye in Central Shangai, dongqi Architects created a three-story pavilion for the noted art gallery and publisher, Hauser & Wirth. The space featured publications and other goodies and drew its inspiration from the Granary Shed at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Somerset, England. The shed is a traditional English structure used...

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