The lobby of Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore in Zhen Yuan, China designed by Shanghai based studio XL-Muse: a cavernous curved roof, shelved with books and a polished black marble floor to create the optical illusion.
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That’s beautiful.
my dream home
I can see myself scrabbling at the floor to get to the ‘other’ books under the floor.
The ‘other’ books are held in the back room if you’d like a private read.
The wiring is not very neat.
Nice spot, yeah it’s messy alright.
Style over substance.
I’m dizzy
You should send your CV in to Exposé.
haha
Look at my books…please…
I have a lot of books.
I have more books than you.
I know I didn’t read them, but I’m still smarter than you because I have a lot of books. You only have the Internet, you idiot. I HAVE BOOKS, so Yeah…
It’s a bookstore.
They have big books and they cannot lie.
LOL. Spot on
Hello Inferiority Complex. Splendid afternoon, what what? What? Oh.
That is insanely cool.
You’d have to be very selective with who you stock it with. Wouldn’t want Cecilia Ahern’s non-union Chinese equivalent grubbying the place up.
Yeah but…
…the narcissism is unnecessary.
N’est ce pas?
You think the books are narcissistic?
Not at all, my young friend.
I was just thinking about how if you have nothing at all worth saying you can always fall back on ‘I love Libraries’, even if the last time you were in one the rest of your class was with you.
Silence.
You’re not wrong about the afternoon.
Libraries are sexy
shhhhshhh
Forgive me.
I have a problem with people who read stuff.
– And that’s why I write.*
*quick nod to Doug Stanhope there.