Category: books
T-Site, Daikanyama 代官山, Tokyo
We spent almost half a day in Daikanyama 代官山, most of the time in the Tsutaya bookstore蔦屋書店. For Chris who has been photographing bookstores (for example, Livraria Cultura in Sao Paulo, Alexandra in Budapest etc.), this Tsutaya branch is a temple for worshipping. In a perfect world, all bookshops near me would be like this. Opened in
Kinokuniya, Kuala Lumpur
A few more posts about Malaysia … My regular readers know that I(Chris) like taking pictures of bookstores and have been posting them online, for example: Alexandre in Budapest, Livraria Cultura in Sao Paulo, MIT Press in Boston, Waterstones in London. As we were wandering in KL’s celebrated shopping mall – Suria KLCC, we found this massive
Alexandra Bookstore, Budapest
Back in fall 2014, we spent a long weekend in Budapest, Hungary. We have a couple more posts on this city before we put up photos from our Malaysian trip. While strolling along Andrássy út (Budapest’s Fifth Avenue), we came across this building with a rather impressive facade. The combination of art nouveau motifs and
Írók Boltja, Budapest
Írók Boltja (Writers’ Bookshop) is located on the busy corner of Andrássy street No. 45 and Liszt Ferenc square. It is just down the street from the gigantic Alexandra (see later post). The store is special because it has a history of more than a hundred years, always connected to writers and poets, and played