Category: shopping
Page One Bookstore 叶一堂, Beijing
This post is based on one of two very different bookstores in Beijing which I(Chris) visited before the pandemic. First, Page One is a bookstore chain and publisher founded in Singapore in 1983 by Mark Tan (陈家强), which has retail shops built in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand, and in China (since the…
Wangfujing Bookstore 王府井书店, Beijing
The following two posts are about two very different bookstores in Beijing, both visited before the pandemic. The first is Wanfujing Bookstore, situated at the beginning of Wangfujing Dajie (王府井大街), in Dongcheng district 東城區 of central Beijing. I (Chris) was on a business trip and I dragged a very patient colleague along to this bookstore. …
Mariage Frères, London
This visit to London was made in December 2018. The post has been sitting around for a while. We hope the store survives the pandemic with enough local customers while the tourists who frequent Covent Garden are gone. It was a long weekend. On our last day in London, we booked a place for brunch…
Maison Assouline, London
Another post on bookstores. Assouline is a publisher of books that serve as luxury lifestyle accessories. They are based in New York but the flagship store is in London, opened in 2014. We were in London during Christmas 2018. The store is situated between two other book-lovers destinations – Hatchards and Waterstones – mainstream bookstores.…