Tag: bookstore

  • Maison Assouline, London

    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.…

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  • 25 Bookstores and counting …

    25 Bookstores and counting …

    We love bookstores and Chris has been posting our visits on the blog. So far we have 25 bookstores from around the world from Moscow to Tokyo. Below is a sample of the posts, click on the link to see them. Moscow, House of Books Tokyo, T-site As much as Amazon is a threat especially…

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  • Breakthrough Book Gallery 突破書廊, Hong Kong

    Breakthrough Book Gallery 突破書廊, Hong Kong

    When I(Chris) was in Hong Kong during Easter, I came across this bookstore. Breakthrough (突破) was a magazine that was published between 1973 and 1999. When I was in secondary school in Hong Kong, I was a school librarian and flipped through it. The history of the magazine, the social movement and its activities are described here.…

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  • Kinokuniya, Kuala Lumpur

    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…

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  • Bookcafé in Alexandra and the Vigadó, Budapest

    Bookcafé in Alexandra and the Vigadó, Budapest

    Inside the branch of Alexandra bookstore located inside the now-defunct Paris Department Store (Párizsi Nagy Áruház, Andrássy út 39) is one of the more beautiful café in Europe. Click here for our post on the bookstore. After entering the Alexandra Bookstore on the ground floor you’ll find a pair of escalators which bring you up to the…

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  • 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…

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