Wednesday, January 9, 2008

If Bookstores in LA looked like this, I'd probably read a lot more...

Was perusing the Cool Hunter (congrats to them on the Weblog Award for Best Culture Blog of 2007), when I stumbled upon this. The Selexyz Dominicanen in the Netherlands has to be the sickest bookstore i've ever seen- it surely beats the Borders in Westwood. The store was built inside an 800 year old former Dominican church:

The space was designed by Amsterdam based architechts Merkx + Girod - What is up with the Dutch having the superhuman ability to kickass at design?! I want whatever they're drinking (smoking?):


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