Danish studio Norm Architects has designed a flagship bookstore for distributor New Mags that features stone plinths and pivoting wooden walls.
Norm Architects looked to classic libraries for inspiration for the project, which was commissioned by a Scandinavian distributor of coffee table books.
Wooden shelves and stone plinths are used to display books in the New Mags store
"As inspiration for the project, we looked thoroughly at spaces that are a book-lover's paradise ? the library," Norm Architects co-founder Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen told Dezeen.
"We looked at old libraries with large wooden shelving, long study tables and library lamps in old buildings, where beautiful and large volumes were packed in shelves alongside prominent sculptures and ornamental moldings." The bookshop is located in central Copenhagen
The local architecture studio wanted to transform the "silo-like" interior of the 100 square-metre space, which is set in a newbuild in inner-city Copenhagen, into a more easily manageable space that would also function as an office for New Mags' marketing department.
"The space was relatively small and with its high ceilings, it had an almost silo-like feeling," Bjerre-Poulsen said.
"The space had an irregularity and was quite narrow and deep but had large windows facing the street."
It features concrete floors and walls
"The only thing we had to work with from the existing architecture, was therefore the light g...