Ten inventive bookshop interiors designed to enhance the browsing experience
A second-hand bookstore styled like a greengrocer and an outlet modelled on old libraries are among the projects collected in our latest lookbook, which explores bookshop interior designs.
Architects and designers across the globe have created bookstores with striking interiors that offer more than just a place to buy things.
From a hall of zigzagged staircases in China to a yellow-hued grotto in east London, here are 10 bookshop interiors that provide immersive and unusual browsing experiences.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring brutalist interiors, light-filled atriums and walk-in wardrobes.
Photo is by Hu Yanyun
Deja Vu Recycle Store, China, by Offhand Practice Chinese architecture studio Offhand Practice designed a second-hand bookshop in Shanghai to mimic the interior of a greengrocer by displaying items in familiar supermarket-style crates.
Created to counter the "shabby" image commonly associated with second-hand retailers, Deja Vu Recycle Store features a light interior defined by stone off-cut mosaic tiles and natural pine.
"[The project] breaks the stereotypical image of a second-hand store and erases the ritualistic impression of a traditional bookstore full of full-height bookshelves," said Offhand Practice.
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Photo is by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen
New Mags, Denmark, by Norm Architects
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