and this is one I really would love to visit,
Dujiangyan Zhongshuge, is a bookstore in Dujiangyan, China, which has an amazing interior, all photographs X+Living,
although only 2 stories high it vaulted ceilings and shelves of books seem to go on forever,
the
store relies on strategically placed mirrors and gleaming black tile floor to
create a stunning illusion,
the
roughly 10,500-square-foot bookshop was designed by Li Xiang, founder of
Shanghai-based architecture studio X+Living, and inaugurated in the Fall of
2020. Using clever elements like spiralling staircases, curved archways and
strategically-placed mirrors, the designers of this unique bookstore were able
to create a downright stunning illusion of infinity,
the Chinese
bookseller Zhongshuge is renowned for its awe-inspiring bookstores, but its
latest venue, in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, takes the cake for the most stunning
yet. Li Xiang reportedly took a month to design the place and the construction
process lasted five months, one trick the designers used to achieve this infinity visual
effect was to covering the upper shelves with a print of shelved books rather
than actual books, so it would appear that books stretched from floor to
ceiling, “If we placed real books on the upper shelves, it’s not only
hard for readers to reach them but also difficult for operators to take care
of,” Li said. “The store already has a collection of over 80,000 books, so
there’s actually no waste of space.”
in the video above there is the statement, 'there might be more people coming to take photographs than read books' I think that may well be correct!
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