Monday, January 14, 2008

Beauteous Bookstores

The 10 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World. Ah, but is aesthetic architecture and design truly a beautiful bookstore make? Well, yes, on one level. But a bookworm's vision of a beautiful bookstore involves much more idiosyncratic and intangible criteria involving memory, emotion, the stock, etc. Many a store that would be considered ugly in a purely aesthetic sense, but be beautiful in the eyes of its loyal customers. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

(Via Bookninja)

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