In the era of e-books and online shops, when the classic book trade has come under increasing pressure, the success of a bookshop is by no means a foregone conclusion. Booksellers confront these new challenges with very different economic strategies and conceptual measures. Spatial concepts, furnishings and design are indispensable ingredients of a successful sales strategy for newer as well as more tradition-steeped bookstores. People like to linger – and buy – where they feel comfortable. This volume is dedicated to the most beautiful bookstores in the world. The old and the new, classical and innovative, giant stores and paradises in miniature for bibliophiles: What they all have in common is that they create a desire for books and prove that the bookshop as institution will always fulfil a need and without a doubt enjoys a future.

Book Shops: Long-Established and the Most Fashionable

Arts & Photography

Markus Sebastian Braun

Architecture

Braun Publishing AG

Doors are prominent and essential elements of all buildings. They pave the way into and out of a building. Thus, doors are simultaneously an article of daily use and an explicit statement of the homeowner. They can serve as an invitation just as well as a

Architectural Details: Doors

Verlaghaus - Braun

Windows serve as the eye of the house. They provide contact between the internal world of a building and the world outside ? windows permit light, air and glances to move into the space but also establish a connection to the outer world for all people ins

Architectural Details: Windows

Architectural Details - Facades

Fa ades need to fulfill functional as well as aesthetical values: they have to provide an all-season protection against meteorological conditions, fit in its surrounding space but simultaneously present an own individuality and finally communicate the pur

Braun

First of all: Stairs are an essential structure for crossing height differences ? whether dynamic or elegant, modern or traditional, narrow or spacious. But beside this function as an article of daily use stairs are also a medium

Architectural Details: Stairs. (Architectural Details)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Braun.Thames Huddson LBS

Sekai no mado.

Madoka Sugiyama

Gurafikkusha

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