Bookstore是Shenzhen友谊书城旗下品牌,为其入驻购物中心的一种新尝试,由靳刘高设计(KL&K DESIGN)命名及设计,是集书店、文创店、咖啡馆、儿童绘本馆为一体的生活概念店。覔同觅,因为不见,所以寻觅,所以探索,Bookstore意在成为读者探索的入口,为读者提供一个精神、心灵归属地。
Since its opening in 2014, the bookstore has been widely praised for its design aesthetics and rich connotations, and currently has six stores in Dongguan and Shenzhen, among which Yifang City store in Bao'an District, Shenzhen is the largest and most popular. In the "New Era Cup - 2017 Annual Salute to Chinese Bookstores" event hosted by the China Book Publishing Industry Association, the bookstore (hereinafter referred to as Yifangcheng store) stood out from many participating bookstores across the country and became the only bookstore in Shenzhen to win the title of "The Most Beautiful Bookstore of the Year".
进入2000多平米的Bookstore,更像是进入了一间分成书店、wonderful life(木制精品屋)、coffee for mi(覔咖啡)、器&趣(文创产品)、儿童馆等区域的文化生活馆。贯通书店各个区域的是长达二十余米的书架长廊——“覔缘大道”,长廊前后连接着一虚一实两个“覔”字,虚实之间,如时空隧道般将书与文化联系起来。长廊左边是杂志、港台、英文书架,右边是Shenzhen读书月的推荐读物书架,尽头之处则是书店的中央——由三个同心圆书架构成的飞碟状空间。
Inspired by the British Museum Library in London, the concentric shelves surround people, highlighting the inclusiveness of the bookstore, giving people the feeling of being immersed in a sea of books and embraced by them. In the center of the circular bookshelf is a cylindrical wall, and below it is a circular seat that seats a dozen people. When readers look up, they will find countless bookmarks hanging down above their heads, which is the bookstore's iconic "Dream Tree", where readers can write down their ideals and expectations for the future, hang them on the dream tree, and write the Shenzhen Dream together.
The bookstore now has a total of 200,000 books on the shelves, mainly humanities and social sciences and children's books. In addition to the two main exhibition areas of the long corridor and the circular bookshelf, there is also an independent study area for philosophy, history and art, which respectively displays books in three categories: philosophy, history and art. The children's picture book library covers an area of up to 300 square meters, and the bookshelves are customized according to the height of children, with a large number of fairy tales and stories on them. In addition, the bookstore has also opened a separate teaching and auxiliary materials area, which occupies a series of primary and secondary school teaching and auxiliary materials such as Xue Jinxing and Wang Houxiong, which have tormented generations of students, and will continue to become a nightmare for countless primary and secondary school students.
Of course, like most bookstores, the café section of the bookstore offers readers snacks, drinks, and a quieter, spacious, and more comfortable reading environment. The cultural and creative area is like a medium-sized cultural and creative supermarket, with a large number of exquisite cultural and creative products, and stationery and art products beyond imagination for readers to choose from. The unique feature is Wonderful Life, which is located in front of the bookstore, and is equipped with a variety of beautiful wooden music boxes, as well as other exquisite wooden boutiques, which are still very good as gifts.
The most touching thing is that the bookstore in the shopping area of every inch of land has also set up more than 300 free reading seats, which is unimaginable, especially in an era when bookstores can survive only by catering and selling books, which can be said to be quite rare, and has also won unanimous praise from readers.