It's not easy to find in Sanlitun, Beijing, because it's relatively low-key and introverted, and there are no big billboards and no bright and dazzling appearance, so even if you pass by, it will inevitably be ignored. When I first went to PageOne, I wandered around Uniqlo, Adi and Sanlitun Bar Street and had to ask for security. He asked, "Is it a bookstore? Isn't that it? " His finger bookstore is behind me!
The first page means reading from the first page, and it also has a unique Chinese name "Ye Tang Yi". In Sanlitun, it exists in the architectural style of wooden houses, and everything can be seen through French windows. Its design style is novel and interesting, and its taste is exquisite, which makes people unforgettable. Sanlitun Store has two floors, covering an area of about 1500 square meters, and mainly sells original foreign language books and design books.
In PageOne Sanlitun store, it is relatively relaxed and comfortable. The overall decoration style of the bookstore is elegant, relatively young, fashionable and highly personalized. You will feel that you come to the bookstore not only for reading, but also for the atmosphere and mood. The front door of the shop faces the fashion steps. A couple sat on the steps, taking beautiful photos of books and surrounded by music. They couldn't help feeling happy.
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On the first floor, the owner wants to sell books on art, design and architecture, including English and Japanese versions, as well as some classic books and popular children's picture books. The store also consciously guides readers, and the new book is recommended on the high shelf on the right hand side of the entrance. The decoration in the store is full of design sense, the wooden bookshelves are very friendly, and the ingenious design of each bookshelf at different heights is also very comfortable. The books are placed with originality, and the readers at the bookshelf are in an endless stream; Looking at exquisite books and towering bookshelves, my heart suddenly opened up. The unique atmosphere of the bookstore is fascinating, and the exquisite book cover, artistic illustrations, ink-scented books and high-quality printing are pleasing to the eye. When you run your finger across a textured book and listen to the sound of turning pages, you can feel a kind of pleasure that e-books can't match.
Where there are steps, there are always people taking pictures and taking videos. In a stepped bookstore, it is also a place full of emotion and intimacy. When the footsteps fall on the steps piled with books, it seems as if stepping on the rhythm of music, and the whole person dances briskly.
PageOne on the second floor mainly sells children's books, gourmet travel books, humanities and social science books, literary novels, stationery and gifts. Wandering in the children's reading area, watching adults take their children to read, explain with books, and follow these picture books through childhood, whether it is the story of pigs, the story of Popeye eating spinach, or the wisdom of two generations of love, people can appreciate the warm time of childhood.
There is a large space on the second floor where all kinds of gifts and stationery are sold, and the price is not cheap, as well as books in English. It is said that the profits of bookstores mainly depend on them. Looking at all kinds of exquisite gifts, I really like them. In front of the rows of original English books, I forced to turn them over, and the wider world in the book made people yearn for it. Keigo Higashino, Zhu Guangqian, Haruki Murakami, Feng Youlan and other bookshelves are lingering readers in the literature area of humanities and social sciences.
Bookstores are like "matchmakers", which connect the author's thoughts with readers and let books with different ideas communicate with readers spiritually. The bookstore does not provide seats for rest and reading. In different types of library areas, readers sit on the floor or stand on the bookshelf, and live in harmony with each other in a comfortable posture. People who focus on books have written the prosperity of bookstores.
In the coffee shop supporting the bookstore, people drinking coffee or bowing their heads to play computer reprimanded Fang Qiu in their own world. The open-air food area contrasts with the people reading in the store, and the overall atmosphere is better. Even if you browse the books you are interested in and read them slowly, the staff will not bother and urge you. Outside Sanlitun Bookstore is a lively bar street and a fashionable consumption area. Looking at the bustling outside through the glass, I feel quiet for this quiet book space and linger for this literary space.
The target group of PageOne is middle and high-end readers, which is very suitable in Sanlitun, a lively and fashionable place. As a cultural landmark of Sanlitun, it is worth mentioning that the concerts in the bookstore are played at different times in the morning, noon and evening according to the readers' mood, which easily resonates with people. Looking at the scenery outside the window in a daze in the bookstore, or watching the readers coming and going in the store, or indulging in books, is a wonderful enjoyment anyway. Reading in the bookstore is always brisk and makes people reluctant to go.
PageOne was founded in 1983 and headquartered in Singapore, featuring in selling design books, original English books and traditional Chinese books. At present, it also has branches in Thailand, Taiwan Province Province, Beijing International Trade Center, Wangjing and other places, and has its own readership. Sanlitun Store is located in the northeast corner of Taikooli South District, Sanlitun, Chaoyang District, Beijing. People who love books, this is a scenery you can't miss. (Author Chen Jiaxian)