Idea Books – I die
Wow wee. I finally made it to the Idea Books pop-up shop at St Martins Lane Hotel. If you know Dover Street Market, you’ll know Idea Books. It’s the vintage book/magazine bit on the ground floor that’s always heaving with vintage mag porn of the Interview/Ritz/Vogue variety, alongside lots of lovely rare fash-art book finds. So the pop-up shop in St Martins Lane is like a bigger, sexier, even more enviable version of that. Put it this way: I’d happily live there.
As an added bonus, the pop-up shop has been installed in collaboration with Vitsoe shelving. If you’re a shelving snob like me, that will mean something to you, if not you can get a close-up of the shelves (and some books) here.
Shopkeeper-on-duty and co-owner David, kindly indulged me in letting me take a few snaps for the blog, despite my rather clumsy attempt at small talk (sample quote: “your books are very expensive, do you have anything cheap?” Cringe.) Anyhoo, the shop is open until the end of the month – go check it out.
5 August, 2009 @ 11:35 pm
Looks awesome!
6 August, 2009 @ 7:26 am
Oh the Honey magazines!
6 August, 2009 @ 9:37 am
This looks amazing, I cannot wait to see it.
6 August, 2009 @ 10:32 am
OMG – Scared of going as may max out all credit cards. Love the cringe moment :)
6 August, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
Oh my god, how many hours did you spend in there then? What did you buy??
6 August, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
Can't wait to get down there! I have a small collection of vintage Vogue books on my landing- 70s vogue beauty book gives weight loss and sex tips! Hilarious!
7 August, 2009 @ 9:50 am
Nova! I loved the relaunched version but it did not last too long. I think I need to make a trip.
x
7 August, 2009 @ 10:39 am
rad photos! i'm not even a huge reader, but this looks pretty cool!
9 August, 2009 @ 11:01 am
wow i didn't even know they had opened up a pop up store!
haha and the quote- exactly the sort of thing i'd do!