Artazart design bookstore

Artazart is a design bookstore par excellence. Whether you are a design professional, a student, an enthusiast or just curious about the bright orange shopfront (or a wannabe who looks good in skinny black jeans and second-hand biker boots artfully juxtaposed with black horn-rimmed glasses), this densely-packed space promises to contain something of interest to you.

The field is wide in terms of the areas of ‘design’ covered: architecture, landscape architecture, art, art direction, graphic arts, clothing construction, advertising, publishing, typography, photography, industrial design, interior design, even eclectic guides to Japanese street fashions and Parisian street artists, it is a very easy spot to spend an hour or two happily immersed in itinerant publications devoted to design culture. There are two large rooms that are literally bursting with books, spilling out of their grubby boxes and lining the walls, beckoning intrigued hipsters and normal people alike to pick them up and pour through them.

Next door is a small space that doubles as a gallery or unruly gift store, depending on the mood, and scattered throughout both is a collection of droll little bits and pieces (such as the Moleskine City Guides, or slightly dirty fridge magnets) that make far more appealing gifts than your average Eiffel Tower tea-towel.

Come for the books, stay for the hell of it.

ARTAZART / 83, Quai de Valmy / 75010 Paris / FRANCE / +33 (0)1 40 40 24 00 / info@artazart.com / http://www.artazart.com/fr