snapshots and observations

Wednesday 14 July 2010

napket and the death of books



yesterday i sneaked into napket just around the corner from savile row.

i had a belting slice of pizza... just up my street.
pepperoni and jalepeño. boom !



i had a look around while i was sitting there. napket is such a well desgned place and even the smallest details are usually finished to a very high standard.

behind me running the length of the interior was a bookshelf illuminated from below.




it was quite a narrow shelf though. i pulled a book out and noted that it was a very unusual format... quite long and thin. strange proportions and unlike any books i'd seen before.
i was intrigued. every book was this strange format. i decided to have a flick through and see how it looked. surely it would be quite odd to have so few words per line if the pages were so narrow ?



what the what ?
no way ! the book had been butchered.



every book, maybe over a hundred, had been hacked down to fit the shelf...
that's a dealbreaker !




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