Books - Sydney Shopping - Shop
SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Sydney, featuring pop-up shops and other places that are so hard to find that Google doesn't even know about them yet. SHOP attempts to open your minds, hearts and wallets to the plethora of things that you can probably live without but in actuality don't want to. Clothes, jewellery, books, bikes, bags, shoes, bags that look like shoes - SHOP gives new meaning to the superficial - wait, we're confused.
Lamella Art Books
The lamella is a thin layer or membrane within an organism - in a mushroom it's the gills. At Lamella Art Books, these layers are likened to the pages of a book. And conveniently this specialist book stop has a mushroom effect of contemplation.
In 1974, Lamella was conceived by one Victoria Palmerson in Amsterdam who, while immersed in a scene of specialists and distributors of the art book and obscure title sector, recognised Sydney's need for a warm house of visual and critical edification.
Berkelouw Books, Newtown
Legend has it that the warehouse this bookstore calls home used to play host to an infamous brand of S&M parties. Apparently, and I get this from the finest source - an old flat mate who once stumbled into one of them 'while drunk' (a likely story) - there was a strict 'no leather, no entry' policy, and 'all the chicks had their tits out'.
RAINOFF Curated Temporary Bookstore
Note: closed July 14, 2009.
Orwell posed a rather apt debate in 1946 in his essay Books vs. Cigarettes. The price of buying or even reading books is, well, expensive. It rubs the ulcer between your wallet's economy and your heart's thirst for information. We, however, welcome the renaissance of composite titles, limited edition multiples, visual safaris and literary grandeur, at any cost.
YouWorkForThem
Font nerds. Ya can't live with ‘em - but where would we be without ‘em?
As much as it pains me to admit, those geeks will inherit the earth. Or at least the world-wide web from whose teet I suckle. And at the risk of fanning the flames of geekdom, let me introduce you to YouWorkForThem.
All Arts Book Shop
It seems the best book shops hide behind a tough, gritty and casually cool exterior. Think Out of Print Books on battered Canterbury Road or the piles and piles of paperbacks at Goulds'.
All Arts Book Shop is no exception. An artistic oasis in an intensely industrial estate.
The store caters to the fanatic art fiend as well as the casual collector, definitely favoring the former.
Out of Print Books
Nestled amongst a bakery, newsagent and several boarded-up shop fronts is arguably Australia's best anthology of out-of-print and collectible books. Co-owner Anne prefers to call the shop a 'storage facility' rather than a retail store, explaining that 90 percent of sales are made online from local and international customers.
Shearer's On Norton
Amidst Little Italy's grinding espressos, warm trattorias and Soprano-style suits, lies the quiet pages of Shearer's Bookshop. It would seem like your av-er-age purveyor of fine paperbacks, with a languid mix of the latest release fiction and DIY guiding you through the kitchen to the computer, but like all good Italians, Shearer's has a few cards up its sleeve.
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