Design Anthology

Sea Change

The Kafka Bookstore in Ho Chi Minh City is listed at address 54/2. On the main street, however, one will only find buildings numbered 54 and 55. But a closer look reveals a passage between the buildings leading to an almost-hidden narrow parallel street, where, at the very end and fully assuming its half-address position, sits the quiet little independent bookshop with ornate tilework floors and an upstairs reading room that extends out to a terrace draped in flowering vines. This

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