Spoonbill & Sugartown

Competing with superstores and online shops with impossibly large warehouses is useless if you're a small bookseller so Spoonbill & Sugartown did the only thing it could do: focus. Art and design in its many forms (film, photography, architecture, painting) are the focus of a new and used book selection that includes everything from rare, hard-to-find design titles to hip magazines. In a nod to the topic at hand the shop is well-lit, sparsely decorated and full but not overcrowded with titles.

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