A Mirrored Ceiling and Gleaming Tile Floor Turn This Chinese Bookstore into an Immersive M.C. Escher-Style Illusion

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A Mirrored Ceiling and Gleaming Tile Floor Turn This Chinese Bookstore into an Immersive M.C. Escher-Style Illusion

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X+Living is known for its deceptively designed Zhongshuge bookstores that mimic M.C. Escher woodcuts and trippy infinite spaces. The latest iteration is this dreamy location in Chengdu featuring bold archways, a reflective tile floor that makes the display tables appear like floating boats, and a mirror embedded in the ceiling to create a seemingly endless loop of stairways and shelving. Completed in 2020, Dujiangyan Zhongshuge has a cafe on the first floor, along with a children’s area occupied by a bamboo forest and pandas climbing the bookcases. In the rest of the two-story space, the uppermost shelves lining the winding walkways are covered in a decorative print, adding to the illusion of countless volumes and ensuring all 80,000 available titles are within a customer’s reach.
I'm certainly glad I ran into this today. The wonder of this architecture beggars the imagination. Brilliant!

A Mirrored Ceiling and Gleaming Tile Floor Turn This Chinese Bookstore into an Immersive M.C. Escher-Style Illusion —by Grace Ebert

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/05/ ... hongshuge/


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I am filled with wonder viewing photos of this marvellous place. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see it first hand? They'd have to pry me out of there...
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LOL! They'd probably have to pry me off the floor!

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LOL Yeah it looks like it possibly could mess with your mind and sense of what is real and what is an illusion.

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