If you like books and you love hotels: YOU HAVE TO GO TO TOKYO
1. We like bookstores. we like hotels . Spending a night in something that unites the best of both worlds seems to us Fair and necessary.
two. And these two worlds are literally joined . The shelves and the beds form the same structure in a kind of perfectly Japanese design. (Good) ideas taken to the limit deserve a round of applause. And a bow.
3.**It was designed by the architecture studio Suppose Design Office **. Its owners, a couple of stylish Japanese, Makoto Tanijiri and Ai Yoshida They have also designed the Guggenheim in Heksinki and many of those little Japanese houses appear on design websites where we would like to live but we know we can't because we're not Japanese and we wouldn't put up with it.
Four. Japanese people sleep a lot . In shopping malls in designated areas, in the subway, with their little chins securely attached to a ribbon that hangs from the ceiling of the car, in their offices (let's reread Stupor and Tremors ), on the counter of a sake bar. Imitating them and doing it in a Book and Bed seems to us to be a conservative decision.
5. It is an eccentricity. Book and bed it is more a hostel than a hotel ; it is actually a huge communal room where people read and sleep. And also vice versa. Intimacy is not its most important value, but we already sleep safely the rest of the nights of the year... Life is too short to sleep alone in sensible hotels.
6.**It is a project of Shibuya Publishing Booksellers**, a bookstore-publisher that has relaunched the publishing phenomenon in Tokyo. That it is considering becoming a hotel seems crazy enough to us to want to support it. House of the book , a small hotel? Infamous Types , one of those tiny hostels, perhaps on the ground floor?
7. In Tokyo we want to sleep in a hospital-themed love hotel , in a capsule hotel the size of our dryer and in the Aman Tokyo. In Japan we would want to sleep even in the Imperial Palace, even if we left depressed for life. In Tokyo we want to sleep anywhere, until no sleep, because it is one of the most fascinating cities on Earth. Although in reality, Tokyo is not on Earth but on a strange planet called Japan.
8. Book and Bed's Instagram is small , charming and with personal messages, such as the one announcing that they will not meet the scheduled opening date.
9. We know we're not going to read the hotel books , but we'll open a lot of them, flip through them, and flip through and copy a lot of ideas.
10. Book and Bed is the perfect hotel that generates conversation . Not so much there, (because we will be reading) but on the way back, when they ask us: "And where have you slept in Tokyo? - In a bookstore hotel". Point for us snobs travelers.
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