Meetings and signings with the greatest photographers, limited editions, books that are sold out everywhere else… La Nouvelle Chambre Claire is a bookstore but also a photography gallery, offering limited edition photo prints of remarkable quality.
Saint-Laurent Babylone has taken up residence at the historic Saint-Laurent Rive-Gauche address, the very place where Loulou de la Falaise often dressed in a flash in the morning for work, after dancing until dawn with Saint-Laurent’s entourage. In this space, Anthony Vaccarello, the designer for the House of Saint Laurent, sought to create a hybrid venue that promotes the many facets of cultural life and artistic expression, while remaining true to his vision. For fashion is not the designer’s only playground; he also supports the art of cinema with Saint Laurent Productions, contributing to films by Gaspar Noé, Pedro Almodóvar, Jacques Audiard, and David Cronenberg, as well as photography with Editions Saint Laurent Rive Droite, which publishes numerous art books.
A space with raw, minimalist architecture that, in addition to art books, vintage editions, magazines, and vinyl records, offers photo exhibitions, author readings, book signings, and DJ sessions.
Delpire & Co is both a bookstore of art and photography books, but is also a partner of many literary events and photo exhibitions. Conferences, signatures, it sometimes also becomes the place of very beautiful exhibitions, in particular during PARIS PHOTO.
This bookshop created by Karl Lagerfeld presents a great selection of books about photography, decorative arts and architecture and some trendy magazines.
Created in 1926 by Christian Zervos, the Cahiers d’Art review belongs to the legend of SaintGermain-des-Prés. Picasso, Giacometti, Matisse, Léger, Beckett and Miro took part in it before it became slightly neglected. ‘Les Cahiers’ were purchased by the Swede Staffan Ahrenberg and are now headed by Samuel Keller and Hans-Ulrich Obrist and back to their former place and lustre.
Design, architecture, photography, fine arts, fashion…situated inside the Hermès boutique rue de Sèvres, the Chaîne d’encre bookshop is a quiet corner where epicureans will find an extremely well crafted book selection.
Jean-Bernard Gillot is first and foremost a librarian, but he also infuses his bookshop with his passion for photography and travels. He also regularly organises exhibitions on modern and contemporary photographers.
Every day from 10 am to midnight and on Sundays from 11.00 a.m to 10.00 p.m, it is nice to stroll around in this multidisciplinary bookshop where there is a kid department.
Fine Arts, philosophy, theatre, literature, poetry, history, but also medicine or feminism, the Librairie La Mazarine is a must, especially for rare or old books. Founded in 1946, it is now directed by Pierre Durieu, very attached to primitive arts and contemporary art. The bookstore also carries out appraisals of old books with an extraordinary eye and meticulousness.
This great place was opened almost one century ago by Sylvia Beach. She was the first one to publish “Ulysse” by James Joyce or to sell banned books in England and in the United States such as “Lady Chatterley’s lover”. During this period, the shop was considered as the centre of American English culture in Paris. Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein or James Joyce stayed there regularly. George Whitman took over from Sylvia Beach in 1951 and then it was the turn of the Beat Generation’s writers to take possession of the premises.
Today, Whitman’s daughter, Sylvia, manages the bookshop which is still a landing place for many travelers of the whole world who can sleep at Shakespeare and Co in exchange for working a few hours there. Students can consult thousands of books, new ones, old ones, and even rare ones, which are piled up and cover all the walls and the shelves.
Publishers specialized in art, fashion and decoration, Martine and Prosper Assouline decided in 2005 to open a bookshop that combines Culture and Luxury, books and objects. We can find there exclusive accessories, curios, personalized gifts … they have opened a new bookshop with the same concept in NYC, at the Plaza Hotel.
