#6. Designing A Place A Day - Day 4 A Mysterious Bookstore

In Day 4, I designed a bookstore.

Since I am dealing with a fantasy drama (http://blog.naver.com/haejin.sung), I wanted a place that emits a mysterious aura. 

I was brainstorming what kind of place would be nice, then my big brother told me about a bookstore that he went once with my Mom when he was young. It was a weird used bookstore, he said, full of books piled up anywhere randomly.

That was it. I needed a weird bookstore that is full of old books and also records, tapes, videos(?), and other miscellaneous stuffs.

I found out about this amazing bookstore in Venice: Acqua Alta Libreria.

(Photos from http://tinatarnoff.typepad.com/thought_patterns/bookstores/)

It has books piled up in a bathtub and boat, and they are piled up in such a hazardously beautiful way!

I will definitely want to go to this place once I land in Venice one day fufufu.

So the below is a preliminary sketch of my bookstore ("A House Made of Books"="책으로 만든 집").
It is a store in the corner of a town that not many gets to discover.
I wanted a bookstore with a very complex structure--2nd floor, 1.5 floor, 3rd floor, ladders, spiral stairs, corners after corners, couches made of books, and columns and shelves stuck with all kinds of vintage (and/or trashy) objects. It would be like a maze and a whole world in itself. Like a magic. That smells of old books.

So I made characters who own the place and animals who live here (two cats, named Schopenhauer and Bacon :P, seven goldfishes, and three birds).

It was immensely delightful and (thus?) rather effortless to design such a place. It would be my Acqua Alta Libreria in a Korean town.