Independent Bookshop & Design Classroom

Where every shelf is a composition

Books arranged by color theory. Browsing as Bauhaus exercise. A shop that teaches you to see — through spines, planes, and the geometry of good reading.

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Staff Picks This Month

The Remainder

Alia Trabucco Zerán

▲ Fiction · $16.95

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

● Non-fiction · $14.00

Exercises in Style

Raymond Queneau

▲ Fiction · $13.95

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Events & Workshops

Each gathering is a lesson. Each reading, a composition exercise.

Full Calendar

■ Feb 14, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Reading: Carmen Maria Machado

The author reads from her new collection, followed by an audience Q&A on narrative structure as spatial form.

■ Author Reading

■ Feb 21, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Workshop: The Geometry of the Essay

A Bauhaus-inspired writing workshop exploring how visual composition principles apply to nonfiction prose.

■ Workshop

■ Feb 28, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Book Club: Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino's architectural prose as a lesson in point, line, and plane.

■ Book Club