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Babel
Peru
Babel
Ghezzi Novak + Blanco
Studios: Ghezzi Novak + Blanco
Architects: Arturo Ghezzi Novak & Gustavo Ghezzi Novak
Design team: Arturo Ghezzi Novak, Gustavo Ghezzi Novak & Pamela Remy
Photos: Iván Salinero
Location: Miraflores, Lima, Perú
Year: 2018
Babel is a new bookstore in Lima run by chef Rafael Osterling and food critic Javier Masias, a promising effort aiming to become a specialized cultural platform in a city with very low reading habits.
Babel is a single, dimly lit room inside a single-story 1930s house in Miraflores district. Natural light is filtered through two small windows, then absorbed and softened by a fabric backdrop that protects the books as well. The lighting is aided by a series of table lamps that on their own would be insufficient. Special care has been given to the woodwork of the shelves, very artisanal: their shape in section suggests the stress of the weight of the books on them, and furnishes the room with an ambiguous muscularity.
Babel serves as a stage for a one-man play: the bookstore therapist (Javier), his oversized consultation table at the centre, while the books are all drawn against the walls on irregular and ascending shelves, like a pleasantly disarrayed panopticon. To him the bookstore is a space to find new ideas and contents, where he gets to know his clients and prescribe a book in turn.
Thus Babel feels vividly overflowed, the more so during the music recitals, book presentations and other cultural and artistic activities that the bookstore hosts, that capitalise on the space’s domestic atmosphere.
Ghezzi Novak + Blanco
Studios: Ghezzi Novak + Blanco
Architects: Arturo Ghezzi Novak & Gustavo Ghezzi Novak
Design team: Arturo Ghezzi Novak, Gustavo Ghezzi Novak & Pamela Remy
Photos: Iván Salinero
Location: Miraflores, Lima, Perú
Year: 2018
Babel is a new bookstore in Lima run by chef Rafael Osterling and food critic Javier Masias, a promising effort aiming to become a specialized cultural platform in a city with very low reading habits.
Babel is a single, dimly lit room inside a single-story 1930s house in Miraflores district. Natural light is filtered through two small windows, then absorbed and softened by a fabric backdrop that protects the books as well. The lighting is aided by a series of table lamps that on their own would be insufficient. Special care has been given to the woodwork of the shelves, very artisanal: their shape in section suggests the stress of the weight of the books on them, and furnishes the room with an ambiguous muscularity.
Babel serves as a stage for a one-man play: the bookstore therapist (Javier), his oversized consultation table at the centre, while the books are all drawn against the walls on irregular and ascending shelves, like a pleasantly disarrayed panopticon. To him the bookstore is a space to find new ideas and contents, where he gets to know his clients and prescribe a book in turn.
Thus Babel feels vividly overflowed, the more so during the music recitals, book presentations and other cultural and artistic activities that the bookstore hosts, that capitalise on the space’s domestic atmosphere.
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