Cărturești Verona
Bookshop spread through two old houses, with a brick-vaulted cellar, attic rooms and a garden café.
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This guide to Cărturești Verona in Bucharest reads the bookshop as a building rather than a shelf of books: a prime minister's house finished in eighteen eighty-three, and the neighbour joined to it in two thousand eight. It follows the choices made when the bookshop moved in, from lime-washed walls and scarred plaster mouldings to the painted doors around you. Stand in the central hall, where the house's original plan is easiest to read.
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