I read this name off the tote bag of a woman in front of me in line at a coffee shop the other day and decided to look it up. Let's take an armchair tour, shall we?
The Daunt Books flagship is on Marylebone High Street and all the books are organized by country, a quirk that makes more sense if you know that it specializes in travel books.
See the sign going down to the basement?
From the second-floor gallery. Love that one turquoise wall.
Good trip! Let's take our finds to the London Public Gardens to enjoy:
Photo credits in order: Ewan-M, SusanAstray, pfig, rowlandr, spektrograph, 762_AK
5 comments:
Very nice; you can almost picture Hugh Grant telling a would-be shoplifter to take the book out of his pants and wipe it before before putting it back on the shelves.
I haven't seen the movie I think you're referencing, but maybe?
Nothing makes you re-evaluate your life choices quite like when you catch yourself explaining Notting Hill references to 1) a woman, with 2) an acknowledged tendency towards Anglophilia. I will now jump out of a building.
The other (or another) Daunt Books is actually in Notting Hill (well, properly speaking, Holland Park, a block away from Notting Hill). Just down the street from me! We also have the other (non-flagship) Persephone Books. Yum.
Daunt Books now has an online virtual tour as well:
http://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/virtual_tour
where you can 'walk' around the shop.
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