Where are books, ideas, arts, entertainment, kid activities and networking are located in the same space. B2S opened the 3,000 square meter concept store which was designed by Klein Dytham Architecture(KDa) and M&A Architecture at the Central East Ville, shopping mall in Bangkok.
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Story : Samutcha Viraporn /// Photos : Rithirong Chanthongsuk
B2S, The Thai retail of bookstore has made a surprising new shop with pleasurable concepts for everyone. Think Space B2S was designed as a lifestyle concept store with over 100,000 books. The shop is made up of 5 spaces of inspiration, the Lifestyle Book Space, the Art x Idea Space, the Entertainment Space, the Play x Learn space and the Networking Space. You can see the Book Terraces as landscapes of knowledge in the center of this open plan interior design. Also, you can take your time with café, booth of stationery, furniture, arts, collection of records around you or activities for the family on the second floor. The concept was created by Klein Dytham Architecture(KDa), the international multi-disciplinary design firm who devised PechaKucha Night. The successful event is a simple format of projects and designers with 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide presentation. They also have another bookstore project in Japan which Central Group and B2S appreciate a lot. That is the reason for of this collaboration to be among the big change in digital lifestyle.
3 Months later after Think Space was open. We found there is one of the successful stores in the area. Many people come to visit this hybrid lifestyle book store again and again. That is the real proof of creative design for book stores.
