This month we hear from a brand-new bookshop, Llibreria Finestres, which opened its doors in April. If you are planning a visit to Barcelona, this should be on your itinerary — after a long day sightseeing, this seems like the perfect place to stop by, pick up a book and perhaps even a drink at their bar, and relax! It has been very exciting. We started working on the project during lockdown when imagining ourselves in physical places interacting with other people seemed like a fantasy.
Seeing how it has materialized, between announcements of new capacity restrictions, schedule adjustments and masks, has been a celebration for us. The first week of opening was real madness, there were queues every day to enter. We believe that the pandemic has indeed restored the habit and taste for reading.
Our hope, now, is that the interest in literature is reflected in the time of interaction in bookstores and with booksellers, and not so much through online platforms. One of the great pillars of Finestres has always been the programming of cultural activities but renewing the static and boring formats to which we are accustomed.
We propose book presentations that turn into performances, concerts, talks between authors and even drinks with your favourite authors! You are not obliged to leave once you buy a book. On the contrary, you can stay as long as you want, drinking and having a little snack and of course, reading whether you have bought the book or not.
This logo is the result of long, funny discussions between the team. The Basset of the bookstore logo is a tribute to Anglophilia and interior reading comfort. His name is Watson, for reasons that need not be specified here.
