Turns out, curating a restaurant book library is a lot of work. A lot
, serves more than 1,000 different spirits, all catalogued in a house encyclopedia over several volumes, which are nestled in between those old cocktail and whiskey books.
There are even booksellers whose specialty is building out collections for restaurants, bars, and hotels.of Juniper Books in Boulder, Colorado has earned a national reputation doing so. He’s worked on projects for The Tennessean Hotel in Knoxville, The Four Seasons Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi, and Wolfgang Puck’s Cut in New York, which features futuristic all-white books set off by squiggly neon pink lights.
Back in Chicago, the Albert library took about 17 months—and almost every waking minute of Chrupek’s time—to complete. “We bought the books by the pound,” she says. “I got my entire family, my kids and my husband, involved [transporting the books]. I worked nights and weekends.” Originally, the idea started out as buying only science and math books, as a reference to Hotel EMC2’s theme of scientific understanding.
Chrupek scoured small bookstores, art fests, and library sales non-stop. She worked with the Open Books Organization, a non-profit that sells donated books to raise funds for literacy, and they helped sort books for her. Greenberg and Chrupek set up a design “lab” for mocking up bookshelves and figuring out how they would look in the dining room and the rest of the hotel. “We tried to set up shelves with eye-catching titles,” says Chrupek.
“It’s a Harry Potter-ish variety,” he says. “From the first to second floor, it appears that the stairs are built out of bookshelves. As you travel up the stairs, you’re walking inside columns of bookshelves that seem to be floating in the air.” With more and more reading done on soul-sucking glaring screens or social media scrolls, little collective memory to speak of, old books, do indeed, seem like magic.
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