Thursday, April 14, 2011

Books for walls

A New York Japanese restaurant, Brushstroke, has put 12,000 boring old paperbacks to good use as the walls in the bar/lounge. I guess that is a good idea. I am wondering what will happen when the first customer pulls one from the stack. Their prix fixe $85 menu



2 comments:

Char Bohnett said...

Is this a fire hazard??

David Booker said...

Fire hazard? Probably. Perhaps they were treated somehow. At any rate, I am sure it had to pass the construction inspector. And I do have a bit of a problem with not "recycling" books as - well - books.