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A cupboard-sized shop in Hoxton for artists' books, where the book is the artwork.

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Tanya Peixoto opened it in 2002 and has filled its one small room with books made by artists and tiny presses - concrete poetry, flip books, boxes of cards, books that fold out into rooms or refuse to be read in order - the kind of thing otherwise seen only at the London Art Book Fair. Launches happen in the shop with the door open onto the street, and the stock is the best introduction in the city to the idea that a book can be a sculpture.

Where
17 Pitfield Street, N1 6HB
Nearest station
Old Street · 4 min walk

Afternoons, Wednesday to Saturday

The shop's own site was unreachable when checked; ring 020 7608 1333 before a special journey.

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