Happy New Year ladies and Gentlemen!
We would like to introduce you to our first Bookstore of the Week of 2015…
*Drum roll Please*
Salts Mill Gallery & Bookshop in West Yorkshire.
Salts Mill Gallery & Bookshop is set in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Saltaire, in a Grade II Listed historic mill building built in 1853 by Sir Titus Salt. Home to four galleries (the Mill is home to a permanent exhibition on David Hockney’s work), a selection of places to eat and drink, and spaces to rent Salts Mill creates a hive of culture truly underpinned by history.
The main bookshop is upstairs and has an eclectic mix of books on all subjects. Housed in a beautiful and spacious stone hall, it retains clear traces of its industrial past; the stone floor, cast iron columns, metal pulley and huge windows.
Little history trivia for you, the quality of light was important to the cloth-manufacturing processes in the mill.
Occupying half of one of the huge galleries on the second floor of the West Mill, the bookstore has the luxury of displaying a significant number of titles on tables rather than shelves. Exposing the eye to a rainbow of covers and encouraging even the most prudent to pick-up a book (or two).
It can be quite a busy place, especially at weekends, so there is a satisfying buzz about it, but it’s also a space made for quiet browsing. The shop is enhanced by all the artwork on the walls; many are Hockney prints but some are the work of other artists.
Salts Mill Bookshop is the kind of shop you could linger in all day, the placement of everything is designed so that book covers and spines sit in intriguing harmony. We couldn’t recommend visiting more highly, but we do suggest taking someone with you, party to share the love, partly to make sure you don’t buy one of everything…
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Salts Mill,
Shipley,
Saltaire,
West Yorkshire
BD18 3LA,
UK
Tel: 01274 531163 (General Enquiries, Galleries, Cafe in to the Opera, Salts Diner)
Fax: 01274 531184
Email : post@saltsmill.org.uk
Find out more at http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/
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