Ai Lanu

Personification of two-faced Mendacity in an engraving of The worldly fool [Stultus mundanus] by Hendrick Goltzius.

Print made 1575 - 1581

Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.

The stage itself was turned into a cafe:

You can’t even begin to comprehend the massive amounts of money this place makes, despite the fact that they turned the theatre boxes into reading nooks like this:

I’ve literally spent days holed up in there reading books for free while also consuming massive amounts of coffee and pastries.

The cover of a book about book covers. L'art dans la décoration extérieure des livres en France. 1898. 

The Bases of Design