Concrete floors and wooden furniture blend in with the surrounding to avoid overpowering the items on display. Items carried are products that are based across East and West Malaysia

In conversation with Paper Planes founder Nupur Joshi Thanks on her digital startup focused on the evolution of design and print in India

Misfortune cookies and sex toys. Jettisoning the taboos that surround sexual desires Chu Chih Kang describes human nourishment in the darkness of a bookstore

A physical and virtual container that combines art, culture, and underground fashion owes its success to its contemporary vision and know-how in the retail world

At XYZ Books, the focus is not aesthetics. Pedro Guimarães and Tiago Casanova encourage freshness and support the artists they collaborate with through their insight and intuition in editing

Having steered themselves away from brands that are known to mass produce goods, Rooney’s slow-fashion ethos has emboldened the business as an educator for the ‘pay more, consume less’ practice

Incorporating a showroom for Danish furniture brand Norman Copenhagen, the bookstore toys with intersection, complexity and contradiction