Do you believe that spaces eventually imbibe the living cells & become the person that has lived in them? Like how pets begin to look like their owners or how couples start looking alike over time.
I walked into a quaint #bookstore cafe by chance few weeks ago. It was called L's cafe and had another Chinese name. It conveyed a special vibe, different from many of our contemporary #spaces. The walls, the artefacts, & the air in general was oozing an ambiance of art, culture, love and melancholia. My skin felt the faintly breathing walls, but I think it could have mostly been in my head or may be it was my own breathing that I was hearing. Nevertheless something was certainly alive at that moment.
This is where we decided to have our next #book club session which was on last Sunday. One of the members was thrilled that we had chosen this cafe and through her I discovered something beautiful about the building. This bookstore cafe was once home to one of China's most influential modern writers #Eileen Chang sometime in the 1930's. Some of her greatest works were produced in this very space!
Voila! spaces don't lie! :) .———————• #Eileenchang #chinesewriters #shanghaidiaries #history