#infinite spaces

[toexistwithin]

[sheltiechicago]

A Mirrored Ceiling and Gleaming Tile Floor Turn This Chinese Bookstore into an Immersive M.C. Escher-Style Illusion

X+Living is known for its deceptively designed Zhongshuge bookstores that mimic M.C. Escher woodcuts and trippy infinite spaces. The latest iteration is this dreamy location in Chengdu featuring bold archways, a reflective tile floor that makes the display tables appear like floating boats, and a mirror embedded in the ceiling to create a seemingly endless loop of stairways and shelving. Completed in 2020, Dujiangyan Zhongshuge has a cafe on the first floor, along with a children’s area occupied by a bamboo forest and pandas climbing the bookcases. In the rest of the two-story space, the uppermost shelves lining the winding walkways are covered in a decorative print, adding to the illusion of countless volumes and ensuring all 80,000 available titles are within a customer’s reach.

[fieriframes]

[A plate of food. Caption: The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.]

[heartofmuse]

And when you went away I finally realized that some infinite spaces are greater than others.

e.v.e.

[somnolentdesolation]

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal, Pensées

[what-a-colorful-mess]

When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Blaise Pascal

[sunnycosmology]

INFINITE WAVES