by the book: assouline opens up shop in nyc
July 17, 2008 9:49 am

Renovations in New York are always bittersweet. Take the recent refurb of the Plaza Hotel. While it’s nice to see the old girl spruced up, it’s hard to believe that any change to the Oak Bar, scheduled to reopen at the end of the summer, will top the original (but then how can you improve a watering hole that was the site of Cary Grant’s kidnapping in “North By Northwest?”). One upgrade to the Plaza that we can endorse is the newly opened Assouline boutique, the first of its kind in North America (the original shop is in Place Saint Germaine des Prés in Paris). Whether you stop in to browse the impressive selection of fashion titles or decide that you need to have the publisher completely restock your library (Assouline will provide everything from books to shelves), the mezzanine-level shop provides a civilized oasis.
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