Cărturești Carusel

The façade
The interior

Cărturești Carusel /kərtureʃti karusel/ is a bookstore on Lipscani 55 Street in the old town of Bucharest, Romania. It belongs to Romanian book retailer chain Cărturești[1]

The building that currently houses the bookstore was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Greek Phanariot Chrissoveloni bankers family. During the first few decades of its existence the building housed the Chrissoveloni Bank headquarters, and afterwards it became a general store. At the end of the 1990s and early 2000s the building fell into decay, up until 2015 when a five year long rehabilitation, strengthening and conservation project was completed.[2]

  • The façade in December 2018
  • Bookshelves on the 2nd floor
  • Bookshelves on the 2nd floor
  • Part of the 2nd floor
  • Composite capital of a column
  • The upper part of the façade
  • The interior
  • Stuccos with a cartouche and leafs
  • Columns and the stair to basement in the bottom of the photo
  • Earth globe exhibited in September 2019
  • The bookshelf with art and art history books in August 2018
  • The same bookshelf in April 2019

References

  1. ^ "Unde ne găseşti". carturesti.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  2. ^ "Cărturești Carusel în avanpremieră: o librărie spectacol, amenajată cu 400.000 euro (FOTO)". Wall-Street.ro. 11 February 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
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