Book shopping in Milan
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Art Book Milano
The multilevel gallery Massimo de Carlo is entered via a bridge that gives a full view of the stockroom innards. This Via Ventura pioneer is a must-see, for the stellar line-up of artists - Diego Perrone, Simone Berti, Pei-Ming Yan - as well as the architecturally thoughtful space. In the same complex is the ever-challenging Zero and Art Book Milano. Via Massimiano is home to Francesca Minini and Klerkx, both showing intriguing new-generation work.
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L'Isola del Fumetto
In Italy, fumetti (comics) aren't just kids' stuff: grown men have been known to weep to discover these rare Italian comic books and hard-to-find action figures, and bargain-priced Italian translations of Flash Gordon and Gli Incredibili (The Incredibles) practically beg to be turned into laminated earrings and decoupage tables.
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Hoepli International Bookstore
Italy’s largest bookshop has six floors and some 500,000 titles and rare antiquarian books, as well as an English- and German-language section. Don’t neglect to browse the Italian shelves, even if you don’t speak the language as local publishers are known for their beautiful cover design and innovative pictorial titles.
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A+M Bookshop
Contemporary art monographs, catalogues and audiovisual material join gorgeously realised a+m edizioni titles that cover an inspiringly diverse range of artists and theorists as well as thoughtful visual essays on everything from New York’s community gardens to the reconstruction of Milan’s PAC.
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Art Book Triennale
Run by Lambrate’s fabulous Art Book outfit, this shop is as enthralling as the exhibitions themselves. There’s a full range of beautifully produced catalogues as well as titles from Electa, Rizzoli, Thames & Hudson, Phaidon and MIT Press, and design piece children’s books from Corraini.
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Rizzoli
Unbeatable range of translated works by Italian writers, and Italy-inspired travel literature.
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