{"id":9111,"date":"2017-02-18T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2017-02-18T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T16:50:22","slug":"st-petersburg-has-a-luxury-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9111","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Has a Luxury Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

In St. Petersburg, Russia, publisher\u00a0Alfaret has opened a Gothic-style library that is more a book-themed experience than a place to read or check out books. In fact, I don’t think you can check out anything from Book Cappela<\/a>‘s over 5,000 edition collection.<\/p>\n

What you can do is pay about \u00a3100 for a four-hour visit to study the collection or buy an annual card, making you a “Book Apostle,” for\u00a0\u00a33,209. Life-long members are also available.<\/p>\n

For these prices, you can review Alfaret’s collection of Russian and international masterpieces<\/a> in leather chairs under the kind gaze of the apostles.<\/p>\n

\u201cBook Capella is not a library in the traditional sense, and it is not a museum, although elements of the museum are presented. It\u2019s also not the bookstore, although you can buy our books here. [It] is a new way for people to communicate with rare books,\u201d Irina Khoteshova, the project director, told the Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In St. Petersburg, Russia, publisher\u00a0Alfaret has opened a Gothic-style library that is more a book-themed experience than a place to read or check out books. In fact, I don’t think you can check out anything from Book Cappela‘s over 5,000 edition collection. What you can do is pay about \u00a3100 for a four-hour visit to … Continue reading St. Petersburg Has a Luxury Library<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[1661],"class_list":["post-9111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-reading","tag-library"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}