There are places that have soul and it is not easy to explain what it is that we recognize this sensitive quality when we met one of them Livraria’s Lane. Is quite old in affective Rio memory – is one of those spaces in the city returns to human scale and the landscape becomes intimate, friendly.
It was in 1975 when Rio won a bookstore whose curious name appeared to be a vague allusion to the Cold War, or Sartre, or the military dictatorship:. Wall In full Ipanema, a stronghold of Memory bossa nova (with Vinicius and Tom still present), political activism scenario, fashion, avant-garde art and counterculture, the Wall has established itself as a meeting place, discussion, literature and strength. The poets called marginal poetry made her its privileged place, casting there, recitals and performances, their craft and very small circulation books, now bibliographical rarities.
Forward in 1983, the Wall gave way to Dazibao, also in Ipanema, which later opened branch in the Travessa . the Ombudsman, in the center, making it one of the leading importers and distributors of Rio books The address suggested the new name – Transom Bookstore. – already in the mid 90. The center would receive another branch, the Avenida Rio Branco (a beautiful remaining building of the former Central Avenue), and Ipanema, origin of all, two were opened, remaining that opened in 2002. In 2006 came the turn of Leblon. In 2008, the Bar.
