In the heart of Brussels, we find the bookstore Posada art books. According to the Guardian, the store is the 7th most beautiful bookstore in the world. More than 35 years ago the Dutch booksellers Martijn Oleff and his wife Ada Roorda founded Posada art books. Previously they worked in the art world in New York, the Netherlands and Spain.

Their tireless energy, restlessness and love for books on the visual arts: applied arts, collections, art history, exhibition catalogues, monographs, reference books, journals for architecture, design and photography ... now fill the four floors of this store.

Composed of a narrow front and back house, both connected with a covered patio, a unique space is created with the highest bookcase in the world. Staircases and galleries unveil room after room with a multitude of objects.

The store also houses private collections of typewriters, calculators, advertising material, prints and paintings, a treasure of African and South American objects. Together with the books they create a feeling of a work of art. Unique, tasteful and comfortable, the spirit to inspire and inviting to discover with an eye for detail. Open and engaged for contemporary art, Posada offers a forum for presentations, publications and exhibitions.

Posada Art Books is located at 3 minutes walking distance from the Grand Place, opposite the Central Station, close to different art dealers.

They named the store after the Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada. The word posada means inn in Spanish, which in this sense, is offered to book lovers.

People from around the world, students, artists, collectors, writers and readers are the customers of Posada. They are those who still prefer to take a book in hand, to ask advice, to seek and find, instead of a searching purely virtual.

Brussels, January 2010