Bird's Bookstore, an all-ages, design-driven bookstore, will open in Dallas, Tex., next month, CultureMap Dallas reported
Located at 6025 Royal Ln. #207, in the Preston Royal shopping center, Bird's Bookstore will carry roughly 3,500 adult titles at opening, along with 2,500 kid's and young adult titles. The store will be "selling everything," said co-owner Drew Dawson, including "incredibly thick history books," genre fiction, and self-help.
The store will also carry a selection of magazines pertaining to design and fashion. Co-owner Emily Dawson, who owns a wardrobe consulting company, will handle the curation of the magazine inventory as well as the shop's art and design books. She plans to carry around 20 magazines along the lines of Neptune, the Gentlewoman, and L'Etiquette, and expects the selection to be a draw, as there aren't many places to find those magazines in person.
Bird's Bookstore will have a small cafe serving coffee and baked goods, and the store's nonbook inventory will include European and Japanese stationery along with ceramics.
The Dawsons' bookstore plans emerged more than a decade ago, when they were first dating as students at University of Texas at Austin. "Initially, it was an idea that we wanted to explore towards retirement age," Drew Dawson told CultureMap. "But as I saw Emily follow her passion and open her own vintage clothing styling business a year and a half ago, I said, 'It's time for me too. I want to follow my passion and open this bookstore.' There's really no time like the present."
"I think there's a fatigue of everything being online," Emily Dawson said. "And I think there's a yearning for a community space that is beautiful, and feels like a second home--a place where you can get amazing customer service. We're excited to hopefully be that place for some people."