Bookstores, arts and design

GOODS & SERVICES • The Nines

The Nines are FOUND's distilled lists of London’s best. Additions or subtractions? Hit reply or email found@foundldn.com.

• Artwords (Broadway Market), contemporary visual arts and culture with classic Hackney scene on weekends, statutory tote

• ICA Bookstore (St James’s), radical art, design, and cultural studies; zines galore, no-frills decor

• RIBA Books (Bloomsbury), Royal Institute of British Architects, curation follows function

• Design Museum High Street Shop (Kensington), best of contemporary design, plus homeware and prints

• November Books (Cecil Court), subcultures paradise featuring rare and secondhand editions; appointment only

• Tenderbooks (Cecil Court), artist books, including hard-to-find and out-of-print runs

• TPG Bookshop (Soho), photography book selection par excellence, fitting its location in The Photographers’ Gallery basement

• IDEA (Soho, above), proclaimed ‘coolest bookshop in the world’; ring bell for vintage gems

• Reference Point (Temple), post-War radical art, architecture, design, fashion, and culture in 180 The Strand, library/bookshop/bar