An Unfinished Portrait: Bras Basah Complex
Three pioneer tenants of Bras Basah Complex – a Chinese art supplies shop, a design bookstore and a Chinese bookstore fight to keep the legacy of the book city and their family businesses going.
An Unfinished Portrait: Bras Basah Complex - Three Family Businesses Fight To Remain Relevant
Three pioneer tenants of Bras Basah Complex – a Chinese art supplies shop, a design bookstore and a Chinese bookstore fight to keep the legacy of the book city and their family businesses going.
An Unfinished Portrait: Bras Basah Complex
Bras Basah Complex – Singapore’s unofficial Book City. While the buildings and streets in the vicinity have evolved into a modern and bustling commercial district, Bras Basah Complex continues to hold on to its identity as a bastion of book culture. In more recent times demand for books is waning and the veneer of Book City, fading.
Many of the complex’s tenants have called it quits. Three family-run businesses - a Chinese art supplies business, a design bookstore and a Chinese bookstore – are still hanging on. What will keep them going on?
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