The Shanghai branch of Tsutaya, the Japanese bookstore chain, is in a 100-year-old historical building, the Columbia Country Club, and its interior design injects a new vitality to the space. The flow line plans, furniture, and materials respond to the architecture, and the arch-shaped furniture in the first floor lobby was inspired by the shape of the door, and became a coherent stylistic element throughout, complementing the pillars, fireplaces and decorative walls, and interweaving past and present.