Barnes & Noble is trying to reinvent itself, and the first step is to break with the familiar. At many stores, the green-striped wallpaper and hunter-green walls have been scraped away and painted
over in sandy shades of white and pink. "Other stores will have a different look," per
The New York Times. "The design of a new location in Brooklyn reveals the polished concrete floors from
its past life as a Barneys New York. A Barnes & Noble recently opened in California with cerulean walls, and an experiment in robin’s egg blue is in the works for some East Coast locations."
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