Harper’s Books has a pop-up shop at NYC’s Carlyle Hotel this week.
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This week, in a move that’s sure to please fancy New Yorkers, a Hamptons-based bookstore has set up shop (temporarily) on the Upper East Side. Renata Mosci writes for the New York Times’ T Magazine blog that Harper’s Books has moved into a pop-up location at the Carlyle Hotel.

The temporary store, open for just a few days this week, is timed to coincide with the Armory Show, the annual contemporary art exhibition held at Piers 92 & 94 in Manhattan. Harper’s, located in East Hampton, is a gallery as well as a bookstore, and they have a collection of rare books, so they definitely have more of an artsy appeal than your average store. It’s not the first time they’ve done this; the store set up its first NYC pop-up in 2013, that time at the Lowell Hotel.

Owner Harper Levine says that the burgeoning tradition is something of “an anti-fair.” He tells T Magazine, “Art fairs provide a great opportunity to see work on walls, but they can be a little sterile and exclusive,” and that they aim to provide a mix of high and low culture, kitsch and covetable art.

The shop at the Carlyle will feature vintage Japanese magazines, correspondence and posters from New York in the 1980s, and original works by artists Brad Phillips, Sadie Laska, Richard Prince, and Matthew King. They’re also holding a few events, including tonight, when photographer Ken Schles will be signing copies of his 1988 book Invisible City.

The Carlyle—a hub of upper-crustiness with a cool bar—will host the Harper’s pop-up through tomorrow, March 5.