Flo bookstore

This funky bookshop is in Flohouse and is technically a furniture showroom – mid-century chairs, beautiful objects – but unlike IKEA, the books inside are actually real (and you can read them). Walk past all of that before arriving at one of the best-curated shelves of international art and design books in Bangkok, which is not a bad way to arrive anywhere.

The titles run across woodwork, furniture design, architecture and visual culture, largely imported editions you won't find in the chains. Coffee is from Livid Coffee Roaster – single-origin, seasonal, considerably better than the setting has any obligation to offer. 

71 Sukhumvit 36, Khlong Tan, Khlong Toei. Open daily 10am-7pm