How a bookstore is born.

"Our parent company, Bess Press, has been publishing books for Hawaiʻi and Oceania since 1979. After much discussion internally and externally with our customers about how to fulfill the lack of independent, neighborhood bookstores in Honolulu, we decided to create our own.

Our goal was to custom design a space and to offer a curated experience that would appeal to readers of all ages and interests. da Shop: books + curiosities began in 2018 as a celebration of storytelling.

Reading is so personal, but having a space and place to come into and interact with real, tangible books is sacred. This was one of our main inspirations for opening da Shop."

-- David DeLuca, da Shop co-owner