The Library-Go-Round adds a distinctive difference to your library, a unique way to show off your favorite tomes and a useful method of conducting research and taking notes. The five shelves of this revolving book display, inspired by one owned by Thomas Jefferson, can hold several books at various levels and angles and are also useful for note-taking and cross-checking information from several sources. The spinning lazy susan-style base of this rotating bookcase is perfect for spotlighting rare first editions, specialty books, favorite artwork and photographs. The Library-Go-Round folds up neatly into a 12" box when not in use.
Bookshelf
The home of interesting bookshelves, bookcases and things that look like them since 2007
Monday 19 February 2024
The Library-Go-Round
Wednesday 3 January 2024
Friday 24 February 2023
Abraham Lincoln's law office bookcase
This five-shelf bookcase was once owned and used by the future president in his law office in Springfield, Illinois. Though simplistic in design, it is accented by a thin midnight-blue velvet trim. The two doors of the bookcase are missing.
Currently at auction with Heritage Auctions
Thursday 1 December 2022
The Library at Elsinore
Bookcase installation by Tom Phillips, who died earlier this week.
Books, acrylic and pigment ink
151.7 x 114 x 20 cm"The mock bookcase contains real books overpainted in grey with titles borrowed from Hamlet in black. These are titles of actual books by actual authors in order of the apprearance of their words in the play. There must of course be more no doubt being borrowed as I write but these are all that my research has turned up. Most are (rightly I presume) obscure but others are by known writers from Lloyd George to Graham Greene with, most recently, Alan Bennett's Single Spies (Simon Callow suggested, he claims, this brilliant choice of title)."
Tuesday 29 November 2022
Monday 28 November 2022
Dachshund bookcase
The "Dachshund" sideboard. A wooden sideboard with a twist. This sideboard develops a rotated tail end where you can store books or other items in a more special way.
Wednesday 16 November 2022
A bookish blade
A knife, with metal blade and fitting, the handle of carved fruitwood, Northern European, 18th/17th century or earlier. 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) length, 3 1/4 in (8 cm.) circumference. The handle in an unusual design of four stacked books, showing carved covers, clasps, banded spines, and fore-edges with traces of red staining still visible. (Wear commensurate with age and frequent use.)