This Industrial Age Style Bookshelf with accent lighting is a great conversation piece that turns heavy iron piping into a modern urban multipurpose fixture that will add a sense of history and lighting to any space. This is a very versatile design that can hold books on the horizontal shelves upright or stacked. Multiple shelves allow many possibilities for storage.Made from Industrial Iron Piping, Light Bulbs included.
Stella Bleu
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Industrial Age Style Bookshelf
Monday, 29 August 2011
Veliero
The bookcase consists of two pillars of ash with brass tip ends. 4mm stainless steel tie rods. Anchoring elements of the rods are in burnished iron with the central rods in polished brass. The shelves are made of safety glass 3 +3 mm.. Shelf supports in ash with polished brass ends. Diagonal reinforcing tie rods for the shelves in polished brass. The base is in steel with the covering panels in ash.
Designer: Franco Albini
Cassina
Friday, 5 August 2011
Bookshelf is sunning itself at the beach for a bit. We'll be back soon with more marvellous designs. Those of you interested in the book will be pleased to hear that the designers have now finished putting it all together and when we return we should have some concrete dates for you. As well as the English version, there will also be French, German, Swedish and Italian editions (and maybe more).
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Kub+
KUB+ is a project that aims to bring functionality to living rooms with limited space, serving as a ludic and customizable furniture, allowing users to interact with the colored mobile pieces in addition to following the trend of assembling do-it-yourself and taking inspiration from famous toy Rubik's Cube. The project uses no glue and the pieces are put together through wood dowel pins. The material used are sheets of plywood and the finish is made with lacquer ink.
Fabio Teixeira
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Italia
ITALIA è la libreria che traduce in materia vitale l’immagine di una Nazione, la nostra:ricca di cultura, storia e grandi potenzialità che tuttavia vive accasciata sul suo antico passato, mentre guarda fuggire grandi menti da sé e lascia ai pochi che restano la difficoltà di trovare una collocazione.
materiali: legno laccato, gomma, ferro arrugginito.
Andrea Vecera
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Monday, 1 August 2011
Basement stacks
Books breaking through the (faux) wall downstairs, referencing the "basement stacks" every library has. In this case it's as if those stacks had been sealed up during some remodel, and are anthropomorphically breaking through, referencing the old library, history, roots, poltergeists... Created for the VIA Advertising Agency, which recently renovated and moved their offices into the old Baxter building, which served as Portland's public library from 1888 until the 1960s.
Warey Myers
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Print Books: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
As I packed for the move, I questioned whether it made financial sense to ship my several hundred books across the country, and more important, if I went through the trouble of doing this, what was the point when they would only sit untouched in a different city, just as they have for so many years in New York?
Nick Bilton, New York Times
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Twisted tales
A Shakespearean reference of the old library's books "shuffling off this mortal coil". The books, some of which were actually once in the library's stacks, were gathered from local bookshops, then twisted and trimmed to fit flush against the paneled wall. There are whimsical, nostalgic Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Harry Potter-esque references also, since it looks magical, and it's under the stairs. Created for the VIA Advertising Agency, which recently renovated and moved their offices into the old Baxter building, which served as Portland's public library from 1888 until the 1960s.
Warey Myers
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Book Tank: Weapon of massive instruction
Raul Lemesoff's converted 1979 green Ford Falcon - now a mobile library which circulates Buenos Aires handing out books.
Monday, 25 July 2011
Mobina - estante e banqueta
Trabalho de conclusão de curso, cujo objetivo era desenvolver um produto a partir da reutilização de resíduos industriais. A solução encontrada foi o reuso de bobinas de papelão, originando um módulo multifuncional, que pode ser usado como estante, banqueta, mesa de apoio e caixa.
Mariana Piccoli
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Monday, 18 July 2011
Really useful bookcase
"Leading product designer Ken Grange points at a bookcase. 'I designed this in the shape of a man,' he says. 'When I die, all my wife has to do is chuck out the books and put me in instead. That's real design for recycling."
Kenneth Grange
Friday, 15 July 2011
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Is a Bookless Library Still a Library?
We've been hearing about it for years, but the bookless library has finally arrived, making a beachhead on college campuses. At Drexel University's new Library Learning Terrace, which opened just last month, there is nary a bound volume, just rows of computers and plenty of seating offering access to the Philadelphia university's 170 million electronic items. Scott Erdy, designer of the new library, says open, flexible space — the furniture is movable and the walls act as one giant whiteboard — allows student and staff "knowledge transfer," a concept reinforced by Danuta Nitecki, dean of Drexel's libraries. "We don't just house books, we house learning," she says.
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Monday, 11 July 2011
Mini Bookshelf Quilt
You will need:
13 various scraps for your books **see cutting step #1**
Various scraps of white fabric or another neutral, background color
1" x 20" strip of gray, brown, or other bookshelf colored solid fabric
Selvages or textual fabrics for book titles
Steam-a-Seam 2
Fat quarter for the background
Binding of your choice
Don't Call Me Betsy
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Dream bookshelf
Inspired by the ability of every design to be made about fun and imagination. the dream bookshelf is a coversation starter no matter where it is. you livingroom or your kids play room.
Dripta Design
Friday, 8 July 2011
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