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Voronoi bookshelf - Kickstarter project

An interactive web application for designing one-of-a-kind shelves based on the Voronoi algorithm. Voronoi

The Book Shelf

The intention of The Book Shelf design is to bring to life an everyday object well-liked by everyone in form of a new practical design that symbolises something greater than the object itself. Playing with the roles of form and function and an element of surprise, the super-sized book creates a library of stories, adventures, knowledge and fairytales. It represents a door into your own imagination and creativity, reproducing the feeling of immersion in itself. The book as a book shelf offers a blank canvas to be filled with stories and knowldege, encouraging your mind to break free of the everyday. It is ‚just’ a book shelf but it creates a focal point by standing out as a centerpiece in its own right without need for further decoration. While the design is simple and modern to fit into any contemporary or minimalistic home or commercial interior, it brings along a sense of romanticism and cosiness.

Aline Dürr

Virgules

Thibault Pougeoise

Libra

A wine and bookshelf designed following re-use philosopy. All materials are re-used and re-designed with high level finishing. LIBRA is made of cellulose tubes, recycled wood and iron water–pipes. LIBRA can be used as bookshelf, as bottle-shelf, as cloth-shelf in shops, it can be used horizontally or vertically, it can be customized with different colors, or left nature, kraft paper colored. All materials are 100% recycled and re-used. Made in Italy. LIBRA Nature price: € 3700,00 LIBRA Color price: € 3900,00 Dimensions: mm 2120 x 1120 x 400

capolinea design

Urban shelf

Bound to be a hit with homegrown and transplanted big city hipsters (whether they live in vintage or contemporary spaces), this clever design holds books, modern 'zines, plants, supplies and artwork on all three landings. Ships in two pieces, easy to assemble. Wall mounted. Made of sturdy epoxy-coated steel.

chiasso

Married under a bookshelf arch

Offbeat Bride (for more details on this bibliophile wedding paraphenalia)

The Secret History of Second-Hand Books

An exhibition by freelance writer Wayne Gooderham Back at The Café at Foyles, First Floor, Charing Cross Road, London. To 13th December.

After years of buying second-hand books, writer Wayne Gooderham began to notice he was accidentally accumulating an intriguing sub-collection: second-hand books inscribed with personal messages. Ranging from the awkward scratchings of adolescent infatuation to the resentful recriminations of love affairs gone awry, each and every scribble and scrawl told a different story. Now Wayne has selected the very best examples from his collection and will be displaying these in a special exhibition in the Café at Foyles - a must for bibliophiles, book lovers and anyone who appreciates the magic of the physical book. Please note that due to the arrangement of the Café, viewing of the artwork may be restricted.
Foyles and Book Dedications

Lean

'Lean' bookshelf lets you arrange the books neatly because the bottom tilts to both sides. 'Lean' has bilateral symmetry and you can pile units easily. Four units consist of four black colours and you can create different mood according to arrangement. Material / Birch Wood(Finland) Size / 1800(H) x 1200(W) x 300(D) monocomplex

Nodo

Pentagono Estudio

Limit

Alp Nuhoglu

Boekenwurm

Boekenwurm is het sculpturale antwoord op een opdracht om een organische boekenkast te ontwerpen en produceren. De kast biedt door de gebogen vorm ook een plek om te zitten en relaxen. De zelfdragende vorm bestaat uit drie, op locatie gemonteerde, delen en blijft in balans door een rvs poot in de zijwand. De gebogen vorm is gemaakt door dunne lagen MDF en buigplex te buigen langs op maat gemaakte mallen. De buitenwanden zijn in kleur gespoten, de binnenzijde in fris wit. Een lamp hangend aan de bovenzijde van de wurm zorgt voor de leesverlichting. Boekenwurm wordt op aanvraag geproduceerd. De buitenzijde van de kast is in verschillende kleuren verkrijgbaar.

Atelier 010

Inner shelf

Roosje de Groot is fascinated by Padauk, an African wood that is bright orange-red when freshly sawn. Under the influence of the sun it changes into a dark brown over time. Inner Shelf plays with this phenomenon. Upon opening the shelf shows this intense colour, but soon it shows the signs of use. While noncovered parts change colour, objects that stay put on the shelf leave an orange 'print'. If you want to keep the original colour, just leave it closed to keep the sunlight off. This way a shelf on the wall becomes an emotional object to be cherished.

Roosje de Groot

Free & Captive Bookcase

A bookrack design which reflects the ideas of "freefeeling", "living the things in a spontaneous way-not in same order which is familiar"

Hazan Kara

Bookshelf book reviewed in Chicago Tribune

"Bookshelf" is less about the peeping-Tom qualities of a good bookshelf book than unmitigated jealousy. It is by a British author who, his bio says, "runs the Shedworking website for homeowners with garden offices," a remarkable job that certainly warrants a book on the art of garden offices, whatever those might be. Instead Johnson stays true to "Bookshelf." It is 268 pages of inventive shelving. You will want to buy most of these — the Pac-Man shelf, the hollow arrow with room for one title — but most will require many frequent flier miles to purchase.

Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune

Even in Nook and iPad age, home libraries still in demand

In the age of the iPad, has the home library become a quaint relic of the past, more often encountered in a novel than in real life? Not according to a number of architects interviewed for this article. Although their clients read e-books on Kindles and Nooks and iPads, they still own substantial numbers of books. When they can afford it, a special place in the house for a bona fide library is not an unusual request. If the budget does not stretch that far, homeowners still want bookcases incorporated into their living spaces.
Katherine Salant, Herald Tribune

Verso

This ladder like shelf is the perfect place to keep your favorite books and magazines looking great in your home or at the office. Behind Verso is the designer Mikko Halonen from Finland. Verso was the winning piece in a competition together with a local publishing company with the brief to find a modern design for a series of classic books that was released in pocket format.

one nordic

Out of Touch: E-reading isn’t reading.

Amid the seemingly endless debates today about the future of reading, there remains one salient, yet often overlooked fact: Reading isn’t only a matter of our brains; it’s something that we do with our bodies. Reading is an integral part of our lived experience, our sense of being in the world, even if at times this can mean feeling intensely apart from it. How we hold our reading materials, how we look at them, navigate them, take notes on them, share them, play with them, even where we read them—these are the categories that have mattered most to us as readers throughout the long and varied history of reading. They will no doubt continue to do so into the future. Andrew Piper, Slate

Edible books

This board is meant to be deliciously literary. Pass the forks.

Tattered cover

Ramirez

Un librero que funciona como cualquier otro, con la gracia de que se puede usar como divisor de espacios por su ligereza y doble vista. Está fabricado en madera de Nogal certificada con ISO 14,000. Acabado con cera natural de abeja libre de químicos dañinos y 100% mexicana. Medidas: 230cm frente x 35cm ancho x 138 cm de altura.

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