Experimental bookshelves

Using code to generate furniture Ulterior

Alpha

Inspired by the lines and planes from the urban landscape.
Dast

Mimi

 

Claudio Bitetti

Bookmark

Collection of tables
Pawel Grobelny

Rocky

Rocky is a credenza featuring an angular and sculptural line. Charles Kalpakian created a 3D variation of a classic pattern used by cabinet makers. He plays with our perception of space and volume with an object that reveals and changes according to the observer’s point of view. La Chance

Bullet-proof bookcase

A Melbourne man who helped destroy thousands of guns after the Port Arthur massacre has developed a bullet-proof bookcase that he hopes will save lives in the United States. dFENCE and The Age

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. Photo: Caren Huygelen
Atelier 010

Merry Christmas to all our readers

And look out for news of a new bookish book by the author of Bookshelf next year...

Shelfies

A pleasant collection of readers' shelves at The Guardian.

Library chair

Bespoke commission to design and make a chair to accommodate books. Made of solid maple with veneered curved sides. Beeswax finish.
Jim Bennett

Eroded bookshelf and coffee table

The eroded series of objects have been inspired by the natural process of Erosion – where a solid material like stone gets eaten away by an exogenic process like wind flow or water flow. This eating away not only results in changing the quality of the solid object (like smoothness or exposing the internal quality of the element) but also leads to the formation of surfaces and pockets that then become suitable for a different kind of inhabitation.This concept has been developed as a series of objects.
IM Lab

Alpacbeto

Give your books an original and dynamic arrangement: with Alpacbeto you can compose your own bookcase thanks to the honeycomb cardboard modules in the shape of letters. Choose the letters to compose a word or short message and place your books in the natural concave of the letters.
The Alpacbeto letters are also available in brown and black.
Designer: Fabio Biavaschi
Glook at lovli.it

Twist me!

In its side walls there are placed aluminium bearings joint with a wooden nut from the press. By turning the nut, the inner “walls”, are brought into motion and this way they can be positioned against one another, thereby creating space for any number of books. These can be fixed by sufficient pressing and library can be carrying even without emptying the bookcase.
Mejdstudio

BookBenches project

A new public art project will see benches shaped as open books. The benches - to be placed across London - will include one based on Michael Rosen's We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, another on J M Barrie's Peter Pan and a third on Kenneth Graeme's Wind in the Willows. The so-called "BookBenches" will be designed by international and local artists, and aim to promote reading for enjoyment and to celebrate stories linked to the capital.
The Bookseller

Shelfies

New column in The Independent Magazine

Serpentin

Serpentin is a very simple library play : an oak bar rhythmed by perpendicular bars on which the books of any size will be supported. A clever way to store books and to decorate its walls. Material: Oak, red, gray, white or black.
Thibault Pougeoise

Minimal Bookshelf

A minimal bookshelf with gaps at both ends. Slot a book in and it acts as a bookend. Chan Hwee Chong

REK bookcase junior

A scaled-down version of REK bookcase. Like the original REK, the five parts can be pushed in or pulled out to position them according to the space needed. Entirely made of poplar plywood.  The wood is finished with an organic linseed oil wax.
Reinier de Jong

Bookshelf Silk Tie

An image straight from the shelves of The Bodleian Library printed onto this natty tie. The Literary Gift Company

Mitt Romney's new hidden 'bookshelf-door' room

"The front door of Mitt Romney’s soon to be constructed Hollady house opens to a massive living room, and to your left, around the fireplace, lies a study. If you look closely at the bookshelves there, you find something interesting: a secret door. The second bookshelf from the far wall is really a door that swivels out to reveal a hidden room... The architectural drawings say it’s for "office storage." It measures 11 feet long and is lined with cabinets. The "hidden door," as it’s labeled on the documents, is masked as a bookshelf and swings into the study."

Salt Lake Tribune