To be or not to be: Science library in the Pavilion of Knowledge, Lisbon

The intention was to have a sense of 'discovery' when entering in this room, to find the books we have to walk along the space. We deliberately wanted to conceal the books in order to avoid the normal bookshelf image of libraries. The contrast between the black on one side and the white on the other, emphasizes the notion of being or not being. Two words are placed on the white surfaces of the shelves, "library" and "investigate", and encyclopedia definitions, such as "to question", "to know", etc in Portuguese and English.
Photos: João Morgado
P-06 Atelier

Bookshelf sideboard and cupboard

Front

Isokon Penguin Donkey

The Donkey 1 is one of a group of witty, modest and delightful pieces designed by Egon Riss in the late 1930s. The Donkey exhibits a flowing organic style using thin plywood to accommodate its pronounced curves.
Isokonplus

Library wallpaper

A clever bookcase design. Consists of two separate wallpaper rolls that can be pasted alternately to provide more variety to the design. For sizing calculations: The vertical distance between each shelf is 25.5cm with each cross shelf measuring 1.5cm in height.
Andrew Martin

Hive

Modular wall mounted bookcase made with solid wood and lacquered metal.
Durame

Read Me

A chair made of books and plywood
Maria Westerberg

Spread 10Y magazine rack

Since the summer of 2011, for many months, spread (BTp-Bund 10Y) was the most used and worrying word in Italy. Newspapers and magazines all over the world have spoken daily about Italy and its debt: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Save. Spread 10Y is a handcrafted wooden magazine rack designed to combine the "news" with the now "(in)famous" graph. It also maps the transition between the Silvio Berlusconi government and that of Mario Monti.
Photos by Sebastiano Pitruzzello
Studio Inesistente

Bent bookends

Дмитрий Куляев

Book partition

More books are printed every year, read and discarded. Even though many are taken to charity shops, they mostly go unsold and the charities have to pay for the books to be sent to landfill. The Paperback Partition is made from this waste, creating an aesthetically pleasing and interesting divide in a room. It provides both good heat insulation, and acoustic insulation. Research showed that most people felt that books as objects were beautiful and they enjoyed their solidness, colour and texture, which the partition shows off.
Lula Dot

Baker's Dozen Bookcase

Bring a utilitarian touch to your abode with this shelved ironwork unit from an English bakery at the turn of the 20th century. Moveable wheels.

203cm H, 195cm W, 61cm D

Anthropologie

Reading steps

A 19th century structure removed from context and re-imagined. A spiraling staircase – a fragment of a coil – standing in half shadow. It’s no longer a means to go somewhere, it has become the somewhere. Once held up by four walls, it is now re-mastered and self-supporting. Leavened by gravity and steel, heavy as the shadows. The oak and pine is pitted with a century and a half of daily rituals. It was discovered as a crumbling splinter of its former self. Careful, painstaking repairs have paved the way for its new function. A discrete yet bold intervention – a seat in place of steps, where dark cushions encourage you to pause. An old thoroughfare is now a place to stop, and read. In solitary contemplation, or intimate recital. The Reading Steps disorder the previous function, and create a new calm certainty. It’s about the beauty of a quiet disruption.James Plumb

Cemetery bookshelf: Jüdischer Friedhof Krems

The first public library in a Jewish cemetery. Designed as a memorial by Michael Clegg and Martin Guttman - the Jewish cemetery was virtually destroyed under the Third Reich - the artists created these bookcases in Krems in the size and shape of a grave stone with glass doors. It contains a carefully selected collection of books in German, English and Hebrew focusing on Jewish philosophy and the history of death.
Institut für historische Intervention 

Grow bookcase

A solid wood contoured shape and metal backsplashes compose a sculptural totem with a vertical development, where exhibiting objects or storing books.
Paolo Salvadè

Much Ado Books staircase

New stairs, made with spines of old books.
Much Ado Books

Asteroid

An unrelated object falls from the top creating holes in the shelves before crushing on the floor. This produces a field in which one can insert a pot plant or a sculpture that can live with books.
Durame

ZEX bookshelves

Levko Davydiuk

Bookshelf dress

Multicolor A-line Printed Off Shoulder Evening Dress
By Xunruo for Stylewe

Dune bookshelf

Dimensions: 2450 x 2450 x 380mm, 85kg
12 mm laminated birch plywood
Ships flat, assembly and wall-mounting required
Jaanus Orgusaar

Citybook bookshelf

A modular bookcase, flexible and suitable to any space. It grows out of a new interpretation of Housebook, designed for a single book. Modules are linked together by small magnets.
Mr. Less & Mrs. More

Housebook bookshelf

The Housebook table has a similar design to a house with a roof that a book can be placed upon to keep your page. The space below can be used to place cups or small books.
Dimensions: cm 21x21xh88
Material: sheet iron
Designers: Antonella Di Luca and Ubaldo Righi
Mr. Less & Mrs. More