Impossible bookshelf

I decided to make a bookshelf in which books fanned out like the voussoirs (the wedge-shaped stones) that make up a stone arch...There were a couple of problems that had to be overcome. Books are not wedge-shaped, so they will not fan out neatly into an arch like voussoirs do without some help. And I needed to find a way to stop all the books in the middle of the shelf from sliding down to the sides if someone took a book out from one of the ends. I realised I could solve both problems but fixing angled bookends at regular intervals along the shelf. However, rather than spoil the impression that the arch was entirely made from books, I disguised the bookends to look like dummy books.
Jonathan Emmett

Diamond bookcase

Anna Kruszewska

Starfield Library

Shinsegae Property has officially opened the large-scale library in Starfield Coex Mall, featuring some 50,000 books placed on towering two-story bookshelves. The 2,800 square meter-sized library is located at the center of the underground shopping mall. Shoppers can freely browse, read and search for books of their choice on kiosks stationed at various points inside the open library area.
Korea Herald

Chengdu bookshop

x+living

Unearthed book installation

As part of the Shubbak Festival of Arab Culture, the Great Court will be filled by Syrian artist Issam Kourbaj with hundreds of old hardback book covers placed side by side to cover 60 square meters of floor. Some covers are painted with blocks of colour, many others have a black line across them, echoing the Syrian tradition of placing black ribbons over the photographs of the recently deceased. These covers evoke memories of lost knowledge and lives. Watch the artist create the installation over a matter of hours.
Sunday 2 July, 10am–5.30pm. Free.
British Museum 

Subway library train

For the next six weeks, any member of the public in New York can head to subwaylibrary.com or download the New York Public Library's reader app, SimplyE, to have unlimited access to a wide selection of NYPL-provided e-books. The initiative also aims to promote the free Wi-Fi service at each of the subway's underground stations, which rolled out late last year. When users log onto the service, a link to the Subway Library website will appear, encouraging you to read a book instead of your Facebook feed.

Library Train is designed to look like the iconic Rose Reading Room with the seats and walls on each car made to resemble bookshelves (and a faux–Gilded Age ceiling to boot). The train is scheduled to run on the E and F lines between Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.

TimeOut  and New York Public Library

Parthenon of Books

The Parthenon of Books is the main showpiece at this year’s Documenta, the cult contemporary art show held once every five years in the university town of Kassel. The work by Argentine artist Marta Minujin is a plea against all forms of censorship. Minujin, 74, a pop art icon in South America, has described it as “the most political” of her works. In fact, the Parthenon of Books stands at the same site where, in 1933, Nazis set in flames books by Jewish or Marxist writers.

The Times of Israel

Whale Vilma bookase

A bookcase for children that can be used as a place to take a seat.
Villo Design

British Heart Foundation 'bookcase': Wear it, beat it

Rachel McCaulery, who had a heart infection last year, is painted red by make-up artist Carolyn Roper to blend into the Royal Society of Medicine Library for the launch of the British Heart Foundation's 'Wear it, beat it' campaign.
i News

Corian cat and dog bookcase

Sejal Tiwari

Chocolate library

There’s a mixture of favourite classics and beautiful vintage books, along with whole bays dedicated to books shortlisted for prizes this year...They may have chocolate inside, but on the outside they have blurbs and barcodes, just like real books.
More details and how to make your own at Playing by the book

Bookselling in the 21st century: When your store is a photo op

The more that the book is venerated as a physical item, something that, unlike a screen, people want to hold and even smell, the more the bookstore turns into a temple. The physical space where books are kept, and where booksellers friendly and grumpy alike can provide guidance in the world of books, becomes more important.
More by Katie Orphan at Literary Hub

Double J bookcase and lamp

A bookcase and floor lamp. The weight of the books helps the lamp to bend in a manner so accentuated to support the LED panel placed at the end.
Amitrani

BooKaos bookshelves

Modular and flexible bookshelf composed of vertical rails and horizontal elements that can be attanged to form shelves, containers, bookholders.
Mauro del Santo

How real books have trumped ebooks

Books have always had a fetishistic quality to them, with their dusty secretiveness. Now, though, it feels like we’re living through a special moment in the history of book design and beautiful books are everywhere. Take George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo with its marmoreal endpapers or Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads, with its cover inspired by mosaic from the Imam mosque at Isfahan; Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent, its sumptuous jacket inspired by the tiles of William Morris; 4th Estate’s gorgeous repackaging of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s backlist, based on vibrant African headwrap patterns; the glimmering Penguin Hardcover Classics reissue of the works of F Scott Fitzgerald, or its clothbound editions of Austen, Brontë and Dickens. It’s hard to know whether to read these books or caress them.
Read more at The Guardian

A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium

If you liked my books 'Bookshelf' (inspired by this site) and 'Improbable Libraries' (ditto), then I think you will enjoy my next one too. A Book of Book Lists will be published by The British Library in October and is now available for pre-order (if you're in the US then this is the link for information) and will also be available from your local independent bookseller. I know it's a little early for Christmas shopping but...

Alterna bookcase

Projeto de estante para livros com linguagem contemporânea.
Gabriela Martins

Reading snug shed

Rebecca Jones’ reading snug is the winning shed, as chosen by design guru, Kevin McCloud, at the Grand Designs Live, Grand Shed Project in London. The Grand Shed Project challenged five of the UK’s top interior and garden designers to transform our 10ft x 8ft Tradesman Storage Sheds into stylish garden retreats to showcase how the shed can become an extension of the home.
Waltons

Bricks bookcase

A free standing metal bookcase and room divider.
Material: 8 mm bar steel
Dimensions version 1: h 165 x w 100 x d 36 cm
Dimensions version 2: h 198 x w 45 x d 36 cm
Gerard de Hoop

The Gate bookshelf

Painted wood. Available in black, white or brown
zakharchitects