Book Case is a temporary public reading room that travels in a suitcase (or two). Its collection consists solely of material that can be read in a single sitting - zines, anthologies, essay collections, short stories, poetry etc. - and changes according to each new location it appears in. Readers are encouraged to interact with each other via index/correspondence cards in each book, or by old-fashioned conversation in the reading room surrounds.
Makeshift Lab
Sheet metal. Fascinating and beautiful yet intimidating, the lightning breaks the sky.
Save Our Souls
This custom-made bookshelf is made out of 12mm oak planks. Ninety six individual pieces have been handmade and marked to fit into the puzzle of the 4.0 x 2.5m wall. The shelving is designed as an expandable system, it is self-supporting and has no visible fittings so it can be dismantled and re-used.
Studiomama
Los Angeles native Mike Stilkey has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only on vintage paper, record covers and book pages, but on the books themselves. Using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times a whimsical cast of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales. A lingering sense of loss and longing hints at emotional depth and draws the viewer into their introspective thrall with a mixture of capricious poetry, wit, and mystery. His work is reminiscent of Weimar-era German expressionism and his style has been described by some as capturing features of artists ranging from Edward Gorey to Egon Schiele.
Mike Stilkey
Designed by Colombo back in 1965 and based loosely on shop-style shelving, this authorised reissue (and 'special edition', which usually means it's unlikely to be around for long) is produced by Spazio Pontaccio, but is available worldwide from its clients. Choose from three sizes and a choice of finish (wenge, chestnut, white, black, red or ivory), all with that distinctive 3D-style look over two segments and ample room for books of various sizes.
Retro to go
Cityscape is the first of a number of cityscapes to be loosely represented as a coffee table. The cityscape offers convenient storage compartments which help to hide clutter. Lacquered MDF, walnut veneer.
Vaugh Shannon
Circa 1920, Austrian brass tabletop revolving bookcase. Four sides with pressed griffin decorated panels. 9"H x 11 3/4"SQ, original patinated surface, missing center finial.
Worthpoint
Pocket is the ultimate bookshelf made for paperback books. It is available in white with green, black, blue, red or orange backside. Designer - Karin Nyberg. Lacquered MDF. Length 1222 mm, width 670 mm, depth 20 mm.
Scandinavian Design Center
Design: Matt Carr
Carr found inspiration when he found two vintage coffee tables. Creating a bookrack for his own home. He configured them ingeniously to give these tables a new life as bookshelves. This design is now recreated with a mahongany natural top and black lacquered legs.
44 x 37 x 11" (111 x 93 x 20cm).
Umbra
Looking at libraries: defining space through content.Senior grad project at the Emliy Carr University under the supervision of professor Sandra Hoffmann Robbiani.
Valerie Madill
Bookcase No 9 (above), painted wood, 48x20x16. No 12 (below), dyed and glazed oak.
Vincent Thomas Leman
Accessible from both sides, this bookcase is ideal for collections that vary in size. Drawing one short balsa plank to its limit through the MDF frame creates a shelf while modifying the space on its opposite side, making room for a taller book. A locking system installed inside each shelf prevents it from being pulled through the bookcase. (Designer: Mass, France)
livebyarchitecture
Designer: Terry Schreuer & Alon Razgour, Israel. This ’shelf’ features a wood base and relies on simple spring mechanics. Place a book on the row of blow-moulded plastic blades and its weight pushes down metal springs concealed in the units it rests on. Supported on either side by unweighted blades, the book maintains an upright position.
livebyarchitecture
NEL reincarnate the Torres de Satélite (Mexico City’s ‘Satellite Towers’) as five trapezoidal bookshelves of the same name. The pieces in birch and walnut plywood feature a coloured side surface that refers to the ones chosen by artists Mathias Goeritz and Chucho Reyes for the original towers.
NEL
Quetza is a bookshelf that roughly resembles the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl who was shaped after a feathered snake. The piece can be leaned against a wall or supported by a table or chair. As it appears in pre-hispanic architecture, the snake descends to the ground as if sliding down a staircase.
A series of multifunction pieces based roughly on the shape of a dog, in different sizes and positions. These characters, named after famous Mexican wrestlers (/Dos caras Jr, Aguayo, Superastro, El Santo, Alushe /and/ Místico/) may work as a side table, stool, bench, bookshelf, magazine rack, newspaper holder, bookends, etc. By the way each piece is used, and the objects that interact with it, a different story is told. The pieces are made in different materials and processes. The pieces were manufactured by way of traditional woodworking techniques using scraps of solid wood such as tzalam, ash, red oak, poplar, alder, walnut, and pine. Through the combination and size of the pieces used each piece is given a unique character.
Nel
Because I love bookstores. Spending afternoons wandering the shelves. Happening across great books I didn't even know existed. But it's an experience I never found online. Online bookstores are wonderful. They've got amazing prices, huge selections, and they're open all the time. If you know exactly what you want, they're perfect. But somehow I kept coming back to the bookstore just to browse. Zoomii is my attempt to bring online as much of the real bookstore experience as possible.
Chris Thiessen
Zoomii
Marino Rossato, 2007. White coated modular bookcase with or without coloured back. Dimension: cm. 90x90 deep. cm. 24
Considering it just a bookcase will mean diminishing its value, Trilli is a wall ‘sculpture’ composed by versatile suspended wall units, to be shaped in a creative way.
The base module (90x90 cm.) is realised in P.E. (polyurethane foam) lacquered glossy white. It can be customised thanks to methacrylate backs, available in six chromatic variances: orange, red, light blue, fuchsia, green and black. The different shape and deepness of the modules (12, 18 and 24 cm.) design empty and filled volumes.The module can be used singularly or flanked to other modules, creating a facade in movement. Trilli is a decorative-functional object that leaves to the final user a free interpretation of its use and confreres character to the house.
OWO
The shape of the shelving unit recalls rocks rising steeply out of the sea, natural cliff faces created by the constant action of waves and strong winds.
The shelving unit tells a story about nature. The angled shelves, jutting out from the uprights and producing a play of light and shade, give a new dimension to the space. The sectional shelving unit in MDF (8 mm thick) with matt white lacquer and matt silver lacquer finish is designed for fixing to the wall (brackets provided). Each module consists of 4 oblique columns (not parallel to the wall) with fixed protruding shelves at differing intervals, and adjustable feet. To change the oblique angle from right to left or vice versa, turn the shelving unit upside down.
Kazuhiro Yamanaka and Bon Luxat
More than any other object, a filled bookcase reflects the identity of its owner. At the moment of purchase this Ready Made reflects the collective intellect of centuries of literature: the Top 100 of all time, everything you ought to have read – but never got around to. Filling the case means replacing classics by a personal selection. Great works become bookends to personal favourites.
Next Architects
Adobe Book Shop in San Francisco agreed to allow its estimated 20,000 books to be be reclassified by color. Shifting from red to orange to yellow to green, the books will follow the color spectrum continuously, changing Adobe from a neighborhood bookshop into a magical library—but only for one week.
Chris Cobb and McSweeney's
Prince of Siam: Plywood, oil, semi-transparent white varnish, 200×85×30cm
Readers Digest: Prototype, plywood, oil, 160×30×30cm, fitting for 3 folders
Studio Proxy
Ryan’s new creation is called ‘ZiG’ a modular display/storage system made from solid bamboo. The unit’s castor wheels allows for ease of movement – linking these units creates a continuous array of striking negative spaces. ZiG will be available in a variety of naturally stained colours.
Ryan Frank
Scultura Luminosa portariviste e libri. Realizzata in serie limitata in ferro acidato.
Versione aggiornata della celebre libreria. Realizzata in ferro acidato. Mis. 205x33 H183 cm
Mensola/libreria modulare da parete in ferro spazzolato o acidato con piano in plexiglas.
Bruno Petronzi
This site is dedicated to helping you understand and evaluate tension pole, compression pole, and wall-mounted shelving units for your home or office... From designer Julie Scheu comes the pogoHome collection, a functional and witty system well suited to loft spaces, in which threaded steel poles function as room dividers and, indeed, rooms themselves. .
Modular Pole Shelving and Julie Scheu
Trays are inserted into a wall panel in any order, so that each shelf system has its own unique look. Insert Coin provides an attractive place not just for books but for everything else that we want to have a special place on the wall.
Nils Holger Moormann
There’s this preconceived notion that books have to be displayed on shelves, ala library style but our modern lives don’t exactly allow for large shelving units and so we find other creative solutions such as smaller floating shelves. “Book in a Chair” takes a similar approach by integrating slats inbetween seat cushions along a bench. That way, a good book or magazine is always within arm’s reach. Designer: Sang-Hoon Lee.
Yanko Design
A bookcase made of 6 mm thick medium-density wood fibreboards, in micro goffered white lacquer. Back of melamine - coated board (thickness 10 mm). Shelves at various standard heights, fit into the backs through concealed slots. Adjustable feet. Ready for wall attachment. Height 216.3 cm and length 81.6 cm. Depth 25 cm.
mdf italia
Waaz is a shelf connected to a computer that doubles as a device for audio diffusion and archiving digital music files (MP3). Waaz also offers alternative protocols to those for the archiving and playing of audio files. The interface for selecting and playing music is original because there is none. The mere presence of an audio CD or of specific labels launches or stops the music in the play slot: the cover is the wand. The materialization of the performing artist’s world and image are relayed by a physical support. A device and a piece of furniture, a stereo set and a shelf, Waaz is an interface-object that fills the gap between immaterial music and tracks stored on physical supports. Wazz AL is a piece of furniture in wood. It is also an audio-stereo set connected to a computer. It has a 2*30w amplifier, two medium bass loud speakers, a communication system at radio frequency (Wifi) and a detection interface that uses RfiD chips. The system works in interface with a computer that stores MP3 files. The piloting software is composed of independent units (Widgets) that enable the user to produce his or her own disc covers or compilations and to connect them to the system.
NoDesign
"Now, some designers are challenging the tradition of an upright bookcase with surprising innovations, even building book shelving into a bathtub. Leni Leth, owner of Book Décor, a California company that specializes in refurbishing and selling leather-bound books, suggests forgetting the shelves, instead using books as risers for candles and lamps, on coffee tables and even in bathrooms. "Books can be like flower arrangements, but can last longer," Leth says. Books can even create the furniture. A stack of large art books topped with a piece of glass becomes a coffee table."Well worth a browse.
PLoP! is a storage shelving system designed for nomadic students on budget. Made from eco-friendly corrugated board, PLoP! weighs a mere 1.8kg and is collapsible, so students can easily carry it home with them, even on the public transport. Once at home, they simply have to remove the packaging, ‘plop’ it open, affix its backing supports and be prepared to be wowed as this humble material of a furniture holds the weight of dozens of books and objects.The great thing about PLoP! is that it is also designed for extendability, which means that apart from the basic 4-section unit, it can be extended to 6, 8, 10, etc. sections and STILL be collapsible! When the students are done with their short-term studies, they have two options in dealing with the shelf. First, and recommended, they can ‘plop’ PLoP! back to its collapsed state and bring it with them to their next destination. Alternatively, being a paper-based product, it can be disposed of and recycled easily if they no longer have the need for it or if its useful life has ended.Designer: Joyce Hong
Yanko Design
Cabinets characterized by one single door, as large as the whole front side of the unit, whose surface is interrupted by wide square openings disposed in an apparently casual sequence. This creates closed and open spaces, pointed out by evident profiles reminding the back structure and hiding it at the same time. The door slides in both directions until it juts out of the unit for 40 cm. opening all the previously hidden compartments.
Lodovico Acerbis
Bookshelf on wheels with porthole-shaped back. Available in all macroter finishing. On demand, shelves can be ordered in different colour from structure/back.
Jasper Morrison
