Layers

Richard Hutten

Round sofa

Zhdanova Irina

Pimp My Bookcart

First Prize Food for Thought by Student Employees of Columbia University Library.
Author comments: Hot dog carts and used book vendors are a staple of any New York City sidewalk. A team of student work-study employees at Columbia’s Butler Library drew on this urban inspiration to transform a vintage wooden bookcart into Broadway’s hottest book stand. Having wheeled the refurbished bookcart from the quiet library stacks to the bustling corner of Broadway and 113th Street, Columbia undergraduate Evan Roth poses as a book vendor to the amusement of even the most jaded New Yorkers. And then it’s back to the library stacks to serve up fresh books!
Unshelved

Looking at libraries

Looking at libraries: defining space through content
Valeria Madill

Reed Space: chair shelves

upsetters

Bookcase

By Jay Heo (Sheridan College)

Library table

Here's a fabulous, true mission style library table, ala Frank Lloyd Wright! It measures 29x46 with a rectangular top, mission edge, side book storage, angled pedestal mission base with corbels and 21" drawer (a keyboard pullout is an option). Quarter sawn oak only.
Amish Tables

Autum

Sheet metal, hand-treated and lacquered to give a rust effect. They can be joined together showing a sort of x-ray of a leafless tree.
David Sanchez and Pcm

David Choe

David Choe

Shilf

What better way to showcase your Vonnegut collection alongside your beloved tchotchkies than the SHILF modular shelving system. Steel components in ivory powder-coat combine as you see fit, with no tools or hardware, to make any collection the talk of the town.
Blu Dot

Hive

anyroom

Wave and Sequence

— Designer: Pierre Charpin
— Producer: Galerie kreo
Open bookshelf made in metallic varnished aluminum.
Pierre Charpin

Caminetti moderni

Edilkamin

Arie

e15

Rambler Rose

Thorsten Franck

Bar Code

Enzo Berti

Nan 15

faserplast

Bookshelf bookends

Vintage electroformed polychrome Scholar on step ladder bookends by Marion Bronze. Circa 1920's (5"W x 7.5"T x 4.5"D)
Everything But The Books

Trilogy

Smart Furniture

Crisis shelf

A piece of furniture reminding us of the times we are living, the valuables of our society, the needs we have and some of the matters that worry us. The shelf has various permanent objects which represent and substitute some of the valuables of today
cate&nelson

Lens

Like all tables and small tables in the collection, the small Lens bookcase features a back made up of two sheets of glass with a special film inside, which create a clear surface full of depth and a kaleidoscopic effect reminiscent of leadsealed glass façades in 18th century Venetian palaces.
Patricia Urquiola

Perriand bookshelves

Bookshelves, ca.1950. Bent steel and wood. 78 x 140 x 23,5cm. Charlotte Perriand, Ateliers Jean Prouvé.
Galerie Patrick Seguin

Softshelf

Softshelf is inspired by the idea of creating a bookshelf that deforms the rational cellular grid in order to create a custom occupiable, differentiated, and soft space for the storage of books and other objects. It is fully customizable by manipulating five customer controls embedded in a parametric design system: overall size of the shelf, overall geometric effect of the shrinking and expanding of boxes, the strength of this geometric effect on the entire shelf system, the curvature shape of the shelf, and the stretched shape of the boxes. Softshelf takes advantage of the rigidity and fluidity of wood combined with the precision of CNC milling technology to create a monolithic and continuous form, sturdy yet geometrically complex, and ultimately innovative.Softrigid

Forest

Boca Do Lobo

Pattern

Alfredo Haberli

Soft shelf

Lateral

Daywriter

Der Daywriter hat alles, was man von einem guten Heimcomputer erwartet. Ohne Angst vor Datenverlust können Sie den Schieferblock mit Ihrer Lieblingsliteratur beladen. Mit Tafelkreide können homemails für Ihre Liebsten geschrieben und nach Bedarf mit der bewährten “Schwamm drüber“- Methode gelöscht werden. Daywriter, das erste interaktive Möbel der Welt mit dreidimensionaler Benutzeroberfläche.
Peter Freund

Bibliothèque Réaction

A cross-section of a space lab in which we pursue our literary discoveries, Reaction participates in the perception of the piecemeal world that surrounds us. Micro-architecture for the interior, scenographic expression of exterior reality, Reaction prepares us for our return to the land of noise. Designer: Olivier Peyricot
APCI

Billy's brother

This is an hybrid between an ordinary bookshelf and a sculpture.The shelves are displaced in a wave like motion. This creates an interesting expression and a playful meeting between the wall and the floor.

ADDI

Good as gold

The Plaza Branch of The Kansas City Public Library has a sculpture, titled “Good As Gold,” created by internationally known artist, Donald Lipski. The 500 pound sculpture was installed on August 2, 2005 and Mr. Lipski attended the installation and presented informative slides while he discussed his body of work, as well as the Plaza's sculpture. “Good As Gold,” purchased at a cost of $34,000, stands eight feet high and is a continuous loop of books resting on steel feet. Holes drilled into the books were strung like beads onto a steel bar. Lipski stated that the project took “two to three months” from inception to completion.
Most of the books looped into the sculpture came from the Book Barn in Bridgehampton, New York and were selected by Lipski based on size, color, and subject matter. As a special addition, a few books at the base of the sculpture are withdrawn items from The Kansas City Public Library's collection. The title of the sculpture in named after author Joseph Heller's novel “Good as Gold”.
Photo: GwENvision

Globe Wernicke Corner Bookcase

An American businessman Henry C. Yeiser set up a furniture factory called The Globe Files Co in Cincinnati in 1882. The factory started manufacturing office and filing furniture. In about the same time, a furniture factory called The Wernicke Co was set up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A few years later The Wernicke Co designed a bookcase, which consisted of different sized glass cabinet components. By stacking these components on top of and beside one another, you could create different wholes.
The Arts & Crafts Home/Vintage Office

Rosa

Book-shelf unit - with a distinctive feature - with wooden structure covered with veneer. Equipped with 3 drawers and 1 upper door, with polished steel or wooden or lacquered frontal panels. Design Evgenij V. Poliantsev
emmemobili

Kansas City Public Library - Central Library

wcboo28

Cardiff Central Library temporary building

Athanasius

Platzhalter

Bookshelves often seem to burst. You always try to squeeze in another book into the last gap which is far too narrow. „Platzhalter“ gives in to force and makes space for more books by literally bursting. An initially hidden board stretches between the split halves and widens the usable surface. The more books you add to the shelf, the wider it opens. The classical rectangular shape turns into a V-shaped outline until the shelf reaches itsdefined limit.
Farsen Schollhammer

Bookmark

Fulguro

Rubik

Carlo Cumini

Folding bookcase

This narrow bookshelf is ideal for books and collectibles in the living room, office or any room! Made of solid wood, this bookcase folds easily for storage and mobility. Four shelves offer ample storage, and the narrow design is a guaranteed space saver.
Stacks and Stacks

Sister's Cylinder Bookcase

Designed by T. Sheraton, 1802.
Project Gutenberg's Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield

Trompe l'oeil

This Trompe l'oeil bookcase is actually doors leading into a dining room.
Painted Worlds

Vasu

Mikko Laakkonen

It ain't fair

It ain't fair

Graffititek

hellokarl

Repisa N5

Sebastian Errazuriz

Walnut revolving bookcase

Victorian period walnut revolving bookcase. It has a triangular form on a tripod base. Dates to the 1870-1890 time period. The triangular top spins 360 degrees. Solid walnut. Nice turned finial on top. Original brown porcelain casters. Original iron brace on the underside of the legs.
Ruby Lane