Designed by Peleg Design. Printed cardboard boxes for elegant storage on book shelves. Looks like books but stores those little things that have no where to go. H25 x W17 x D20cm
Monkey Business

Block I, II & III

Hector Esrawe

Carousel book rack

Hand-crafted in Iowa of birch hardwoods with a protective clear lacquer finish, the capacious desktop bookcase measures about 13' square and rotates on ball bearings. Use each quarter section as a mini-bookshelf--each quarter holds six or seven books. Woodform

Booksling

Why do I have to use such a huge shelf if i don’t need so much space? is the question behind b.shelves. The main idea was to create a system which would only take up as much space as needed. It is a shelf responding to the books it is carrying.
b.shelf is an elastic sheet between two poles. By putting a book on the shelf, the elastic part will sink. The more books you put on the shelf, the more they are going to sink. Combining three or four b.shelves together will create unexpected shapes.
Tolga Soran

Booxx

Bookcase with steel plate frame and sheet metal shelves. in finishes: galvanized zinc, matt white and matt black lacquered. the panthograph frame allow a free bookcase position on the wall, to satisfy aesthetics or space required.
Desalto

Lectio

The bookshelf combines in a poetic way the pleasure to read and the object of the clock. It gives the possibility to dedicate itself completely to the reading without restrictions of time... There are millions of clocks around us. The wall clock is always there, you see it all the time and you can do nothing. The power must return to the people. When a person wants to have a moment of Ozio, for example while he/she is reading, he/she should be able to do that without any restrictions of time... If there is the book on the shelf, his weight will push the clock forwards. If you take away the book the mechanism pushes the book backwards and you can see only the matt window.
Sabines

3 String Shelf

All that is needed to make a shelf are three lines and six connections at the corner of a wall. Bright in color, yet almost invisible, this shelving is adaptable by the simple placement of store bought eyelet screws along a wall and nylon rope tied at both ends.

This is the essence of a bookshelf as the shelf has been broken down into its most minimal components. Books stay in place by sitting on the angled bottom two strings while letting gravity do the rest of the work as the books lean into
the back string. This system can be strung as one shelf or as an interconnected corner shelving unit.
Lara Knutson

Frame bookshelf - mirror

Philippe Starck

IKEA Billy Bookshelf Index

The following table lists the cost of Ikea’s standard Billy bookshelf in 38 countries, according to figures published on the Ikea website. The bookshelf was cheapest in the United Arab Emirates with a price of AED175 ($47.64) and most expensive in Israel ILS395 ($103.48). Across the countries surveyed the average price was $60.09. Prices were collected on Sept. 7 to 9 and converted to USD at the average exchange rate over the past 30 days.
Bloomberg

The Matching Tree

The Matching Tree is a system furniture, utilizing the expansion and rotation of supporting pillars to match the furniture with the surrounding interior of all heights and shapes, without any drilling or destructing the buildings. The Matching Tree also consists of ladder, which is required when reaching for the upper bookshelves; normally the ladder is embedded into the bookshelf, and may be lowered when required.
Kuan-Sheng Wu

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Jurjen van Hulzen

Reading Lamp

A lamp that shuts off when you put a book on it, and that turns on when you take your book to read it. Polycarbonate, Compact fluorescent light, Electronic infra-red switch. Group project developed with Alban Le Henry, Olivier Pigasse and Vincent Vandenbrouck.
Jun Yasumoto

Left or Right BIG

Left or Right is now also available as a floor and reading lamp. With a book storage and an optional coffee table. A pack of large-sized books, catalogues or magazines are responsible for the required stability of Left or Right BIG. A steel cover plate transforms the pack into a coffee table whose height can be adjusted to individual need.
With a total height of 117 cm the lamp suits excellent as a reading lamp beside the sofa.
Available in a left and right variant, powdercoated in white or black. Technical details: E27, 60 watt, pull switch, transparent cable 400 cm, dimensions 117 x 31 x 26 cm.
Julian Appelius

Community bookcase

This is indeed a normal, everyday bookcase with glass doors that you can open and contents inside that are 100% free to the public. No library cards, overdue notices or payment required. At this bookcase you simply visit it, find a book (or two) that you want, remove it and put it in your little tote or bicycle basket, and then go on your merry little way. The bookcase only asks that in return, you bring some of your own books back to replenish the supply.
decor8

Drugs factory hidden behind bookcase

A bookcase inside a barn near Crowle hid a secret door which led to a three-room cannabis factory, police discovered during a drug raid yesterday. At the top of a secret staircase, inside a converted barn off the A161, officers found harvested plants and a drying rack containing 'several thousand pounds worth' of potent cannabis buds.

Two large rooms plus an attic had been used to cultivate the illegal drug, with the whole operation completely undetectable from the outside. Teams of officers including the dog section, forensic specialists and scenes of crime officers (SOCOs) headed to the rural address, after receiving information.

After forcing entry to the drug barn, police quickly realised there was a first floor – but with no stairs, the problem was getting up there.

Sgt Martin Coffey, who led the raid, said: "We were looking for the stairs when Pc Craig Day realised the bookcase was against a piece of hardboard rather than a solid wall. We tried to move it but it was actually fixed to the board – eventually it came away when the padlock holding it broke. Behind that secret door was a second one. Once we broke the locks on that we found the stairs."
thisisscunthorpe.co.uk

Darwin

* Solid European Maple
* Powder coated mild steel
* Bute wool fabric
Malin Källman

Felt stool

This stool is made out of 8 layers of industrial gray felt and 2 layers of veneer. We put together the felts by using epoxy resin. The curves at the bottom helped us to give it more structurally strength. Our main goal was to give this stool multiple purpose use. This model can be used as a table and a book shelf.
Team members: Elissa Myres, Bethany Casperite, Can Onart

Ideal bookshelf

For a while, I've been documenting people's bookshelves as a form of portraiture; you can actually learn a lot about folks by their books' covers. Now, I'm working on a series of "ideal" bookshelves: sets of favorites—mine or someone else's—amalgamated in a picture, even if they don't usually live on shelves anywhere near each other.

Deliberately grouping the books—instead of painting them as they are serendipitously found—makes me focus much more on the physical books themselves, and in particular, the design of the spines. It's such a small place for a lot of information, with very little room for distinct characteristics, even though it's exactly what you use to identify books. As someone who does a lot of design work, I love the process of turning graphic design into art. And I love that a book is something created very personally and then mass-produced in order to affect many other people very personally. I group and paint them to turn them back into something very personal and intimate.

This set happens to be a grouping of my favorite children's books; I’ve been more influenced by books I read as a kid than books from any other time in my life.
Jane Mount

Chin up

Chin up's tilted shelving presents the spines of products to the user, reducing the need to kneel to find what is required.
Lisa Sandall

Melody

A bookcase where also big volumes have a place. Uprights and shelves made from MD wood fibreboards, goffered lacquer in white or black. Back of white melamine - coated (thickness 10 mm). By flanking more units, you can create large-sized configurations. Adjustable feet to 15 mm. Ready for wall mounting.
mdf italia

Shelf of shelves

Plywood, various wood veneer. A display shelf incessantly displays itself without the participation of decorative objects. With a composition of four independent shelf units of proportionately diminishing sizes, each unit suggests a distinctive content by describing its own space and may be repositioned to create varying configurations.
Hans Tan

Varvis

Life is a chaos. So is our bookshelf. We didn’t think outside of the box. We just thought many boxes. You add your playful creativity and the result is a one of a kind. Think of Varvis as a rebel among bookshelves. Conformity is for cowards. Varvis dares to be different and will recreate itself over time. Challenge your creativity! With a metallic frame, Varvis stands firmly on the ground. It’s the four wooden modules, all different in sizes, shapes and colors, that challenge your creativity. Varvis eagerly lets you build and create. Again, again and again… The idea is that, out of these modules, you can create your own unique bookshelf according to personal taste and preferences. This is Lego for big boys and girls! MATERIAL : MDF and metal
Gylldorff & Svalin

BarDeco

Inspired by the barcode, BarDeco is a contempory and unique set of products designed for everyday use within the home, restaurants/bars and cafes. Made from powder coated steel and solid oak, the collection includes a lampshade in two different sizes, a coat hanger and a book case. The unique design of the book case enables you to stand your books upright as well as laying them down flat. Magazines also fit very well in the larger areas.
Lina Meier

Storyteller

Like the books are telling stories so would the tables if they could. A book rack made of old tables.
Isabel Quiroga

Naggie

Can hold 10kg / 22lb per cell
Product size: 75x32x108cm / 31.9x16.1x15.7in
Package size: 115x36x12cm / 45.3x14.2x4.7in
Master carton:117x50x38cm / 46.1x19.7x15in
Krooom

Bookshelf is on holiday

Bookshelf is on its annual holidays until August 24 when we will be back with lots more bookcases, bookshelves and things that look like them.

Bibliotheca

A new architectural installation commissioned for the first anniversary of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in Sydney creates a spectacular space for displaying catalogues and other publications. Designed by LAVA changing lights and effects will adapt and grow in response to each new gallery project creating an ephemeral and surreal experienceLAVA

Porcupine

18 sections in various sizes. When a book is removed, the fluorescent compartment is revealed behind. The concept behind this is one of negative spaces - the books' negative represenations are made permanent in the structure of the unit.
Holly

Palmer

Bookspile

The shelf that does not require any bolts, tacks or glue. You only need a little bit of the imagination that without a doubt is found in every home.
Andrius Pocius

Biblioteq bookshelf

Biblioteq is a Cape Town art bookstore which recently relocated from Kloof Street to the Loading Bay near the Cape Quarter. To draw awareness to the move - the folk over at frank wonderment, Lowe Bull’s design company, created this interesting bookshelf. The agency designed and created a square font that, when enlarged and constructed, spells out Biblioteq. Can you see it big boy? Look real careful. Yeeeeeesssssssss. Love the inclusion of the AK-47. Always comes in handy during home time in Claremont or on shopping trips to Canal Walk it seems
Designer: Simone Michelle Rayner
Photography: reneé frouws
Assistant: Rotem
Cherryflava

Thanks to the new Liesmichl the days of dog-ears and bookmarks are gone for good. Liesmichl is not only storage for paper backs. It also keeps the pages marked for you while you have something else to do. The upper horizontal tray can be used for a drinking glass or other “reading companions.
Nils Holger Moormann

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Gadi Dudler

Cell reading bookshelves

Wang Xibel

Billy Heidenreich

35 million units have been sold worldwide of the IKEA shelf Billy – making it the world’s biggest seller when it comes to shelves. Following the slogan Pimp my Billy we have devoted our creativity to this classic IKEA piece to make it "wilder".
ding 3000

Wavy

I would like to express the beautifulness of space division into this work. I gave the geometrically vertical and horizontal divisions to this furniture composed of seemingly unstable curves, in order to make the audiences feel stability from an instable furniture.
Sang Hoon Kim

Stretch shelf

Cast Rubber + Machined Aluminum
Pete Oyler

Portable bookcase

Allcases participates in the GSA case program and has designed cases for all facets of mobile military operations. Computer and Field Equipment Cases, Field Desk and Mobile Office containers, Rackmount cases of all kinds, standard entry cases, double entry cases, Mini Rack Cases, Pro Rack Cases, RADE (Rapid Access Double Entry) cases, footlockers, trunk lockers, deployable bookcases, medical cases and weapons containers are available.
Allcases

Bookshelf etiquette

For James Purnell, who resigned from his post as work and pensions secretary last month, emancipation from the front bench has yielded two tangible benefits: a clear conscience and free weekends. So how has he spent his first footloose weekends? Rearranging his bookshelves apparently.
The Guardian

Espresso

The Espresso 72" H Corner Ladder Bookcase features five shelves and the open ladder and corner design allows you to utilize the versatility of the bookcase where you can see anything that you decide to put it on it from all sides. The rich and deep espresso finish is sure to bring a touch of class along with the function of the piece.
FastFurnishings

Bookshelf for Super-Lazy People

My desk is always messed with unfinished books and magazines that I think I’ll need soon again, which my wife is always complaining about. These are for people who feel even bothered just to stand up from your chair, grab the mess and put it away.
petitinvention

Single plate bookshelf

Mac Funamizu

Vademecum trolley

New version of the classic object designed by Bruno Munari in 1980. This is a trolley/bookcase made of chromed steel wire and with transparent float, black, etched or mirror glass shelves.
bonluxat

Milk crate bookshelf

Lool82

Alibook

A wing floating on the wall. Aluminium leaf.
Domodinamica

Autumn

Sheet metal with lacquered rust effect. A sort of x-ray of a leafless tree. By David Sanchez
Domodinamica

Front

A hidden storage, like in a James Bond movie. The door of the cupboards has a bookshelf print to create an illusion.
Front

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ITF

Skyscraper

Paul T. Frankl (American, born in Austria, 1886–1958).
"Skyscraper" Bookcase, ca. 1927
Maple, Bakelite; H. 79 7/8, W. 34 3/8, D. 18 7/8 in. (202.9 x 87.3 x 47.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art