Wednesday, 12 May 2010

3D bookshelf

I have been working with the concept of storage by looking at it, not as a practical issue involving the storage of known objects, but in sync with our memory; comparing the mental storage capacity with the acctual
Bjørn Jørund Blikstad

Monday, 10 May 2010

I love you library

Consists of two stylized elements: man and woman and represents different kinds of love... Made of welded brushed aluminium and MDF.
Samal design

Friday, 7 May 2010

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Cabana

A storage unit arranged around a central column supporting five shelves: the structure, in aluminium and other metals, is entirely concealed by dangling lengths of fire-proofed raffia.
Contemporary Home

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Adesso peró (But Now) bookcase

Made by Design Gallery Milano (Milan, Italy)
Wood, stained wood, veneer, glass
82 5/8 x 67 x 19 3/4 in. (210 x 170 x 50 cm)
Ettore Sottsass

Bookshelf rises in Wikio Literature rankings

1Dovegreyreader scribbles (=)
2Booktwo.org (=)
3Pepys' Diary (=)
4Peter Stothard - Times Online WBLG (=)
5Elizabeth Baines (=)
6A Don's Life - Times Online WBLG (=)
7Bart's Bookshelf (=)
8Ben's Bookcase (+1)
9BubbleCow (+1)
10ReadySteadyBlog (+1)
11The Ibooknet Blog (+1)
12Bookshelf (+1)
13The Beat (+1)
14Alternative-Read.com (+1)
15Eve's Alexandria (+1)
16Bibliobibuli (+1)
17ResoluteReader (+1)
18Asylum (Ent.)
19Mostlybooks (=)
20My Favourite Books (=)

Ranking by Wikio
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Monday, 3 May 2010

Hohrizontal 51

Wall shelf with integrated Dock for iPod or iPhone and integrated sound system. Connections for TV, Computer and MP3 players
finite elemente

Thursday, 29 April 2010

Ballerina bookshelf

Ballerina is known for her flexibility and physically strength. I used those 2 elements to be part of my shelf design where her legs are used to serve as shelf for books. Available in red, white or black. The Ballerina Shelf is 140cm long but can be custom made per request.
BothLeft

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Seuk

Modern, wall mounted, book shelf Seuk – available in many different finishes and sizes. It can be customized to any space or size and color.
etobic

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Hoi Magazine chair

This Hoi Magazine chair is a design made for an advertisement campaign by Jules and Jeremy. More than 30 highly respected people from the Dutch press and advertisement world have been photographed in this chair for the campaign. The advertisements have been printed in marketing and ad magazines. The HOI chair is made of quality MDF finished with mat white lacquer. The seat is made of durable sky and the magazines are laying on hardened glass.
Specs
116 cm wide x 82 cm deep x 73 cm high
wood: High quality MDF
wood colour: white (or any RAL colour) lacquer (matte, silk or high gloss)
sitting: Polyether SG45 foam with high quality sky
Glass: 2x4mm with foil NEN3569 layered safety glass
Jules and Jeremy

Friday, 23 April 2010

Archive IV

ARCHIVE IV challenges space and weight, by hanging from the ceiling. A wooden cylinder, 3 meter in diameter and 3.5 meter high, suspended from above, serves as a sitting area and as an archive for books and music in its inside. The visitor encounters a quiet space for conversation, and in the centre a rope ladder takes the curious to a level above, a micro lounge room, where one can look out into the crowd. From the outside, the introvert character of the structure hides the human body, only revealing feet at floor level, and the heads of visitors that climb to the top.
David Garcia Studio

Thursday, 22 April 2010

Walking bookcase

Commissioned by Wallpaper* to perfectly store the Wallpaper* City Guides. When the bookcase is pushed, the legs carry the table along using a complex system of cranks and interconnecting links and rods. Which is almost as clever as the built-in bookends. 
Wouter Scheublin (Creative Review)

Bücherregal chaos theorie





auf den ersten blick fasst diese definition die vermeintliche unordnung des möbelstücks zusammen und verweist auf die theorie der bücher. das bücherregal besticht vielmehr durch ein einfaches grundprinzip mit klarer formen. gefertigt aus 16 millimeter starkem esche massivholz, in cnc-technik die oberfläche geölt – mit dieser optik setzt die chaos theorie akzente. eine konstruktion aus steckverbindungen erlaubt einen auf- und abbau in kürzester zeit. und das ohne jegliches werkzeug. die schiefe anordnung sorgt schließlich dafür, dass sich das möbel selbstständig aussteift und auch großen belastungen vieler bücher standhalten kann.
Manuel Welsky

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Applied literature: Hübler

The Hübler is a creation using concrete – and books with a ‘concrete’ history – in various planimetrical surfaces. The absence of the books, due to their various dimensions, form different shapes of various depths and heights. The result concrete structure will not have a final shape, because, by using it, visitors can change the books or remove them. The politically outdated books have been donated by the Research Institute Library of Radio Free Europe, the once active radio channel, sponsored by the US that fought against the Communism before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The table constitutes a monument to eternal knowledge – set in concrete - and it is a monument to the degeneration of information, to the immortality of the past and to its disintegration, while also offering an opportunity to reflect on the essence of the book.
Ivanka Beton

Monday, 19 April 2010

Lotus retro bookshelf

Peter Rosengren

Cabinet chair


Have you just managed to think out of the box? Get back in and Google the world! The first Cabinet Chair was designed for the lobby of a hotel. Guests can have a look at brochures and books in this chair. Moreover, it is possible to use the internet with a build in monitor and keyboard. It’s the perfect information desk with a twist. In libraries, flexible working places, a waiting room or at home it can be a beautiful eye catcher too.
ontwerpers

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Perspective

Designed on the basis of the principles of perspective drawing.
oilmonkey

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Saturday, 3 April 2010

Bookshelf (nearly) tops new Wikio Literature rankings

1Dovegreyreader scribbles (Ent.)
2Booktwo.org (Ent.)
3Pepys' Diary (Ent.)
4Peter Stothard - Times Online WBLG (Ent.)
5Elizabeth Baines (Ent.)
6A Don's Life - Times Online WBLG (Ent.)
7Bart's Bookshelf (Ent.)
8Books, Inq. (Ent.)
9Ben's Bookcase (Ent.)
10BubbleCow (Ent.)
11ReadySteadyBlog (Ent.)
12The Ibooknet Blog (Ent.)
13Bookshelf (Ent.)
14The Beat (Ent.)
15Alternative-Read.com (Ent.)
16Eve's Alexandria (Ent.)
17Bibliobibuli (Ent.)
18ResoluteReader (Ent.)
19Mostlybooks (Ent.)
20My Favourite Books (Ent.)
21BOOKSURFER (Ent.)
22FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Ent.)
23Tales from the Reading Room (Ent.)
24Nantwich Bookworms United (Ent.)
25Some books what I have read (Ent.)
26Baroque in Hackney (Ent.)
27The Complete Booker (Ent.)
28NextRead (Ent.)
29Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Ent.)
30. A Book every Six Days . (Ent.)

Ranking by Wikio

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Thursday, 1 April 2010

Flying bookshelf

The Flying Bookshelf requires no assembly since each book is fitted with a mechanism which allows it to hover in the air. A new app for the iPhone allows users to emit a bird-like whistle which corresponds to individual titles so that each volume can be delivered to the reader without the need to rise from their chair.
Lipra Olof

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Livraria da Vila


Watch right to the end of the video to see the marvellous rotating door bookshelves.
Isay Weinfeld

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Comb

The bookshelf is a flat-pack product, easy to put together, yet attractive. It bulges from the wall like a sector of a sphere, creating a sci-fi effect in the room. Besides being an eye-catcher, it is also practical and the film-coated plywood is easy to clean.
Dimensions: 2200x2200x400mm
Material: 9mm film-coated waterproof birch plywood
designspray

Monday, 29 March 2010

Kantik

Bookcase to lean on the wall. Dimensions: 110 x 110 x 1,9 cm, Material: MDF, CNC milled cut-outs, Surface finish: white powder coated
PYG

Friday, 26 March 2010

Sliding Shelf

A wooden board is fixed on the wall and supports a number of boxes. They can be hanged, removed, slid freely, always changing the layout of the shelves. The back of the boxes are constructed in such a way that they compose with the board a plane surface combining different colours and materials.
Lutz Hüning


Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Spoonya

Outer shell made out of plywood smoothed and painted. The inside made out of foamed polythelene... with just the right spacing between each piece
Sturlesi Design

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

6 Degrees

A flexible shelving system based on a module, that multiplied allows creating many diverse configurations.
Maja Ganszyniec

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Hamachi

Hamachi er et opbevaringsmøbel der består af 5 hylder, der kan åbnes og lukkes med fleksible latexbånd. Jeg har forsøgt at arbejde med tilgangen til opbevaringsmøblet på en ny måde, og med enkle virkemidler at udfordre den klassiske skabslåges funktion og æstetik.
Jakob Jørgensen 

Monday, 15 March 2010

Le Bouc

Red, mobile and handy, Bouc is your ideal companion for reading. Bouc, a small, varnished piece of furniture dedicated to books, can either be an extension to your library, an occasional table for reading or placing books, or a desk for your book of the moment. Bouc loves books. It supports them, open or closed, keeps them available at all times, whether you are in your office, drawing room or garden.
It was designed by Mathieu Gabiot, edited by Speculoosbook and made in Belgium.
Le Bouc

Zelli


Cest une étagère qui reprend dans sa forme un système graphique issu dune structure en zellige (mosaïque marocaine). Le meuble Zelli est composé de 8 modules identiques, qui s'emboîtent et s'assemblent grâce à 3 formes de découpes différentes. Cette variation au niveau de la découpe n'a aucune incidence sur la forme du module, d'où un ensemble harmonieux et parfaitement symétrique. Le meuble est donc auto-structurant et auto-bloquant, c'est-à-dire qu'il ne vous faudra ni clou, ni vis, ni connaissances en bricolage pour monter le Zelli en dix minutes de façon solide et durable

Friday, 12 March 2010

Fill

Fill is designed to flatpack for transport and is basic to construct. A robust piece which is designed to withstand the heaviest of loads. Manufactured in aluminium with a hemp glass base. Powder coated finish. Exploratory prototype. Dimensions: W 2300mm   D 500mm   H 2000mm
Jon Goulder

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Off the wall

The idea was to make a 3-dimensional wallpaper, which gives an additional function more than just decoration. The wallpaper would roll out away from the wall as if it came to life. Wallpapers goes out into the room, test their limits and turn a moment into something else and then go back and establish themselves in their traditional role and place.
Kredema

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Bookshelf

Isaac Layman's unnervingly banal color photographs of household items are astonishingly subtle in their perception-based tomfoolery. The Seattle artist's earliest work on view presents an almost-seamless image of a bookcase whose spines are turned away from the camera, so that the books become little more than nameless swathes of bound paper. The viewer's impulse to scan the shelves for familiar titles is doubly thwarted when they notice that the photograph almost seems to shift its perspective, depending on where the viewer looks. Almost imperceptibly, Layman has combined photographs taken from different vantage points in creating Bookcase, resulting in a deceptive network of impossible sightlines.
Isaac Layman

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Cardboard

* Design-Bookshelfl
* Material: 100% recyclable cardboard
* SGS certified color-film made of PVC
* 100% environmentally friendly
* Durability is guaranteed
Reinhard Dienes