Mortar

Books, bar clamps. Installation at the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library
Einat Imber

Wilco (Berkeley)

Commemorative poster for Wilco’s performance at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA (18 x 24, 2-color screen-print).
Mikey Burton

shelf 114/115

diefabrik

La cultura eleva

dotdotdot

Book box

The book box has built in book stands which allows you to place different sized books randomly in the box without them falling over. The boxes can be stacked on top of each other or hung on the wall. You can flip the boxes and use it on the side, the legs then become additional shelves. Made entirely out of wood waste from factories in Denmark, with no screws, bolts or anything else.
Dimensions: W: 35cm, H: 47cm, D: 35cm
Amy Hunting

Clorophilla

Small library roof. Available in all leaves of the known universe.
Carmelo Giacomo Calanni Rindina

Public bookcase

A Bookcase, set in a public setting (sort of a park in this case) accessible at all time for all. No rules. A person may choose a book, take it home to read and bring it back... or keep it... or exchange it for one of their own books.

The first Public Bookcase was presented 2003.

All of them are organised and taken care for by a citizen initiative - Bürgerstiftung Bonn. Expenses are mostly met with the help of donations and volunteers.

Since October 2005 there is a second one at the Rhine riverside.
2006 - a small pavilion is turned into an open book stop following the same concept.
November 2008 - a third Open Bookcase
Just a week later - a fourth Open Bookcase
11. September 2009 - the newest (fifth!) Open Bookcase
Location: Bonn, Germany
Mol Mira-Guerrero

Duo

Ana Linares

This is not a bookshelf

It’s not an oddly painted bookshelf made of scrap lumber. It’s not.
Lewis Wadsworth

Foldaway bookshop

Campaign created the bespoke interior and graphics for the Foldaway Bookshop. We built the walls, shelving and sales counter entirely from cardboard which will be recycled at the end of the Festival. Stocked by RIBA Bookshops, Foldaway Bookshop is a specialist architecture bookshop.
Campaign

Book bike

Everyone has the right to build and cherish a private library.

With this in mind, we present The Book Bike: a custom-built tricycle stocked with 200 lbs of free books. Since July of 2008, The Book Bike has been responsible for placing over 3,000 new and used books into peoples’ hands. In spring and summer, you’ll find The Book Bike at Chicago public parks on the weekends; anyone who wants a book is invited to take something home to read.

Book Bike 2.0

In the summer of 2010, The Book Bike puts a spotlight on independent publishers: from hand-crafted zines to literary magazines and books, The Book Bike is a unique resource of the global independent literary scene.

With your help, all books on The Book Bike will be purchased from independent bookstores and indie press. Not only will the books continue to be given away from The Book Bike for anyone and everyone to enjoy, but every book and will have been paid for, thus directly supporting independent booksellers while keeping with the mission of free books for all.
The Book Bike

(lots more photos here)

Tide

Baita Design

Reservoir Dog bookshelf

Natural oak. A limited edition of 8 pieces.
India Mahdavi

Bookshelf planters

Plant Talk - Valerie Easton

Three two Bookshelf

Design by Jakob and MacFarlane. Bookshelf made entirely with metacrylate hand and welded. It consists of five stackable elements. Available in a choise of different colours.
T&T Architects

James Thurber interview

INTERVIEWER
You say that your drawings often don’t come out the way you intended?

THURBER
Well, once I did a drawing for The New Yorker of a naked woman on all fours up on top of a bookcase—a big bookcase. She’s up there near the ceiling, and in the room are her husband and two other women. The husband is saying to one of the women, obviously a guest, “This is the present Mrs. Harris. That’s my first wife up there.” Well, when I did the cartoon originally I meant the naked woman to be at the top of a flight of stairs, but I lost the sense of perspective and instead of getting in the stairs when I drew my line down, there she was stuck up there, naked, on a bookcase.
Incidentally, that cartoon really threw The New Yorker editor, Harold Ross. He approached any humorous piece of writing, or more particularly a drawing, not only grimly but realistically. He called me on the phone and asked if the woman up on the bookcase was supposed to be alive, stuffed, or dead. I said, “I don’t know, but I’ll let you know in a couple of hours.” After a while I called him back and told him I’d just talked to my taxidermist, who said you can’t stuff a woman, that my doctor had told me a dead woman couldn’t support herself on all fours. “So, Ross,” I said, “she must be alive.” “Well then,” he said, “what’s she doing up there naked in the home of her husband’s second wife?” I told him he had me there.
The Paris Review

TEEbooks

TEEbooks est le meuble de rangement pour vos LIVRES, vos DVD, vos CD, et votre TELEVISION; c'est l’étagère murale simple, légère, peu encombrante et économique pour décorer votre maison ou votre bureau.
TEEbooks

Etagère design ondulée

Avec la bibliothèque étagère ondulée, une vague de métal court le long du mur donnant une impression de légèreté et un mouvement de souplesse. Les ondulations sont conçues pour accueillir des objets aussi bien sur la partie supérieure qu'intérieure.
Absolument Design

Bibliothèque

Cette bibliotheque au design épuré met en scène les livres avec originalité et élégance. En chêne massif issu de forêts françaises gérées durablement, ou en métal laqué la bibliothèque s'utilise soit avec une petite entretoise (pour mettre des livres de poches, romans, CD ou DVD) soit avec une grande entretoise (pour des beaux livres ou des BD) mais pas les deux en même temps. Grand modèle : haut. 220 cm x long. 215 cm - Petit modèle: haut.100 cm x long. 185 cm. Grand+ Petit modèle : Longueur 3,25 m.
Absolument Design

Branch shelf

Size: W 50cms x H 23cms x D 19cms
Material: Powdercoated steel, hand cut vinyl wall stickers
Colour: Vermillion, various coloured wall stickers
Made in England
Susan Bradley

Ark

Situated by the V&A’s National Art Library, this freestanding wooden tower re-evaluates the concept of the ‘archive’. Its walls are made up of hundreds of shelves, holding thousands of second-hand books. Accessed via a spiral staircase, each floor includes a secluded reading chamber. Positioned to face inwards, the book spines form an exterior façade of monotonous white, whereas the interior view consists of a rich collage of colours and typographic textures.
Rintala Eggertsson Architects

Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Oslo and Bodø, Norway - Ark from Victoria and Albert Museum on Vimeo.

Sustainable shelving

Bookshelf made out of old National Geographic magazines
Sean Miller

Take a seat

Take a seat from darris hamroun on Vimeo.
TAKE A SEAT par Darris Hamroun est née du principe que les objets doivent s’adapter aux hommes et à leur habitat. Ce tabouret pliable utilise les espaces de rangement existant déjà chez tout un chacun. Il se fond dans un intérieur en prenant la forme d’un livre et peu ainsi se ranger sur une étagère ou dans une bibliothèque. Lorsqu’on ouvre ce livre, les pages se déploient pour créer une assise. Grâce à des plaques faites de bois massif et reliées entre elle par des charnières et des bandes de tissu, TAKE A SEAT se transforme en une assise d’appoint stable et confortable. La partie supérieure s’inspire directement de la couverture d’un livre faite d’une fine épaisseur de mousse gainée par un textile.

Canoe bookshelf

bellacor

Reading tables

Uli Budde

Three tier revolving bookcase

Unusual 19th c. faux grained three-tier revolving bookcase with graduated circular shelves fitted with intervals of faux books and with a turned finial to the top, and a tripod base with gadrooned bun feet.
1st Dibs

Backgammon bookshelf

When the board is closed it appears to be a set of two large books that could be placed on a typical bookshelf. On the spine of the first "book" an imprint in gold letters is Evenings At Home Vol. 1. The second spine had almost the same imprint - Evenings At Home Vol. 2. When the "books" are open they reveal a standard backgammon board of 42.7cm long x 48cm wide x 3.5cm thick.
University of Waterloo

Silverton Bookshelf Design Room Divider

# Pine wood construction
# Meticulously hand-painted
# Bookshelf design
# Dark, solid-color finish on reverse
# Superb craftsmanship
iRoomdividers.com

Wallpaper cart bookcase

Vintage wallpaper carts recently converted to bookselves. 2 available.
1stDibs

Eyewears library

Inspired by the shape of sunglasses, this library has two closing storage spaces. Conceived to be realized in MDF or polypropylene
Samal Design

Primo Quarto

A light and dramatic bookcase which represents the arched line of a waxing moon.
Saba Italia

Hold on tight

Your books are no longer in danger of toppling over. Over-sized wing-nut allows bookend to slide into place and be secured wherever it's needed. Offered in Beech, Walnut and Oak. Water based stain and all natural Shellac finish. Aluminum cube and wingnut powdercoated
Length 41", Height 11", Depth 8"
We know that bookshelf needs vary. Shelf wood, color and size can be customized. This shelf will need to be installed by a professional.
Colleen & Eric

Quitante

20.87 Estudio

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

Rope bridge bookshelf

Ed Lewis and here

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

Boa

A bookcase which also holds your wine
tuyo

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

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

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Hohrizontal 51

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

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

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

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

Mexique

architonic

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

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

Konnex

Florian Gross

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