Twig

* description/ tall open book shelf, freestanding or attached to a wall
* dimensions/ 20”x8”x50”
* materials/ powder coated steel frame
* choice of colors/ frame: black, silver, red
Faktura

Books installation

This architectural installation of a wave-like modular book structure and a cylindrical space shows the intensive spatial atmosphere exerted by books. The open installation condenses the intimate feeling of old libraries from which anybody finds it hard to escape. Large used books of outdated titles and too old to be read, are assembled with a special designed metal connector. An endless modular meta-grid applies its function to walls, room dividers or shelves.

Ideally the developing structure is a personalised object. Old books find a new use which have been collected through a lifetime - the ‘books’ structure will be like no other, a distinctive modular wall is created!


studio aisslinger

Hampshire Step Shelf

Inspired by a classic library stair, the Hampshire Step Shelf offers a unique way to display books, plants and collectibles. Three stepped shelves create depth, allowing you to enjoy the details of each displayed item up close. Crafted of wood with rich mocha finish.
Ballard Designs

Hive

Winner of the Coup de Coeur award at the 2009 Maison & Objet show in Paris, exclusively at CB2. Three-hive open pyramid stacks to display magazines, books, objects. Wood composite with matte white finish.
cb2

Mobile Book Shelf

beig design

Cok Cok bookshelf

Serhan Gurkan

Book Nook

This Library playhouse is just the right size for young children to explore and was built out of hundreds of discarded children’s books by Nathan Nissen, a University of Iowa Civil Engineering graduate student. The Book Nook was finished and painted by Iowa City artist Deanne Wortman and her woodworker son, Eric Wortman.
Iowa City Public Library

Wintertree

Twentyfirst

Ad Hoc bookcase

A Mid-Century-inspired bookcase with an angular design and turned, wood spindle legs. Sliding, burnished doors with perforated detail; duo of shelves at the inside. Solid at the back.
Urban Outfitters

Keep it like a Secret

Keep it like a Secret tries to dissolve the archetypical shape of a shelf by duplication and displacement. Thereby some unconvenient spaces are created, open to several storing purposes.
material: film-faced plywood
dimensions: 95 (w) x 186 (h) x 54 (d) cm
Studio Proxy

Mellow Shelf: versions 1 and 2

Establish a relationship between the convenience and the playful, taking advantage of the material flexibility. The modules allow users to choose the appearance of the bookshelf by adding or removing modules, according to their needs and available space. Modularity also allows playing with shapes and colors. The result may be a bookcase that has one, two, or many colors. Finally, no matter how large or small, high or low this bookcase can be, the fun is to have a modular and flexible bookcase that deforms under the weight of books and objects and can be always changing appearance.
Baita Design

Tree library

YS-Studio

Harp bookcase

Carnyz on Etsy

Tatik

Target

Patatras

Rolling shelf
Material: expanded polypropylene
Dimensions: D.122 cm w.29 cm
Michael Bihain

Lighthouse travelling library

Lighthouses were often time located in remote areas and as such had no access to city services such as libraries, opera houses, entertainment, etc. that most people enjoyed who lived in a town or city. As light keeping was a lonely profession in most cases supplies were brought to them by lighthouse tender ships. One of the items the tender supplied was a library box on each visit as pictured. Library boxes were filled with books and switched from station to station to supply different reading materials to the families.
Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy

SpringRoll

Libreria modulare di tessuto con struttura in alluminio. Puo assumere molteplici configurazioni a seconda delle esigenze. Gli oggetti interagiscono tra loro. Versatile, colorata, divertente.
Alessandro De Dominicis

Bike Shelf

Made from solid wood (in this case, Walnut) and suspended by a solid steel square rod mount, this shelf can hold both your bike, as well as anything else you want on it quite easily. If you want to just showcase your bike, that’s fine, but if you want to utilize the space for books, flowers, bike accessories, etc., that’s what it’s there for.
Knife & Saw

Paperback

Paperback is a wall system. Strength of the design is that it absorbes a minimum of space in your interior, but at the same time has a striking appearance. By completing the Paperback with books, CDs or little glass or ceramic products, it gets a very own, almost custom made chart and set of colours. Paperback can be used as a small, big or even wall-to-wall system and is standard available in white.
Studio Parade

Read

Bookshelf in Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm
Kim Yokota on Flickr

Worlds Wood Library/Xylarium

The World Woods Library is a unique, ongoing project , creating a collection of woods of the world in the form of wooden books. Many countries hav a Xylarium, available for scientific and research purposes, but our aim is to make wood libraries available to all.
World Woods Library

Sudoku

Horm Design

Change

A chronological storage space for books.
Chih-Cheng Chien

Paperback wallpaper

Tracy Kendall

Atelier 180

Atelier 180 ontwerpt en realiseert stijlvolle opbergmeubels waarvan het karakter het beste is te omschrijven als vernieuwend, strak, speels en eigentijds. De meubels zijn inzetbaar als wandkast, boekenkast, presentatiekast of als roomdivider.
Atelier 180

Squilibri

Powder coated iron bookcase.
Easy access from both sides.
Materials: Iron
Colors: White
Size: L160 W33 H73 cm
skitsch

Mobile bookshelf

The bookshelf is a mobile block that controls the opening of the bed. Its U-shape covers the bed and shapes the room by closing the dressing area, the bed or the working space. The mobile system provides a closed sheltered bed as required by the client without completely shutting the space.
Paul Coudamy

Ikea Billy Bookshelf Index: Israel Most Expensive, France is Cheapest

The following table lists the cost of Ikea’s standard Billy bookshelf in 37 countries, according to figures published on the Ikea website. The bookshelf was cheapest in France with a price of of EUR30.00 ($38.53) and most expensive in Israel ILS325 ($85.77). Across the countries surveyed the average price was $55.54. Prices were collected Sept. 14 and converted to USD at the average exchange rate over the past 30 days.
Bloomberg

Split boxes

Wall bookcase made of modular elements. 3 elements set (large, medium, small)
Materials: Wood
skitsch

Bookshelf cupboard front

Cupboard in white lacquered MDF with six interior shelves. The embossed graphic on the door reproduces the effect of books.
Materials: MDF
Size: L86 W30,5 H210,5 cm
skitsch

Levita

Column of shelves designed for OMEV company and made entirely in stainless steel. The shaped rod frame supports a series of hammered sheet metal planes, whose distance one from another grows the higher up one goes. The effect obtained is like the imaginary levitation of a series of paper sheets, beginning from an A4 ream resting on the floor, through an entirety of thin vertical lines.
Alessandro Loschiavo and here

Lako

A bent-steel wire rack for storing books and magazines. Compact and light, it can be placed next to a sofa, along the bed or in a similar spot. Periodicals and books that are arranged on it become a mini, mobile library. The handle at the apex of LAKO can be used to move the rack around. Its pure structure of straight lines and angles permits various possibilities for storing publications.
Studio Macura

Book carrier

This neat little piece of furniture not only keeps several volumes upright but lends them a whiff of class that transforms them into a decorative accent for any room. Known as book carriers, these devices mostly just sat on chests of drawers in passages bringing a vertical visual interest to storage furniture, also presumably these collections of books could more easily be carried from room to room. Made from sustainable timber and well shaped this is a little treasure! Dimensions: H11¼" x W13¾" x D11¾".

Ancestral Collections

City and Cumulus

Carl Hagerling

Suvretta

Designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981 for Memphis, Italy. Size: 80 1/4" width x 79 1/8 height" x x 13 3/4". Material: Wood/printed laminate in colors/metal.
nova68

Blockshelf

The dogma behind this product is probably quite obvious: what can you do with blocks of wood and cotton rope? Using a knot traditionally used for sailing and fishing, you can pull the strings and the shelf will disassemble. It can easily be put together again. The wood is collected from a local timber importers waste bin in London and consists of over 20 sorts of untreated wood. This is the first result of the rope and wood experiments.
Amy Hunting

Bookshelf wallpaper

• Made in England
• Pattern Repeat: 0.71 m (recommended to stagger them "randomly" for best effect!)
• Dimensions: 53 cm W x 3 meters L
Bodie and Fou

Circus is a hand-made shelving system inspired by the playfulness of the big top.  Each shelving unit includes up to eight colorful wire 'cages' that easily plug into the solid oak  surfaces, meaning no tools are needed for assembly.  The cages create both exterior shelf space and a small interior space where favorite objects can be highlighted. Designer Stephen Burks.
Matter

Plus One

Plus One is an additional storage container for any kind of regular shelf. Its sophisticatedly bent plywood results in an exclusive look. With a simple U-shaped tube Plus One can be attached to a shelf. Surely it doesn't add much more storage space, but helps to highlight your current folders or books in an unobstrusive way. It comes in walnut or maple feneer. Individually knitted socks for the tube not only protect the surfaces, but add an additional aesthetical level.
Matthias Ries

Boockshelf Sofa

Mario Esteban Galan

Reading corner

The connection between chaise-longue (day bed) and reading is rooted in our cultural consciousness. Combination between two objects to create an experience. When apart, the library "miss" the bed. In an open mode the user becomes part of the experience, and an intimate reading corner is created for him.
Inbar Paradny Kalomidi

Need not arrange any more

Kim Ji-hye

V Bookcase

Tall open bookcase with unique diagonal design
Dimensions/ 32”x12”x70”
Materials/ powder coated steel frame & Corian® or bamboo shelves
Choice of colors/ frame: black, silver & shelves: white, orange, red, bamboo
Faktura

The Bookcase Coffin

It's two seven-inch-deep boxes hinged together. The shelves are adjustable. When preparing it to be used as a coffin, the shelves are laid on the bottom of the coffin.
Last Things