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Sherry Ann

All-Easy / Single Rack

Frack Design

Fractal

Edgar Navarro

Milky waterfall bookshelf

Marisko Studio

Albers bookcase for Gropius

While the painter Josef Albers was at the Bauhaus, he designed furniture for the reception room at Walter Gropius’s office in Weimar, Germany. Now the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation hopes to recreate and reissue the furnishings in that room, beginning with the bookcase.
New York Times

Huanghuali Travelling Bookcase

Early 17th Century. Of nearly square form, fitting into a slightly larger shaped and carved base and conforming upright frame with a rounded toprail with ox-nose bail handle to enable transportation, and with a pair of foliate-form spandrels where each upright arm meets the base, with two framed rectangular doors opening to the interior fitted with single shelf and a row of two drawers at the bottom, the front rectangular lockplate with square openings to receive the metal members attached to the interior shelf
24in. (61cm.) high, 25in. (63.5cm.) wide, 11½in. (29.2cm.) deep
Christies

The Golden Shelf: BILLY bookcase

John Freyer on a Fulbright Fellowship Project in Stockholm, Sweden, organised an interdisciplinary workshop with Social Anthropologist Johan Lindquist, during which their students completed fieldwork studies in homes around Stockholm and then made modified BILLY bookcase creations in teams of artist/anthropologist collaborators. You can find their results on their site: http://billybookcase.com

Building With Books

Building With Books began in 2004 as an elective course during MIT's January Term, IAP (Independent Activities Period).
More details here and here.

Ropeshelf

Ropeshelf is a bookcase where the usually solid, horizontal shelves are replaced by flexible, slant ones consisting of layers of rope fastened to a frame.
Laszlo Rozsnoki

Malus communis

Beyond the object, malus communis is a poetic place, a haven of peace. Since Eve offered Adam the forbidden fruit, the apple - fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - has always been associated with temptation. Malus Communis symbolizes this temptation through the various media of knowledge and culture of our time such as the books, cd’s and dvd’s it contains. Nowadays, the shelf has become an object, even an essential tool to store one’s knowledge and culture. Malus Communis calls to meditation, under the tree, where you can directly consume the culture you’ve just picked.
Defact

Jet Set

Jet Set is either Shelf Units, Installation Art or Signage pointing to your next destination of choice.(wall mounted)
250W x 130H x 620L
Material: 3mm white Acrylic.
Latorrecruz

Lineweight

The 3 lines are made of plexiglass and represent 3 painted lines which become shelves as they come down. The lines also act as a dry-erase surface to write and draw things. Paint rollers are stored at the bottom, serving as erasers. In between the shelves, there are drawers that can hold different things depending on the size, ranging from letter size paper, to markers, to CDs etc.
Unleash

Wind screen shelf

Air Division

The Barnyard Method

There's nothing sheepish about this Merino. Keep anything from books, magazines, DVDs and CDs within its fleece of storage.
64cm W x 74cm H x 102cm D
Karton

Side table

The Original Book Works

Will the home library survive the surge of the e-book?

"I've not actually read any of them. I just love the bindings." So said the actress Davinia Taylor earlier this year when she decided to put her house on the market – complete with its carefully-sourced collection of classic books. Rarely removed from their perch on a bookcase in the living room, their primary purpose was to disguise Taylor's walk-in fridge. And so, with the fridge no longer destined to be a feature in her life, the books were deemed redundant.
Read more at The Independent

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Sallie Trout's bosun chair

Designer Sallie Trout built shelves in an inaccessible stairwell. She reaches them by using a bosun's chair that is fastened to a chain hoist hanging from the ceiling above.
Trout Studios

Scroll bookshelf

Xin-Hung Lin, Pei-Yi Chiu, Chia-Rung Shu, & Wung-Bing Lin

Bookshelf Cut

Seven levels held up by a number of piercing pins create an asymmetric system where the books can be placed in between the sticks in both directions. Finally, painted in black to enhance the graphic look. Made of birch and designed to be delivered in a flat package. Materials; sticks-birch/ levels-mdfboard/ lacque- environmentally friendly paint and finish. Bolted together at each level, designed to be versatile in its height.
Lina Nordqvist Design

Skateboard bookshelves

Skateboards are full of energy - they're dynamic, their riders are always ollieing and railing and flipping - and the bookshelf should try to capture that movement.
Taylor Hamilton

Snowboard bookshelf

Approximately 5 feet tall x 2 feet wide. Exact dimensions will vary depending upon the skis used.
Snow Source

The bookshelf of the future?

Jeffrey Koterba

Long form library

This is a remarkable piece of furniture. The concept was to design an environment in which to read and contemplate. Just as crucial was the notion that the piece be incredibly modern in its aesthetic. Ron Arad, a designer you may be familiar with, often incorporates movement in his work. The library takes inspiration from this. Rather like the hull of a boat, the underside is curved, allowing steady gentle rocking, controlled by the occupant, as you would on a tree swing or an old rocking chair. It can hold up to 400 books of varying shapes and sizes, and/or several hundred CD's, DVD's, or indeed nothing at all, it is entirely up to you.
ifsodoso

Will tablets force bookcases to go the way of the TV armoire?

Will it disappear the same way the flat-screen killed off the TV armoire and Netflix killed off the DVD rack? Will the bookcase as a display of the well-read go the way of the photo album – replaced by the digital picture frame?
Tampa Bay Online

Wow shelf

Inspired from the Latvian ethnographic symbol - mara - which reflects mothers' love and safety, seen in the wow cups cradle. Shelf is bent from single, specially cut aluminium sheet, fixed together and powder coated in different colours for different interiors. 'wow' is easily attached to wall by special fleece tape and shelf holds up to 42kg / 93lbs weight.

Arthur Analts

Tilt

Stainless steel, 2008
74 3/4”h x 17 3/4“w x 17 1/4”d (190cm x 45cm x 44cm)
Sebastian Errazuriz

Bi Chair

Elemento Diseño

Cut

Seven levels held up by a number of piercing pins create an asymmetric system where the books can be placed in between the sticks in both directions. Finally, painted in black to enhance the graphic look. Made of birch and designed to be delivered in a flat package. Materials; sticks-birch/ levels-mdfboard/ lacque- environmentally friendly paint and finish. Bolted together at each level, designed to be versatile in its height.
Lina Nordqvist

ABC Libreria

Saporiti

Bookshelf playground

Koichiro Hoshino

Newton

Mini libreria per “sospendere” in 16,5 cm le proprie letture preferite. Nell'ottica del Recycle Design, “Newton” nasce dalla modifica di un vecchio morsetto dimenticato da tempo in cantina. Presentata da Civico 31 al Fuorisalone di MIlano 2010.
Francesco Polare

Tower of Babel books

Ephemeral work of art created by Marta Minujín. The Tower of Babel will be built with books of different languages ​​who will then form a multilingual library. The tower structure is a helical structure of 7 stories high covered with 30,000 books in different languages ​​and dialects that reminds us of the mythical Tower of Babel of more than 4000 years.
Marta Minujín

Angles

Daniel Enoksson

Shelf Conscious

The Guardian has launched a Flickr group to showcase readers' bookshelves.

Are you pedantic when it comes to arranging your books? Do you sit them on your shelf in order of height, colour or age? By genre? In the order you bought them? Do you place novels side by side only if you think the characters in them would get along in real life? Whatever your scheme and the reasons for it, we want to know.

Diamonds

chêne
h 227cm l 169cm p 40cm
h 217cm l 116cm p 40cm
India Mahdavi

Phi

Bookcase in wood
125 x 195 cm
Joachim Jirou-Najou

Dolly

Simply wheel it into place. Moving is a breeze as well.
Powder-coated steel.
Dimensions: 55" x 11" x 13"
Studio DZ

Double Access

Double Access shelf by Inga Sempé is designed to be used from the both sides of the shelf. This feature and its sculptural appearance makes it a perfect room divider.
Manufacturer: David Design
Design: Inga Sempé
Size: Width 1700 mm, Height 2220 mm, Depth 400 mm
Material: Poplar wood / MDF
Color: White or green
Finnish Design Shop

Sliding Box

Wall mounted storage box with hidden spring mechanism.
Gitta Gschwendtner

Modular Paint Chip Bookshelf

Considering the general form of a bookshelf the similarities to the common paint chip became obvious. Actual names of paints were used when naming the colors but were selected to create somewhat of a narrative. While the overall form is simple the details are the virtue of this piece. Designed to be easily movable the bookshelf breaks apart into easily stackable units. This makes it easy to move the shelf to a new location without having to unpack everything. It also allows the user to decide how tall the shelf is to suit their preference. A unique double-opposed half-lap joint locks the units perfectly into place and maintains the straightness of the vertical elements.
Port Rhombus Design

Bibliothèque

Brunschwig & Fils

Spaziale Series

The shelves’ covering secures the books, and in turn they leave their impressions on the skin, creating a sensuous interplay of curves, structure and content, redefining its form whenever your library is re-arranged.
Lanzavecchia + Wai

Gigaflora

Misura 200 x 150 x 20 cm la libreria realizzata in multistrato di pioppo da 25 mm. Le sue forme si rifanno alle strutture che il mondo vegetale utilizza ampiamente, i suoi "ripiani - diramazioni" sostenuti da corda da rocciatore da 6 mm sono regolabili ed offrono svariate geometrie.
FCRdesign

Disco shelf

Disco play multiple roles in your home. They can be your elegant decor and sturdy bookcase at the same time.
dimension (56.5 x 30.0 x 95.0)
plywood + yellow cast resin
Kenyon Yeh

Kenn Brutal

Kenn Brutal by Kenyon Yeh from Kenyon Yeh on Vimeo.

This unique shelf system in each individual shelf has uncertain quadrilateral shape; the cutting technique is very unique along with the way to connect all the pieces into one bigger scale piece that is a brutal process.
Kenyon Yeh

a&b

Steel shelves (thickness 4 mm) with high resistance, lacquered with epoxy powder in mat white Ral 9010 and Light Tone finishes. The shelves are provided with partition panels fitted with protective trim in polyethylene and expansion screws for fastening to the wall. The partition panels can be in metacrylate or MDF mat lacquered in Ral 9010 and light tone or in natural olive-oiled ash. Metacrylate panels can be in the colors: neutral, light green, light blue and orange.
pallucco