KUB+ is a project that aims to bring functionality to living rooms with limited space, serving as a ludic and customizable furniture, allowing users to interact with the colored mobile pieces in addition to following the trend of assembling do-it-yourself and taking inspiration from famous toy Rubik's Cube. The project uses no glue and the pieces are put together through wood dowel pins. The material used are sheets of plywood and the finish is made with lacquer ink.
Fabio Teixeira
ITALIA è la libreria che traduce in materia vitale l’immagine di una Nazione, la nostra:ricca di cultura, storia e grandi potenzialità che tuttavia vive accasciata sul suo antico passato, mentre guarda fuggire grandi menti da sé e lascia ai pochi che restano la difficoltà di trovare una collocazione.
materiali: legno laccato, gomma, ferro arrugginito.
Andrea Vecera
Books breaking through the (faux) wall downstairs, referencing the "basement stacks" every library has. In this case it's as if those stacks had been sealed up during some remodel, and are anthropomorphically breaking through, referencing the old library, history, roots, poltergeists... Created for the VIA Advertising Agency, which recently renovated and moved their offices into the old Baxter building, which served as Portland's public library from 1888 until the 1960s.
Warey Myers
As I packed for the move, I questioned whether it made financial sense to ship my several hundred books across the country, and more important, if I went through the trouble of doing this, what was the point when they would only sit untouched in a different city, just as they have for so many years in New York?
Nick Bilton, New York Times
A Shakespearean reference of the old library's books "shuffling off this mortal coil". The books, some of which were actually once in the library's stacks, were gathered from local bookshops, then twisted and trimmed to fit flush against the paneled wall. There are whimsical, nostalgic Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Harry Potter-esque references also, since it looks magical, and it's under the stairs. Created for the VIA Advertising Agency, which recently renovated and moved their offices into the old Baxter building, which served as Portland's public library from 1888 until the 1960s.
Warey Myers
Trabalho de conclusão de curso, cujo objetivo era desenvolver um produto a partir da reutilização de resíduos industriais. A solução encontrada foi o reuso de bobinas de papelão, originando um módulo multifuncional, que pode ser usado como estante, banqueta, mesa de apoio e caixa.
Mariana Piccoli
"Leading product designer Ken Grange points at a bookcase. 'I designed this in the shape of a man,' he says. 'When I die, all my wife has to do is chuck out the books and put me in instead. That's real design for recycling."
Kenneth Grange
We've been hearing about it for years, but the bookless library has finally arrived, making a beachhead on college campuses. At Drexel University's new Library Learning Terrace, which opened just last month, there is nary a bound volume, just rows of computers and plenty of seating offering access to the Philadelphia university's 170 million electronic items. Scott Erdy, designer of the new library, says open, flexible space — the furniture is movable and the walls act as one giant whiteboard — allows student and staff "knowledge transfer," a concept reinforced by Danuta Nitecki, dean of Drexel's libraries. "We don't just house books, we house learning," she says.
You will need:
13 various scraps for your books **see cutting step #1**
Various scraps of white fabric or another neutral, background color
1" x 20" strip of gray, brown, or other bookshelf colored solid fabric
Selvages or textual fabrics for book titles
Steam-a-Seam 2
Fat quarter for the background
Binding of your choice
Don't Call Me Betsy
Inspired by the ability of every design to be made about fun and imagination. the dream bookshelf is a coversation starter no matter where it is. you livingroom or your kids play room.
Dripta Design
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
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
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
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 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
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
"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
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
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
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
Approximately 5 feet tall x 2 feet wide. Exact dimensions will vary depending upon the skis used.
Snow Source
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 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
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
