Brosse

Inga Sempé

Bathtub caddy

The ultimate accessory for rest and relaxation. Made from bamboo, a highly renewable resource, this expandable bathtub caddy has a built in wine glass holder and fold away book support. Overall 28 x 8.5 x 1.5" (71 x 22 x 4 cm) Extended length is 40" (102 cm) Design: Luciano Lorenzatti Umbra

Village de livres

Marie Montard

How to get married in a bookshop

Ben McNally Books in the heart of downtown Toronto has been the site of numerous literary events, book launches, and author meet-and-greets. But to Quillblog’s knowledge, it has never served as the site of a wedding. Until now...

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Book Tent

Are you a big fan of books? We mean, are you a really big fan of books. Because this is, well, it’s an enormous book. It looks like a giant has dropped his favourite best seller. Plus, it also lets you meet up with other book fans on the campsite. You can even hold book groups in your tent.

Field Candy

The Art of the Printed Book

EPILOGUE: the future of print from EPILOGUEdoc on Vimeo.

a short documentary about print culture and history made by Hanah Ryu Chung

Plugbook

An in-house extension cord. But it has 2 power sockets, 2 USB ports to charge your devices (also iPad) and a cable which automatically rewinds (like in a vacuum cleaner). On top of that it's shaped like a book so you can always hide it in the middle of your living room.

Plugbook

Winebottle shelf

This modular shelving system calls upon the structural qualities of wine bottles. The rapidly renewable, FSC-certified Kiri boards of pressed shrubs boast a beautiful, unique pattern. The shelves come in standard sizes of 1200mm x 400mm x 20mm. Fishtnk

The Book Barge

The narrowboat – a 57′ cruiser stern – was purchased in February 2009 as a part-finished houseboat complete with power shower, barbecue stand and a bottle of Hawaiian Tropic tanning oil. The transformation from living space to commercial venture was completed in three months with the help of family and friends. It is currently moored along the main shopping promenade at Barton Marina where the 42 hp engine and impressive pair of bow thrusters occasionally groan under the weight of hardback Solzhenitsyn anthologies. Or Babar the Elephant. The bookshop comprises a mix of new and secondhand fiction that tries to reflect the very best of contemporary, classic and children’s literature. Books have been carefully selected to offer a quality alternative to high street bestseller lists including, among others, specialist sections exploring topical issues, titular oddities and travel ephemera... we hope to promote a less hurried and harried lifestyle of idle pleasures, cups of tea, conversation, culture and, of course, curling up with an incomparably good Book Barge purchase…

The Book Barge

Blio

Blio organizza qualsiasi spazio con semplicità e lo arricchisce di personalità. Un sistema di elementi modulari con finitura laccata bianca, ognuno con altezze e profondità diverse, per creare infiniti giochi di volumi e superfici, mantenendo una completa e facile accessibilità di tutti gli spazi interni: dai vani a giorno, frontali ed anche laterali, alle ante che si aprono e chiudono senza maniglia, grazie al sistema “push-pull”. Kristalia

Art of the Bookcase: Bookshelf book reviewed in Omaha World Herald

Johnson's book features bookshelves and bookcases shaped like cows, polar bears, the hookah-smoking caterpillar in “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” or completely abstract shapes where books rest, seemingly defying gravity. “A decent bookcase really brings a room to life in the same way that a beautiful rug or a work of art can make your first entry into a new room memorable forever,” Johnson said. “People will remember a lovely bookcase long after they've forgotten a comfortable sofa."

Omaha World Herald

Mapping shelf

An acrylic bookshelf inspired by the roadmap of Bangkok

Manop Siripinyokij

Bookshelf book reviewed in San Francisco Chronicle

It's often said that the contents of one's bookshelves are very revealing, but this volume proves that how the collection is arranged may divulge even more.
San Francisco Chronicle

Paper Passion

Paper Passion fragrance by Geza Schoen, Gerhard Steidl, and Wallpaper* magazine, with packaging by Karl Lagerfeld and Steidl. This tells the story of a passion and a twisting plot to put the particular bouquet of freshly printed books in a bottle. This is an opportunity to celebrate all the glorious sensuality of books, at a time when many in the industry are turning against them. The idea is that is should relax you, like when you read a book, to a level of meditation and concentration. Paper passion has evolved into something quite beautiful and unique. To wear the smell of a book is something very chic. Books are players in the intellectual world, but also in the world of luxury.

UK £70.00 US $115.00 EC €88.00

Steidl

What Your Bookshelf Says About You To A Date

There’s a great and very important moment in every relationship — and Kindle be damned, it’ll stay that way — when you bring a guy or girl to your place for the first time…and they peruse your bookshelf. Are they judging you based on what they see? Yes — oh yes. And what will your books tell them about you? These generalizations will explain all...

The Date Report

Pagina

Equipped with movable shelves and available in left or right symmetrical compositions, so that they can be used together in combination. Design: J.L.Berthet/Denis Vasset
Cassina

The Paper Bookshelf

We've been trying to think through what the digital evolution of the bookshelf might be. And this campaign is our first attempt at fumbling through an answer.

Paper Bookshop

Growing cabinet

In contrast to other cabinets, the drawers of "growing cabinet" are located on the side. By pulling the drawer, extra space evolve, which can be use as a temporary storage if needed. This kind of interaction makes it a "living" object, that changes its shape and size according to its usage. Sizes: 150 x 85 x 35, extracted 150 x 145 x 35 Material: Plywood, MDF, PU-finish, mechanical components (steel)

Yi-Cong Lu

The Standing Library

The standing library is actually a rotating library, where the top stays still but the below part rotates. Made of solid oak and metal, it sits on a tripod base giving personality to a simple reading corner.

Nayef Francis Design Studio

Reading chair

Made from a set of tiny Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedias, pencils and salvaged wood This Into That

Flow

Le Mouton Noir

Butterfly Shelf

Woodcurve

Book chair

Poltrona libreria costruita con listelli di abete di varie dimensioni, cunei da falegname e parquet industriale.

Revoldesigner

Bookshelf book reviewed in Los Angeles Times

The wit and delight that the designers seem to have taken in making these bookshelves collides head-on with the rise in reading on hand-held devices.
Mary MacVean in the LA Times

Libreria Nomade/Nomadic Bookcase

Born out of personal necessity as a simple NID (Non-Intentional Design). It is essentially a bookcase made from plastic orange crates but is practical, versatile, coloured, transportable and infinite. The point in question is: can a logo go further than NID and transform some plastic crates into a design product?
Studio Inesistente

Parralleles

Anodized aluminium

Vidame

Stand Alone

The average bookshelf or bookends could prevent books from tilting. However when we remove one book, the adjacent books may tilt or fall. The more books that are removed will increase the problem. By using the special column arrangement of this new product called STAND ALONE this problem is solved. This new and innovative bookshelf on the wall makes each book stand upright, even with the absence of adjacent books. In this way the user can more easily classify the books.
Chihlin Chiang

Liquorice

Re-embodiment of a coiled liquorice wheel becoming a play of tubes, Liquorice is an innovative bookshelf in rotomoulded polyethylene. Cheekily irreverent, it treats books with respect and can be hung on its own or become part of varied combinations.
B-line

Bookshelf book reviewed in Wall Street Journal

"My own bookshelves are conventionally functional, unlike many of the bookshelves pictured in Mr. Johnson's paean to the physicality of the bound and printed word. Many of the featured bookshelves are more like sculpture than furniture, but they nonetheless store books. If bookshelves eventually go the way of spinning wheels and washboards, Mr. Johnson's book will remind our descendants of the whimsy and glory of making theater out of book storage"
Wall Street Journal

Buchtisch

Ab 2012 wird es erstmals eine kleine Serie des neu aufgelegten Buchtisches geben. Dieser ist von nun an vorerst nur in schwarz verfügbar! Für alle, die ihre Bücher lieben und ihnen ein schönes Plätzchen geben wollen, ist dies das geeignete Produkt. Ob neben dem Bett, dem Sofa oder am Sessel.

Studio Voigt Dietrich

Aliante

The idea is to create a 'low air-resistance' piece of furniture. The inspiration comes from aeronautics (Aliante is the italian word for glider) and the shape of the shelves reminds the wings of the aircraft. The winglets at the end of the shelves also create the bookends. The overall dimensions of the bookshelf are quite big (2,2 mt high and 2,7 mt wide) despite its very light and slim structure.

Davide Anzalone

UnWaste bookcase

The UnWaste bookcase, a collaboration between architect Ben Milbourne (Bild Architecture), eco-designer Leyla Acaroglu (Eco Innovators) and specialist furniture designer David Waterworth (Against the Grain); is the inventive response to a challenging brief and an adventurous client, resulting in a sustainably designed full-wall rotating library.

bild

Freccia

Magazines are the most popular “books” in today houses and offices. They represent the society, its mobility, and the continual research of actuality. Today’s reading materiel by their informative quality become books that we don’t want to separate from. Freccia represents an answer to the necessity to find a place to store and move magazines.

Aram Lello

Fold Out-Fold up

The idea is that you fold them out to cover anything shameful you might have behind. So if you have an embarrassing book case with lots of Mills and Boon or the Twilight books or something, you fold out my book shelf cover and put it in front.

Isabel Greenberg

A bookish corner: Bookshelf in the Chicago Tribune

Be it a hammock on a balcony, a pile of pillows squeezed into the corner of a landing or a recliner beside a fireplace in an oak-paneled library, creating an area devoted to reading is a deeply personal endeavor to be filled with those things that bring out your best literary self... "At a time when there are so many other...things yelping for our attention, a temple to reading appears more important than ever," said Alex Johnson, author of "Bookshelf" (Thames and Hudson), a very cool compilation of creatively designed bookshelves, due out in May.

Chicago Tribune

Yule

Wooden bookshelf thought for those who need to add new shelves but have no more free space along the walls. It can be placed everywere in the room and fixed to the ceiling. Yule optimizes the room at the top and allows you to walk above.
Claudia Bignoli

Caterpillar bookshelf

Inspired by the caterpillar character from Alice in Wonderland. CDM designed and built this bookcase. The soft and organic nature of the caterpillar is offset by the hard, unfinished, industrial look of the building materials. Building materials include unfinished particle board, threaded rod, washers and nuts. Bookcase stands 58" tall and 44" wide and 14" deep. Chris DeMartino

Bookshelf D

A bookcase in dove shape
Jang Wooseok

Tintin and the bookshelves

King Ottokar’s Scepter by Hergé was originally published in France in the late 1930s. But my edition, which smells a bit musty, was published in the U.S. by Golden Press in 1959. What I like about this comic strip tale is that books and bookcases are seen throughout the story.

A Pretty Book

Maroma

Inspired by a traditional Mexican toy, this playful movement is quite surprising, permitting the user to stack more than one Maroma in several different configurations.

Daniel Romero

Bookmobile

Antique Automobile Club

Level

This bookshelf consists of a number of irregularly spaced rods that support several shelves at different heights. Lina has drawn her inspiration from builders’ scaffolding and the distinctive appearance of apartment block architecture. The distance between the shelves is adapted to the different sizes of paperbacks, hardback books and magazines that can be placed between the rods. The bookshelf comes in two heights and three widths. It is finished in a choice of eight standard colours and four stains (black, brown, white and red-brown). The legs are fitted with adjustable feet. Use Level as a room divider or place it against a wall in the living room at home, the office or the library, etc. Lina Nordqvist


Lixil - bath and books

LIXIL will propose new possibilities of the living environment and the living area with its unique technology to control the water and air. Focusing on water, the exhibition will showcase a striking and symbolic presentation of fine creamy foam leading to bliss. This innovative foam will propose the “future functions and interiors of the home”. Lixil Milano

Bibliomulas

Llevanda la animacion de la lectura a las comunidades rurales

Proyecto Bibliomulas and the BBC

Modular shelving system

This easy-to-assemble modular display system is made of fifty handcrafted bamboo pieces and polyamide plastic joinery. Simply snap the bamboo sections together with the accompanying pegs to create a wide variety of configurations. Combine multiple sets to expand the system. Made by Bambica.

Andrew Gancikov and John Fitzpatrick

WWW

“www” is an interpretation of the ‘shelf’ archetype. Between form and function, between space and dimension, between a not-yet and a not-anymore it creates concrete opportunities and specific associations.

Through its parts it is not only a modular system, but also a type of installation in an ever changing space. In today’s Western society, digital communication, networking and the Web 2.0 are parts of our daily life. The constant ‘real time’ connection is changing us, our environment and the perception of it. On the threshold of the post-digital society the limits of space and time are abolished. The physical dematerialization is a true consequence. The Bauhaus industrial product has become obsolete. Hybrid objects are becoming media, surfaces transform into spaces and spaces turn into unsharp gradients.

In an accelerated era full of freedom of forms and the change as a status quo I am creating an object which itself has no definite state and which is capable of interacting with the user and his environment.

Viktormatic

Bookmobile

The LA Public Library’s 1928 bookmobile for the sick.