Io

A bookcase that gives an organic three-dimensional effect in space. It achieves a sculptural expression through simple means and in an unbound way it breaks with the ordinary conceptions of the horizontal and vertical bookcase.
Jakob Jørgensen

Robi rolling Library

Robi is a mobile public library in a truck with an individual type mounting for people in small villages around the district town. Inside, special acrylic shelves have illuminated LED edges that can light in the dark. When you read a book you let one's mind wander - the back of the truck is like a fantasy with no right angles and lines become more imaginative. The shelves start as parallel, then go up and down. It’s like a mystery of an history.
Claudia Miller

The Poet's Book Hanger

Consists of several ‘book sticks' which can be used both as bookmarks and as a means of hanging the books on the wall. The book sticks can be wedged in between two mouldings mounted on the wall. In addition to the book sticks, Poet's Book Hanger features a book shelf, which is similarly mounted by means of the two mouldings. Jakob Jørgensen

Readings demo: Bookshelf by Alex Johnson

Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile

From school prizes to writing his own novels, the author reflects on his lifelong bibliomania and explains why, despite e-readers and Amazon, he believes the physical book and bookshops will survive.
The Guardian

Hidden bookcase

This hidden bookcase smoothly slides on a floor-based rail (included) and conceals any room in your office or home.
Opulent Items

As if from nowhere

As if from nowhere… is an independently functioning bookcase which houses four dining chairs and two tables that when placed together become a dining table. It is intended for small living spaces or for those who wish to cater to the unexpected guest. Orla Reynolds

Will your children inherit your e-books?

"When I think of sorting through the boxes of my grandmother's books — even the ones we couldn't keep, or didn't want — and what we found there, I am grateful not to have been handed her Amazon password instead. Among all the gifts of the electronic age, one of the most paradoxical might be to illuminate something we are beginning to trade away: the particular history, visible and invisible, that can be passed down through the vessel of an old book, inscribed by the hands and the minds of readers who are gone." npr

Tardis bookcase

Thingiverse

Shelving the body

“Shelving the Body” aims to disrupt our habitual relationships with furniture and reassess the idea of the ‘user’. This subversion, initiated through a series of experimentation and trials, approaches the typology of the shelf with a physical consideration for the figure. At times, the outcomes often reduce the role of the figure to that of a ‘shelved object’, exploring the idea of mutual dependency, challenging its user, or simply taking inspiration from the figure’s presence.

Darragh Casey’s current series ‘Shelf Portraits’, created and photographed in Cork, Ireland, ‘shelves’ 3 generations of the Casey family. It focuses on the traditional role of the shelf as a device to display, portraying people significant to the artist alongside objects relevant to their own lives and personalities.

Darragh Casey Design

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