Bookshelf in the shape of Venus

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Aviary (Library for the Birds of Massachusetts)

"I’m very interested in surrounding myself with the stuff that inspires me. I’m an artist who gets a lot from things, and in that way I’m very much a sculptor. I really love the world of stuff. I know a lot of artists who prefer to have very Spartan lives. Their inspiration is very much in their heads. They like clean, white, empty New York kinds of spaces. But I really like the surprising juxtapositions when you put things together on the bookshelf and when you start to collect things."

Mark Dion

Book pillow

Pude med print af bøger med sort bagside fra Louise Roe. Pudens aflange facon giver et sejt look i sofaen. Lavet af kraftigt bomuldskanvas. Monteringspude medfølger.
Mål: 40 x 70 cm
cahetu

Korean edition of Bookshelf book

We're delighted to announce that in addition to the English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Swedish editions of Bookshelf, there will soon be a Korean one. Here's the rather nice proposed cover.

Spool bookcase

Pink Stitches

B-OK

Marica Vizzuso

Sunflower chair

Sitting at the center of a blooming sunflower and being crowded by beloved books will definitely make reading something lingering in your mind all day. Designed by designer He Mu and Zhang Qian from Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Sunflower Chair has won “Redtory Design Award” for the 5^th “Design for Sitting” Grand Prix. Experts in the jury all agreed that the chair satisfied the very thing intention of sitting – reading, which meets the theme “sitting and other behaviors” quite well.
Redtory

Bookshelf is on holiday

The Bookshelf staff are having a nice sit down and a rest for a bit. We'll resume transmission at the end of the month.

Abstraction Active Loft

Smoothcore

Bibliotheque Severin

Compacte et peu profonde, la Bibliothèque Séverin peut se glisser dans une alcôve ou un couloir, contre un mur du salon, ou peut s'élever au centre de la pièce et servir ainsi de séparateur d'espace. Spécialement conçue pour accueillir les livres de poche, CD et DVD, elle est à la fois pratique et élégante, et d'une grande contenance.

Alex de Rouvray

Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland

The Bookless Library

"This technology cannot simply substitute for the great libraries of the present. After all, libraries are not just repositories of books. They are communities, sources of expertise, and homes to lovingly compiled collections that amount to far more than the sum of their individual printed parts. Their physical spaces, especially in grand temples of learning like the NYPL, subtly influence the way that reading and writing takes place in them. And yet it is foolish to think that libraries can remain the same with the new technology on the scene."

The New Republic

Thomas Jefferson's Revolving Bookcase

Jefferson needed to reference multiple sources, but found finding, opening and closing books cumbersome and time-wasting. So, he invented this revolving book stand which allowed him to quickly and easily view five books with the spin of the wrist. The footprint, when closed is 13 inches (33 cm) square. It stands15 inches (38 cm) high. The four sides open and their inclination can be adjusted to any angle between 0 to 50 degrees. The top leaf inclination is 60 degrees.
Johnson Artisan on Etsy

Book cage

Memento Designs

One in ten UK adults now has an e-reader

"Our research reveals that in just a few short years, new technology has fundamentally changed the way that we communicate. Talking face to face or on the phone are no longer the most common ways for us to interact with each other. In their place, newer forms of communications are emerging which don't require us to talk to each other especially among younger age groups. This trend is set to continue as technology advances and we move further into the digital age." James Thickett, Ofcom's Director of Research.
Ofcome: The Communications Market Report

Meo

Olivier Desrochers

Bed bookcase

Melander Architects

Modular Rotating Bookcase

Designed as a student project for 'client' Scott. Scott had a particular interest in Japanese Manga comics. The bookcase was designed to accommodate the comics which are approximately the size of DVD cases. Since these are small the decision was made to accommodate more comics by making the bookcase two-sided. Each box has a furniture turntable on the bottom and a corresponding groove on the top. The design allows multiple boxes of varying sizes to be stacked on top of each other in any combination. The opposite side is then accessed by simply spinning the boxes around. The central divider can be specified as any shape or pattern. In Scott's case, he had a particular interest in spider web's as a pattern. This was designed and laser cut from acrylic before fitting into the boxes. The larger boxes can be left open to allow for larger books or simple shelves can be fitted. Daniel Edwards

Philadelphia mansion with fake bookcase leading to speakeasy

aMAZEme

An art project that unites literature, performance, installation, image and cinema. Created by Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, aMAZEme immerses the audience in a labyrinth of books.

The audience unexpectedly come into contact with the books installation, which stimulates their curiosity, knowledge and creativity. By participating in the installation, the audience discovers new textures, images and emotions. They become surrounded- hypnotized – by words and thoughts, designs and patterns. There appear to be secrets hidden in the installation’s walls; walls of up to 2.5 metres high, built from thousands of books, forming a large Maze of more than 500 square metres. The construction of the labyrinth and the public's participation will be filmed by video cameras and sent to the “aMAZEme" website as well as to social media sites. Touch screens will be installed to look up information and to screen content, which will also be shown in monitors throughout the installation.

The public will be able to navigate through this hypnotic and surprising “book labyrinth” or attend daily performances from literary figures.

London Festival

Old library posters

Retro Library Posters on Flickr

Book forest

The first public bookcase in Berlin. The project adopts the idea of putting up a bookcase in a public space, in which people could release their used books to be picked up by others. This way of free dissemination, called ‚bookcrossing’, is by now a worldwide movement organised in a central database (www.bookcrossing.com). Registration of books enables following their travels through the world and communication about the books.

Baufachfrau

Tralliccio invisible bookshelf

4P1B

The Bedside Console

A nightstand that combines a small bookshelf and drawer for bedside use. Turned leg at the base can be detached for use with a low platform bed.

Pelle Designs

Bookyard

MASSIMO BARTOLINI from TRACKGent on Vimeo.

An open-air library in the vineyard at St Peter’s Abbey, an oasis of greenery and tranquillity in the centre of Ghent. This vineyard originated in the Middle Ages and Ghent’s Guild of Wine-Measurers breathed new life into it in the 1970s. Visitors can borrow, buy or exchange secondhand books here in the symbolic shadow of the Book Tower. Bartolini installs the bookcases in line with the vines, leaning against and parallel to the slope of the garden. According to Bartolini, books too can broaden the mind, just like good wine.
Massimo Bartolini

 

Smiling bookcase

 

A unique and innovative piece of furniture, designed with a strong representative identity. It is developed based on the concept of designing specifically for a single person household by using recycled materials for environment. People might feel lonely when they are at home alone. Being surrounded by ''Smiling'' furniture would promote an atmosphere of joy and would intensify people's feelings of happiness.

Han's Designs

Ammonite

"I designed this shelf inspired by the composition principles of fractal forms. A patina with a gradation of steel colours lends itself to the spiral composition of the object, bestowing it with a certain lightness in spite of its actual weight. The wealth of this project rests upon the interaction between the content and the receptacle."
 Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance

Paradero ParaLibros ParaParques (PPP)

Los PPP son pequeñas bibliotecas públicas que desde los parques ofrecen a la comunidad la oportunidad de leer y llevar libros en préstamo de manera gratuita para propiciar un acercamiento libre y espontáneo a la lectura.
Fundalectura

The Bookshop Band

"A shop with books in" - a song inspired by bookshops, written for Independent Booksellers' Week 2012 by The Bookshop Band from The Bookshop Band on Vimeo.

The Bookshop Band write songs about books and play them in bookshops. They started as a collaboration between a group of musicians in Bath and their local independent bookshop, Mr B's Emporium. Now they are about to go on tour, sponsored by Vintage Books and Independent Booksellers Week, around other bookshops and lit fests. The Bookshop Band

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