There are two distinct inspirational tributaries for the piece – the Dutch cubistic modernism of the Mondrian and Rietveld, and the casework/base relationship in many Chinese and Japanese pieces from the past. The oversized base on which the case work sits refers to this. This is made of steel. The faces to the shelves are covered in steel fascia as well.
Rick Rubin
A library to bring the green indoors. White glazed steel and birch plywood. Designed by Luca Pegola.
Nautinox Living
“I thought about doing Britain or Russia but there weren’t so many sections, and the United States has lots of straight-lined divisions—great for holding books.”
Andrei Saltykov in Dwell
Shelves built from old skis, golf clubs and leather belts, and lumber. "If one approaches the project with a modest appreciation for aesthetics and home construction, a shelf can move beyond its lowly Sherpa status"
New York Times
An original design furniture inspired by the old books. Materials: wood. Top finishings: walnut wood. Dimensions: w 19.7" x d 35.46" x 59.10" h - w 500 x d 900 x h 1500 mm Fabio Vinella
Can be moved and recomposed without limit to host or to classify books, plants and objects. The bookshelf is composed of two types of modules, they fit together in all directions. Modules can also pile up vertically, giving to user the ability to carry his Bookcase without emptying it. The wheeled platform allows the set to move freely in space.
Mathieu Gabiot
A river of books overflowing into the physical pedestrian spaces and installed in the space allocated to cars, stealing precious space to the dense traffic in the area, in a symbolic gesture in which literature took control of the streets and became the conquerer of the public space, offering the citizens, a space (not as big as we would have liked) in which the traffic withdrew yielding ground to the modest power of the written word. luzinterruptus
Hernando Guanlao, known by his nickname Nanie, has set up an informal library outside his home in central Manila, to encourage his local community to share his joy of reading. The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want - even permanently. As Guanlao says: "The only rule is that there are no rules."
BBC
Will be released as first collection of huzidesign at TENTLONDON. The Lost in sofa for "ADULT" will go on the market later this year.
Daisuke Motogi
A wall-mounted cluster of squares and rectangles that provide space for books of various heights. This cabinet is suitable for shallow books, like poetry and literature. The shelves pictured are made from lacquered black MDF, but they can also be made with other woods and in other sizes. Dimensions example H 96 x W 116 x D 18 cm
Gerard de Hoop
‘Cross-Ropes’ is a storage function with an expression mix of a hard and soft, using locally grown natural materials - ash wood and linen rope. One rope is pulled all over the corpus and a tightening mechanism at the bottom of the furniture makes it possible to retighten the ropes over time.
Peter Knox, The Guardian
"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
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
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 5th “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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
"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
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 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
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 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
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
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
"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
“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
