Drop

The tilted angle of the top shelf provides a variety of options for storing books – they can be opened to display particular pages, for example, draped over the angled top or stacked on a slant.
nendo

Bookworm rug

Using 100% woven polyester, these premium quality area rugs boast an exceptionally soft touch and high durability. Available in three versatile sizes (2' x 3', 3' x 5', 4' x 6') they are the perfect accent to any room in your home, featuring thousands of designs from your favorite artists on a subtle chevron pattern. Machine washable; non-skid pad not included.
Cassia Beck

War of Words: 21st century conflict book press

5 volume extendable little library exploring modern conflict in contemporary literature, consisting of:
– Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds
– Owen Sheers’ Pink Mist
– Cara Hoffman’s Be Safe I Love You
– Dan O’Brien’s War Reporter
– Jon Ronson’s The Men Who Stare At Goats
Laminated oak end panels edged in white (300mm x 200mm).
Threaded rods 300mm long with zinc-plated washers and wing nuts.
The Book Barge

Whale bookshelf

Justin Southey

NearSt

We’re on a mission to get all of us back into our high street shops. We believe finding and buying something from a real shop nearby should be faster and easier than ordering it online. You can already shop over 100,000 products from bookshops all across London on NearSt, and we’re rapidly adding more types of shops.
NearSt

Forest

A bookshelf built of a forest of supports of different widths and depths. All of the supports have a standard 9cm2 cross-section, so the wider supports are shallower in depth, and vice versa. As a result, the bookshelf is like a forest full of trees at different stages of growth, in which books and objects can wander like animals between the trees, seeking shelter in different places and directions.
nendo 

Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookshop

A tunnel of books in the waterside bookshop in Zhen Yuan where bookshelves are reflected by the floor below, designed to look like water. The walls are a homage to the local arched bridges.
XL-Muse

Animal bookshelves

Zhongshu Book Store
XL-Muse

Cliff

Can be used in any orientation and freely combined to create a full variety of forms. The system includes four horizontal and four vertical pieces, of which the former can be used as shelves and the latter as bookends. The space between the shelves seems random, but was generated by calculations designed to maximise usable space.
nendo

Cheft seat-shelf

 

Inspired by Persian architectural patterns, The CHEFT Seat-Shelf is a combination of three pieces, each made from several interlocking elements which slide in and out of each other through specifically designed grooves, No nails, glue or screws are needed for assembly
Size: 170 cm X 148 cm x 30 cm
Material: MDF, Walnut laminate
Studio Pousti

Library in the shape of an eye: Tianjin Binhai Library

An oval opening, punctured through the building is propped open by the Eye, a mirrored sphere with an auditorium, which takes the main stage within the atrium and enlarges the perceived space within. Terraced bookshelves which echo the form of the sphere create an interior, topographical, landscape whose contours reach out and wrap around the façade. In this way, the stepped bookshelves within are represented on the outside, with each level doubling up as a louvre.

“The Eye is the centre of the library. It ‘hollows out’ the building and creates, out of bookshelves, an environment to sit, to read, to hang out, to climb and to access, to create an organic social space,” explains MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas. “In its heart is the auditorium which mirrors the environment, giving a 360 degree panorama of the space inside; a truly reflective and pensive environment.”
MVRDV

Shelfie

• Explore bookshelves to dig up your next read.
• Digitize your library by taking a Shelfie.
• Create a profile and share your collection.
• Rediscover your books, read and listen anywhere

Shelfie

Hidden library: Albion Barn

Hidden library in Oxfordshire barn conversion. The Albion Barn project includes offices wrapped around a central, hidden library with four secret doors which, when opened, connect the different areas. When the doors are closed, the room is lined on all four sides by bookshelves.
Studio Seilern

Albion Barn from Christina Seilern on Vimeo.
Via dezeen

Sundial bookshelf

The shelves of this bookshelf are arrayed at slightly different angles, like the shadows cast by a sundial, so that the books placed on them and the look of the bookshelf itself are also always changing.
nendo

Liber

Tonelli Design

Cheft

Inspired by Persian architectural patterns, the CHEFT Bookshelf is made of twelve individual interlocking elements which slide in and out of each other through specifically designed grooves, No nails, glue or screws are needed for assembly, it takes about 10 minutes to assemble the bookshelf
Size: 193 cm X 193 cm x 28 cm
Material: Poplar wood
Studio Pousti

Aksel

Long and lean or comely and compact. Available in two sizes, and in white polyurethane lacquer finish. Engineered wood construction.
urbn.furniture

Fa.B. fabric bookcase

Outside the rationale of any shelving system, Fa.B. offers the user renewable storage space. A single or more modular fabric units can be added to the wooden stand in a few minutes. The durable fabric along with the wide open wooden sides of Fa.B. gives us the opportunity to use as little raw materials and natural resources as possible, according to the dematerialization approach that our times require.
dede

Frames 2.0

A freestanding bookcase and can also be used as a room divider.The bookcase is made up of 12 wooden frames. The ‘boards’ have different widths and are open in the middle. The open frames deliver an exciting game of lines. Depending on where you’re standing some of the shelves appear to float.
Gerard de Hoop

Tilta bookcase

Natural oak bookcase, made of three different modules with 2, 4 or 6 shelves.
Paolo Cappello

Book City

For the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño 2013, leading MDF company Masisa invited IHC to design a pavilion for Casa Bosques Bookstore demonstrating the qualities of their materials and the relationship that the resulting objects have on the human environment. The proposal aims to express an allegory between the object, the interior and the city. The work was exhibited at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City in collaboration with Savvy Studio.
Isauro Huizar

Superman bookshelf

Burak Doğan

Indonesian horse library

Ridwan Sururi and Luna, one of his horses who help to run Kudapustaka, a small mobile library in Serang.
On Instagram
You can read more about animal libraries and other unusual libraries in Improbable Libraries. 

Perfume Bottle Bookcase

Not just a bookcase, but an object that lends itself to personal usage interpretations. Frame and the shelves are made of matt painted metal available in the following colours: black, white, saffron yellow, red, blue, green, mint green, anthracite grey, dove grey, brown and powder pink.
Gino Carollo for Panik

Dickens book stand

Made from iron. Painted 'antique' finish.
Oka

Baileys bottle bookcase

My bad. Turns out the bookcase is shaped like a BAILEYS BOTTLE, not a suppository. My apologies. #BaileysPrize pic.twitter.com/wDBx69lhFC

— Philip Ardagh (@PhilipArdagh) June 8, 2016

La Bibliothèque de la Cité

Bookshelf mural in Lyon.
Created by Cité Création.
Photo by Vyshemirsky.

Is it quicker to build a shed or a bookcase?

Exeter Express and Echo

Arte Utilitario: Beso, amanecer, and burbuja

Un los últimos años he desarrollado "Arte Utilitario" a través de Esculturas & organizadores. El "Arte Utilitario" complementa su expresión de arte con la funcionalidad, dando posibilidades de ser intervenida por el usuario e integrada en su quehacer en un contexto dinámico de permanente transformación.
Antonio Yachan

Book stacking in Japan

With bookstores in Japan overflowing with manga, novels and non-fiction, it takes a lot to stand out and get noticed. However, with the advent of the three styles of book stacking, it’s impossible for passersby not to stop and take a gander at these literary works.
Rocket News 24

Shape-A-Shelf

Bookshelves need an update. They need to be more flexible in their use and accommodate all sorts of things. So how to make a bookshelf more flexible? Make it flexible! Literally! No more bookends needed! Shape it like one and forget about them! Flexible soft shelf made out of 100% recycled PET.
shapeableshelf.com (and launching on Kickstarter on August 1)

Chiave de Volta

The hint of a curve not only gives the structure an attractive lightweight look but encapsulates the underlying design idea as well as its purpose: the books lean neatly back against the sides of the shelves giving the structure stability.
967 Arch

Literature Skirt

Rooby Lane

LivreLit booktable: A bed for books

The LivreLit  

Chevron Pattern Suitcase Bookshelf

Kitschy-cool shelf in the shape of a vintage suitcase features vibrant pattern wallpaper at the back for a decorative touch.  
- Mixed metals
- Wipe clean
- 47cm (W) x 44.5cm (H) x 20.5cm (D)
Urban Outfitters