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Book box

The book box has built in book stands which allows you to place different sized books randomly in the box without them falling over. The boxes can be stacked on top of each other or hung on the wall. You can flip the boxes and use it on the side, the legs then become additional shelves. Made entirely out of wood waste from factories in Denmark, with no screws, bolts or anything else.
Dimensions: W: 35cm, H: 47cm, D: 35cm
Amy Hunting

Clorophilla

Small library roof. Available in all leaves of the known universe.
Carmelo Giacomo Calanni Rindina

Public bookcase

A Bookcase, set in a public setting (sort of a park in this case) accessible at all time for all. No rules. A person may choose a book, take it home to read and bring it back... or keep it... or exchange it for one of their own books.

The first Public Bookcase was presented 2003.

All of them are organised and taken care for by a citizen initiative - Bürgerstiftung Bonn. Expenses are mostly met with the help of donations and volunteers.

Since October 2005 there is a second one at the Rhine riverside.
2006 - a small pavilion is turned into an open book stop following the same concept.
November 2008 - a third Open Bookcase
Just a week later - a fourth Open Bookcase
11. September 2009 - the newest (fifth!) Open Bookcase
Location: Bonn, Germany
Mol Mira-Guerrero

Duo

Ana Linares

This is not a bookshelf

It’s not an oddly painted bookshelf made of scrap lumber. It’s not.
Lewis Wadsworth

Foldaway bookshop

Campaign created the bespoke interior and graphics for the Foldaway Bookshop. We built the walls, shelving and sales counter entirely from cardboard which will be recycled at the end of the Festival. Stocked by RIBA Bookshops, Foldaway Bookshop is a specialist architecture bookshop.
Campaign

Book bike

Everyone has the right to build and cherish a private library.

With this in mind, we present The Book Bike: a custom-built tricycle stocked with 200 lbs of free books. Since July of 2008, The Book Bike has been responsible for placing over 3,000 new and used books into peoples’ hands. In spring and summer, you’ll find The Book Bike at Chicago public parks on the weekends; anyone who wants a book is invited to take something home to read.

Book Bike 2.0

In the summer of 2010, The Book Bike puts a spotlight on independent publishers: from hand-crafted zines to literary magazines and books, The Book Bike is a unique resource of the global independent literary scene.

With your help, all books on The Book Bike will be purchased from independent bookstores and indie press. Not only will the books continue to be given away from The Book Bike for anyone and everyone to enjoy, but every book and will have been paid for, thus directly supporting independent booksellers while keeping with the mission of free books for all.
The Book Bike

(lots more photos here)

Tide

Baita Design

Reservoir Dog bookshelf

Natural oak. A limited edition of 8 pieces.
India Mahdavi

Bookshelf planters

Plant Talk - Valerie Easton

Three two Bookshelf

Design by Jakob and MacFarlane. Bookshelf made entirely with metacrylate hand and welded. It consists of five stackable elements. Available in a choise of different colours.
T&T Architects

James Thurber interview

INTERVIEWER
You say that your drawings often don’t come out the way you intended?

THURBER
Well, once I did a drawing for The New Yorker of a naked woman on all fours up on top of a bookcase—a big bookcase. She’s up there near the ceiling, and in the room are her husband and two other women. The husband is saying to one of the women, obviously a guest, “This is the present Mrs. Harris. That’s my first wife up there.” Well, when I did the cartoon originally I meant the naked woman to be at the top of a flight of stairs, but I lost the sense of perspective and instead of getting in the stairs when I drew my line down, there she was stuck up there, naked, on a bookcase.
Incidentally, that cartoon really threw The New Yorker editor, Harold Ross. He approached any humorous piece of writing, or more particularly a drawing, not only grimly but realistically. He called me on the phone and asked if the woman up on the bookcase was supposed to be alive, stuffed, or dead. I said, “I don’t know, but I’ll let you know in a couple of hours.” After a while I called him back and told him I’d just talked to my taxidermist, who said you can’t stuff a woman, that my doctor had told me a dead woman couldn’t support herself on all fours. “So, Ross,” I said, “she must be alive.” “Well then,” he said, “what’s she doing up there naked in the home of her husband’s second wife?” I told him he had me there.
The Paris Review

TEEbooks

TEEbooks est le meuble de rangement pour vos LIVRES, vos DVD, vos CD, et votre TELEVISION; c'est l’étagère murale simple, légère, peu encombrante et économique pour décorer votre maison ou votre bureau.
TEEbooks

Etagère design ondulée

Avec la bibliothèque étagère ondulée, une vague de métal court le long du mur donnant une impression de légèreté et un mouvement de souplesse. Les ondulations sont conçues pour accueillir des objets aussi bien sur la partie supérieure qu'intérieure.
Absolument Design

Bibliothèque

Cette bibliotheque au design épuré met en scène les livres avec originalité et élégance. En chêne massif issu de forêts françaises gérées durablement, ou en métal laqué la bibliothèque s'utilise soit avec une petite entretoise (pour mettre des livres de poches, romans, CD ou DVD) soit avec une grande entretoise (pour des beaux livres ou des BD) mais pas les deux en même temps. Grand modèle : haut. 220 cm x long. 215 cm - Petit modèle: haut.100 cm x long. 185 cm. Grand+ Petit modèle : Longueur 3,25 m.
Absolument Design

Branch shelf

Size: W 50cms x H 23cms x D 19cms
Material: Powdercoated steel, hand cut vinyl wall stickers
Colour: Vermillion, various coloured wall stickers
Made in England
Susan Bradley

Ark

Situated by the V&A’s National Art Library, this freestanding wooden tower re-evaluates the concept of the ‘archive’. Its walls are made up of hundreds of shelves, holding thousands of second-hand books. Accessed via a spiral staircase, each floor includes a secluded reading chamber. Positioned to face inwards, the book spines form an exterior façade of monotonous white, whereas the interior view consists of a rich collage of colours and typographic textures.
Rintala Eggertsson Architects

Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Oslo and Bodø, Norway - Ark from Victoria and Albert Museum on Vimeo.

Sustainable shelving

Bookshelf made out of old National Geographic magazines
Sean Miller