Tuberack is a shelf/space divider assembled without screws or glue but strongly held together by rubber tubes. The tubes make a random pattern that can be used to display books or other items. Tuberack is made out of solid oak and comes in a flat package, easy to assemble.
Joeri Reynaer
Who said shelves shouldn't wobble!? Es is proud of its urge to move around, and still it works. Es is everything: clothes rack, key box, towel rack, wine store, file or book shelf, storage cabinet or newspaper stand — Es is simply wonderful! Es, for the joy of wobbling.
Nils Holger Moormann, Konstantin Grcic
Most of us can only aspire to Ikea, but Alex Johnson's Bookshelf takes a beguiling look at the possibilities available if your budget, your rooms and your library are big enough.
The Guardian
Stacked chairs require space. Take a shelve makes this space functional as bookshelves or a small table. This prototype is made out of birch plywood.
Joeri Reynaert
Why not bring the opportunity of beautiful handcrafted, fair trade materials and strong colours into our offices? We started to work with Afroart with the intention to let their fabrics be a part of the contract market. With their collection Mira Maya, we wanted to build a construction that would let the fabric be the thing on show. In the end, it became two different types of fabric furniture: a screen – Plisado Horizon – and a storage unit in two different sizes – Plisado Arriba.
Note Design Studio
Rather than being lined up with their spines facing outward, the books are hung along flat plywood spindles that fit between a wooden frame. The spines can be used as a table surface, and the spindles can be individually removed and used as bookmarks.
SightUnseen
Raw-Edges
Il design contemporaneo ha deciso che il libro, nella libreria, non deve stare più in verticale. Ebbene, qui se ne assecondano tutte le possibili inclinazioni e dimensioni in un elemento esile. Lo scaffale cambia progressivamente angolo di rotazione come fanno i semi della spiga di grano giunta a maturazione. I bordi colorati visualizzano efficacemente questo sofisticato gioco grafico, che si riaggancia alle ricerche della Op Art degli anni ’60 e ’70, adattate a una funzionalità rigorosissi.
Gianluca Sgalippa
Commissioned for the exhibition Vera Chapter One, this collection of objects using leather straps as support and structural elements; using the language and techniques of horse saddlery as a starting point.
Tomas Alonso
A shelving system that suspends from a single point. The shelves are designed to occupy a space normally reserved for a framed picture or painting, and they act so as to frame compositions of everyday objects. The cable tension allow the shelves to support heavy objects while the silicone pads create a self-securing system that grips the wall as the shelf becomes loaded. This also means that the shelf does not tilt to one side if heavy objects are placed unevenly.
BAHBAK HASHEMI-NEZHAD
A modular shelf made of seven identical boxes of different sizes. The boxes are combined with seven natural leather ropes of different lengths which allows them to hang from a single nail on the wall.
Be a Malevich
Even as they are rendered obsolete by the ubiquity of smartphones, I’m interested in pay phones because they are both anachronistic and quotidian. Relics, they’re dead technology perched on the edge of obsolescence, a skeuomorph hearkening back to a lost shared public space we might no longer have any use for... But they can also be a place of opportunity, something to reprogram and somewhere to come together and share a good book with your neighbors.
John Locke
'As it turns out, for a great deal of their history, shelves were much more haphazard than they are today. Before they even displayed books, they supported piles of scrolls. In the first century BC, Atticus loaned Cicero two assistants to build shelves and to tack titles onto his collection. “Your men have made my library gay with their carpentry work,” Cicero reported. “Nothing could look neater than those shelves.”'
The Paris Review
Image: Ezra the scribe,'Codex Amiatinus'
Street is a collection of stackable units for storage and display of magazines, books and plants in public and private spaces. The system consists of four parts, a frame and a house, high and low unit. The units can be combined in different ways, for example as a shelf or a room divider. Only the imagination sets the limits.
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