"My own bookshelves are conventionally functional, unlike many of the bookshelves pictured in Mr. Johnson's paean to the physicality of the bound and printed word. Many of the featured bookshelves are more like sculpture than furniture, but they nonetheless store books. If bookshelves eventually go the way of spinning wheels and washboards, Mr. Johnson's book will remind our descendants of the whimsy and glory of making theater out of book storage"
Wall Street Journal
Ab 2012 wird es erstmals eine kleine Serie des neu aufgelegten Buchtisches geben. Dieser ist von nun an vorerst nur in schwarz verfügbar! Für alle, die ihre Bücher lieben und ihnen ein schönes Plätzchen geben wollen, ist dies das geeignete Produkt. Ob neben dem Bett, dem Sofa oder am Sessel.
Studio Voigt Dietrich
The idea is to create a 'low air-resistance' piece of furniture. The inspiration comes from aeronautics (Aliante is the italian word for glider) and the shape of the shelves reminds the wings of the aircraft. The winglets at the end of the shelves also create the bookends. The overall dimensions of the bookshelf are quite big (2,2 mt high and 2,7 mt wide) despite its very light and slim structure.
Davide Anzalone
The UnWaste bookcase, a collaboration between architect Ben Milbourne (Bild Architecture), eco-designer Leyla Acaroglu (Eco Innovators) and specialist furniture designer David Waterworth (Against the Grain); is the inventive response to a challenging brief and an adventurous client, resulting in a sustainably designed full-wall rotating library.
bild
Magazines are the most popular “books” in today houses and offices. They represent the society, its mobility, and the continual research of actuality. Today’s reading materiel by their informative quality become books that we don’t want to separate from. Freccia represents an answer to the necessity to find a place to store and move magazines.
Aram Lello
The idea is that you fold them out to cover anything shameful you might have behind. So if you have an embarrassing book case with lots of Mills and Boon or the Twilight books or something, you fold out my book shelf cover and put it in front.
Isabel Greenberg
Be it a hammock on a balcony, a pile of pillows squeezed into the corner of a landing or a recliner beside a fireplace in an oak-paneled library, creating an area devoted to reading is a deeply personal endeavor to be filled with those things that bring out your best literary self... "At a time when there are so many other...things yelping for our attention, a temple to reading appears more important than ever," said Alex Johnson, author of "Bookshelf" (Thames and Hudson), a very cool compilation of creatively designed bookshelves, due out in May.
Chicago Tribune
Wooden bookshelf thought for those who need to add new shelves but have no more free space along the walls. It can be placed everywere in the room and fixed to the ceiling. Yule optimizes the room at the top and allows you to walk above.
Claudia Bignoli
Inspired by the caterpillar character from Alice in Wonderland. CDM designed and built this bookcase. The soft and organic nature of the caterpillar is offset by the hard, unfinished, industrial look of the building materials. Building materials include unfinished particle board, threaded rod, washers and nuts. Bookcase stands 58" tall and 44" wide and 14" deep. Chris DeMartino
King Ottokar’s Scepter by Hergé was originally published in France in the late 1930s. But my edition, which smells a bit musty, was published in the U.S. by Golden Press in 1959. What I like about this comic strip tale is that books and bookcases are seen throughout the story.
A Pretty Book
Inspired by a traditional Mexican toy, this playful movement is quite surprising, permitting the user to stack more than one Maroma in several different configurations.
Daniel Romero
This bookshelf consists of a number of irregularly spaced rods that support several shelves at different heights. Lina has drawn her inspiration from builders’ scaffolding and the distinctive appearance of apartment block architecture. The distance between the shelves is adapted to the different sizes of paperbacks, hardback books and magazines that can be placed between the rods. The bookshelf comes in two heights and three widths. It is finished in a choice of eight standard colours and four stains (black, brown, white and red-brown). The legs are fitted with adjustable feet. Use Level as a room divider or place it against a wall in the living room at home, the office or the library, etc. Lina Nordqvist
This easy-to-assemble modular display system is made of fifty handcrafted bamboo pieces and polyamide plastic joinery. Simply snap the bamboo sections together with the accompanying pegs to create a wide variety of configurations. Combine multiple sets to expand the system. Made by Bambica.
Andrew Gancikov and John Fitzpatrick
“www” is an interpretation of the ‘shelf’ archetype. Between form and function, between space and dimension, between a not-yet and a not-anymore it creates concrete opportunities and specific associations.
Through its parts it is not only a modular system, but also a type of installation in an ever changing space. In today’s Western society, digital communication, networking and the Web 2.0 are parts of our daily life. The constant ‘real time’ connection is changing us, our environment and the perception of it. On the threshold of the post-digital society the limits of space and time are abolished. The physical dematerialization is a true consequence. The Bauhaus industrial product has become obsolete. Hybrid objects are becoming media, surfaces transform into spaces and spaces turn into unsharp gradients.
In an accelerated era full of freedom of forms and the change as a status quo I am creating an object which itself has no definite state and which is capable of interacting with the user and his environment.
Viktormatic
