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.
A2
Yes, but does YOUR office have an orange refrigerator full of Penguin Classics?
The Penguin Press
Over the last 20 years we have experienced a revolution in the way we store our knowledge. Yet while we can now shrink an entire personal library to an electronic device the size and weight of a single paperback, there has also been an explosion in the creativity behind the design of that most basic household item, the bookshelf. Bookshelves today are no longer just somewhere to store books. They are modern art, engineering experiments and, of course, status symbols.
Read more at the Thames & Hudson blog
We told our architect at our very first meeting that one of the most important elements was to integrate our books into the heart and soul of our home. He came up with a brilliant solution which we had never seen before, to build the shelves right into staircases (set into the wall) from top to bottom of house. So essentially "book spines" line the spine of our home.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Architectural Interventions
Traliccio is a library wall in wood and metal. The shelves have been dematerialized and transformed to the point that they remain a thin bent rod that, thanks to its inclination, can accommodate books of different sizes. The shelves can be easily moved either vertically, by utilizing the teeth found on the back of the two supporting columns of wood, or horizontally so as to leave the user maximum freedom of composition. Tralaccio is enriched with some accessories that complement its use, such as a top sheet and bookends.
4P1B
It started from a chat my girlfriend and I were having. A year and a father-son project later, the very originally named 'Face Shelving' is finally done.
The idea is that depending what you put in or on the shelves, you create different faces and expressions. Enjoy.
Alexi McCarthy
