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Henrique Steyer

Book van

Mobile bookshop

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Why hotels need bookshelves

Some hotels are giving the humble book another look, as they search for ways to persuade guests, particularly younger ones, to spend more time in their lobbies and bars. They are increasingly stocking books in a central location, designating book suites or playing host to author readings. While the trend began at boutique hotels like the Library Hotel in New York, the Heathman Hotel in Portland, Ore., and the Study at Yale in New Haven, it is expanding to chain hotels. 

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OpenBook

The OpenBook is a seat and a library that celebrates the printed form. Its design represents an evolution from TILT’s original Library Chair which itself was designed for a Grade II listed building where shelving for books could not be installed so instead the books were incorporated into the chair design. It is a comfortable reading space for those wanting a quieter moment, while also a showcase for books and magazines of any size and shape. At the same time the chair was to be open, exposing the user to others within the space allowing for serendipitous interaction. The OpenBook Chair has a fully upholstered interior, including an upholstered side panel, offering additional comfort and sound insulation. Studio Tilt

Rain bookshelf

Artem Zigert

Level

The shelf is divided in two parts enabling communication between these. So that the product becomes a mutable object. This adapts and changes its shape depending on the content in it. By putting books in a category, that becomes bigger allowing to store more books. Through this function, the product allows us to use different sections as comparators. We know, for example, who reads more books. Or what kind of books are the ones that you read more as it always displays the amount of books in each.

Behind the product lies a message that comes once the user has used the shelf. Through its function, the object aims to bring users to the three main socializing agents; individuals, institutions and information. When someone uses the shelf to see who reads more books, it creates a relationship between people who, even in person or not, becomes a link between individuals. Something similar happens when splitting our books by type or theme. The shelf reveals the institution that we’re closer. And, always, refers to information because it represents an indication of the level of information consumed.

Roger Moliné

Chevron

A stacking, modular shelf made from four pieces of precision milled Birch-ply. The shelves can be used as a single unit for magazines, books and files, or stacked in several configurations. The maximum spine length for stacking is 117mm.

Henry Wilson

Tab

A bookcase with four sliding tabs (vertical panels) which allows the user to organize books in various ways. By repositioning tabs, zones for different types of books can be created. At the same time, it will naturally create various looks depending on the placement you choose.
EJ

Penguin book covers wallpaper

The PENGUIN LIBRARY wallpaper is a collage of front covers of those iconic early paperbacks from this famous publishing house and includes Ariel, the very first Penguin paperback published in 1935. The book covers were chosen for their diversity of colour and to illustrate the breadth of Penguin’s publishing backlist. Great care was taken in the design to truly represent the original paperbacks in all their, sometimes well-read and a little worn, glory. The resulting PENGUIN LIBRARY wallpaper is a glorious colourful ‘conversational piece’ which we hope will be received with as much affection as the books themselves.
Osborne & Little

Prime Minister David Cameron on bookshelves

Daily Mail

Fusillo

An artisanal wooden bookshelf made of modular elements. All the modules are designed to rotate around a central axis providing support for the books. The bottom part can be used as an hanging device. Multiple shelves can be endlessly combined to customise your space.Fusillo comes in 3 versions: solid oak, glossy and opaque white lacquered MDF.
Andviceversa

Hotel libraries

"A decent library can mark a hotel out from its competitors, give it a nicely intellectual feel, and supply guests with another reason to stay in and buy a drink. It is perhaps a shame when hotels decide that a task as fun and indeed personal as choosing their libraries' contents should not be done in-house by someone familiar with the locale. But swankier operations may be nervous about choosing inappropriately and tainting their brand, and anyway they may not have a bookworm on staff. Thus it becomes sensible to invest a bit of money—up to $30,000 in some cases—to ensure a bit of professional nous is applied to the selection. Those hotels that use the Ultimate Library's services do not necessarily let Mr Blackwell’s team get on with the job unimpeded. “With one hotel,” he says, “we had to come up with 150 books and justify each one.” The Economist

Extend

 

A bookend on which books can be placed in the air as an extension of a desk. It can be fixed to a tabletop by a clamp and the length can be adjusted as you like. It is formed by bending 2 mm steel plate in order to make it strong enough to hold books.
Photos by Yasuko Furukawa

Yoy

Bookshelf slide

 

Panorama House by Moonhoon

Bloom

"We commissioned Raw-Edges to design a bespoke bookcase to house one selected work of fiction from each of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists from the last 3 decades. Throughout 2013, the British Council and Granta are collaborating on an international showcase of contemporary British novelists and the book loom will travel the world housing the collection of literature."
British Council

Piston bookshelf

Bookshelf made with suzuki motorcycle pistons, spanish cedar, aluminum.

Flat Earth Rebirth

Weaves - Audziu

Designed using Lithuanian ethnic textile ornaments. The user can, depending on his needs, easily change combinations of segments and function zones of the shelf, allowing him to weave his desired composition. Rapolas Grazys

Bookshelf'

We usually tilt the last book on the shelf in order to prevent the books from falling. Bookshelf' has its own radian which can keep the books on the shelf to one side without the additional rectification.

A'postrophe Design

Telefonzellen

Im Handy-Zeitalter scheint der endgültige Tod der Telefonzellen besiegelt. Das Magdeburger Kulturzentrum "Moritzhof" fand eine alternative Verwendung dafür - und richtete diese "Bücherzelle" ein. Statt des Telefonbuchs beherbergt sie nun andere Bücher wie Romane, Nachschlagewerke und Tagebücher und fungiert als Tauschbücherei.
SpiegelOnline

World Book Day: bedtime reading still going strong

Reading remains an integral part of the night time routine, with 7 in 10 children encouraged to enjoy a book before going to sleep, research from Sainsbury’s has found. Celebrating the nation’s week of reading, the poll of 2,000 parents revealed that the vast majority will make time to regularly read to their children (71%). In fact, more than 10 million families will sit down for story-time every day.

Interestingly it isn’t only bedtime when children are enjoying reading, the results show that parents recognise the value of spare time between activities, with 67% being encouraged to catch up on their favourite books during long car journeys, in sports centres, and on public transport.