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Shelfies

A pleasant collection of readers' shelves at The Guardian.

Library chair

Bespoke commission to design and make a chair to accommodate books. Made of solid maple with veneered curved sides. Beeswax finish.
Jim Bennett

Eroded bookshelf and coffee table

The eroded series of objects have been inspired by the natural process of Erosion – where a solid material like stone gets eaten away by an exogenic process like wind flow or water flow. This eating away not only results in changing the quality of the solid object (like smoothness or exposing the internal quality of the element) but also leads to the formation of surfaces and pockets that then become suitable for a different kind of inhabitation.This concept has been developed as a series of objects.
IM Lab

Alpacbeto

Give your books an original and dynamic arrangement: with Alpacbeto you can compose your own bookcase thanks to the honeycomb cardboard modules in the shape of letters. Choose the letters to compose a word or short message and place your books in the natural concave of the letters.
The Alpacbeto letters are also available in brown and black.
Designer: Fabio Biavaschi
Glook at lovli.it

Twist me!

In its side walls there are placed aluminium bearings joint with a wooden nut from the press. By turning the nut, the inner “walls”, are brought into motion and this way they can be positioned against one another, thereby creating space for any number of books. These can be fixed by sufficient pressing and library can be carrying even without emptying the bookcase.
Mejdstudio

BookBenches project

A new public art project will see benches shaped as open books. The benches - to be placed across London - will include one based on Michael Rosen's We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, another on J M Barrie's Peter Pan and a third on Kenneth Graeme's Wind in the Willows. The so-called "BookBenches" will be designed by international and local artists, and aim to promote reading for enjoyment and to celebrate stories linked to the capital.
The Bookseller

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New column in The Independent Magazine

Serpentin

Serpentin is a very simple library play : an oak bar rhythmed by perpendicular bars on which the books of any size will be supported. A clever way to store books and to decorate its walls. Material: Oak, red, gray, white or black.
Thibault Pougeoise

Minimal Bookshelf

A minimal bookshelf with gaps at both ends. Slot a book in and it acts as a bookend. Chan Hwee Chong

REK bookcase junior

A scaled-down version of REK bookcase. Like the original REK, the five parts can be pushed in or pulled out to position them according to the space needed. Entirely made of poplar plywood.  The wood is finished with an organic linseed oil wax.
Reinier de Jong

Bookshelf Silk Tie

An image straight from the shelves of The Bodleian Library printed onto this natty tie. The Literary Gift Company

Mitt Romney's new hidden 'bookshelf-door' room

"The front door of Mitt Romney’s soon to be constructed Hollady house opens to a massive living room, and to your left, around the fireplace, lies a study. If you look closely at the bookshelves there, you find something interesting: a secret door. The second bookshelf from the far wall is really a door that swivels out to reveal a hidden room... The architectural drawings say it’s for "office storage." It measures 11 feet long and is lined with cabinets. The "hidden door," as it’s labeled on the documents, is masked as a bookshelf and swings into the study."

Salt Lake Tribune

Bloomberg's Billy Bookcase Index

"Bloomberg’s annual Billy index shows that the Swedish furniture chain’s signature bookcase remains cheapest in Europe with a price of 34.95 euros ($46.48) in Slovakia and the Netherlands. The Dominican Republic topped the list, which is based on the 2014 catalog on Ikea’s website, with a price of 3,995 pesos ($94.72). The bookshelf costs $59.99 in the U.S. and 349 yuan ($57) in China...
 
"For next year, the average cost globally is $58.93, little changed from $59.35 in the 2013 catalog. In local currency, the bookcase’s price only changed in eight countries. It was cut in the Dominican Republic and parts of Australia and increased in Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Poland and the Netherlands, which saw the biggest percentage change at 17%...

"For 2014, the difference between the costliest and the least expensive bookcase was $48.24, down from $72.14 in 2013."
Bloomberg

Nuage

 

The basic components are the wooden oak shelves and vertical elements in aluminium which has been anodised or painted black. Five dierent heights studied in order to best organise various formats of objects and books. Each composition can be embellished with accessories such as aluminium trays and sliding trays, which are functional and removable, Available in the colours: red, black, yellow. The sliding panels of the bookcases can be in anodized aluminium or painted in red, blue, green, yellow, grey, white or black.
Charlotte Perriand for Cassina

Fake bookshelf lavatory

Sublabh International Museum of Toilets, New Delhi, India.

Build Me Up

Bookcase inspired by building architecture. It reflects the process and the impossibility of putting any end to this process, which is found in urban environment. This idea is applied to the interior, which undergoes similar never ending transformation in building one’s individual environment. The bookcase design is thus based upon a worker figurine, caught in the moment of finishing the ‘wall’ of this product. Design by: Štefan Nosko Photo: Allt
Mejd Studio

Soft Cabinet Green

A cabinet that moves sidewards, right or left, depending on the volume inside the cabinet. Put it next to a wall or another cabinet and fill the cabinet with your stuff. Watch how the cabinet forms and becomes an unique model.
Dewi van der Klomp

Bookends shelving

This body of work explores the structural and visual qualities of the bookend. Each artwork in these series utilize color, collection, and arrangement to highlight the unique possibilities of these utilitarian objects. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of these works is donated to public libraries nationwide. On show at Central Branch Library, Madison.
Niki Johnson

Book headboard

The new apartment was still feeling a little empty and un-lived in so Simon and I set about on this fun little project! It took as about 4 days to put it all together but most that time was spent sourcing the materials so if you were smart about it (and know where to get things – unlike us) then you could do it in a day easy.

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