Thursday, 3 July 2014

Book benches


50 unique BookBench sculptures, designed by local artists and famous names to celebrate London’s literary heritage and reading for enjoyment. Runs until September.
Books about Town

Monday, 30 June 2014

Stockwerk


Stockwerk appears to negate its material properties. Due to the cut side walls the solid wood construction becomes a foldable object reminiscent of a compressible paper model. As an alternative to plug and screw connections this shelf needs no assembly and is delivered folded up. The side walls are split, mitred and fixed with piano hinges. The system is fully linked together; the shelves just have to be unfolded. The system is self-stabilizing via the mitre-chamfer on the side wall edges. Despite having fewer and simpler production steps, a complex functional system is possible. The final height of the shelf is customisable, as some compartments can stay closed according to requirements.
Meike Harde

Monday, 23 June 2014

Are Little Free Libraries illegal?


A north Leawood man will have to decide whether to remove a Little Free Library he recently installed in his front yard — or face a citation from the city.
More at the Prairie Village Post and Kansas City Star.

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

28books

Books hang by a piece of ribbon which also acts as a bookmark. Supports up to 60 volumes.
Momu Design

28books

Books hang by a piece of ribbon which also acts as a bookmark. Supports up to 60 volumes.
Momu Design

Monday, 19 May 2014

Silent bookshelves

Each bookshelf is made from a sheet of metal to mount on the wall to create a skyline effect with just a dash of color that all but disappears under your books. The shelf features a small roof form that helps you find your books with ease. Available in white, yellow and white+yellow. Designed by Antigone Acconci and Riccardo Bastiani

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Hidden library door

A door hidden within a wall of bookcases at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, owned by the National Trust. It is decorated with real book spines, with tongue in cheek titles that reference events and people from the history of Oxburgh.

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Controvento



Controvento, with its apparently precarious balance, is a refined dispute between visual instability and actual stability, it is a dizzying challenge to the force of gravity, the expression of a profound aspiration to a transparent, metaphysical lightness.
alcarol

Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Booken



By Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay at design studio Raw Edges for Italian brand Lema. The idea behind the design is that many novels, once read are never reread, but passed on to friends, given away or even destroyed. Booken uses these books as an intrinsic part of the support system of the bookshelf (or side table for books). Conversely, favourite books can also be stored in this way with favourite passages marked by one of the 20 oak ‘bookmarks' supplied as part of the shelf. Booken can also be wall hung and comes in two open pore colours allowing the texture of the wood grain to show through the lacquer colour.
Go Modern

Monday, 31 March 2014

Deer

Inspired by wild deer in the forest. Material: Solid Oak 1070mm x 930mm x 215mm
Be Design

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Serif 4 Shelf


In her Seamless collection, Iraqi-British “starchitect” Zaha Hadid fuses complex curvilinear geometries with detailed ergonomic research, invoking a new design language driven by advances in digital processes and cutting-edge fabrication techniques. Produced in 2009 by UK-based manufacturing brand Established & Sons, this collection includes the dynamic wall-mounted Serif 4 Shelf, offered here in a bespoke white color. This biomorphic design is part of an edition of 12.
L'ArcoBaleno

Friday, 7 March 2014

Spineless Classics


An intriguing alternative way of 'shelving' from Spineless Classics, an entire book in poster format designed around each book's central theme. We've been roadtesting The Hobbit at Bookshelf HQ but there are lots of other examples from The Origin of Species and the Bible to the MGB Haynes Manual and Shakespeare.


Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Alpha


Inspired by the lines and planes from the urban landscape.
Dast