"I am looking in every nook and cranny of the room to find hidden spaces. Under the table, beneath the bed, above the wardrobe ... All the space in the room is completely full of odds and ends. There's no other choice. And I start building my objet like the city's tallest building seen from the window in the room."
White birch, UV gloss paint
540x700x2370 (mm)
SY Design
Book towns are a reader’s ultimate getaway destination. From Hay-on-Wye in Wales to Urueña in Spain, Fjaerland in Norway to Jimbochu in Japan, around 40 semi-official book towns now exist around the world. But until now, there has been no complete directory of their location, history and charm. Book Towns takes readers on a richly illustrated tour of these captivating, dedicated havens of literature, outlining the origins and development of each community, and offering practical travel advice. Explore bustling book markets in Kolkata and Buenos Aires, and pop-up shops in old churches, ferry waiting rooms and stables. A stylish and original guide, it is the perfect gift for both book lovers and travel enthusiasts.
Published today in the USA, published on April 5 in the UK.
An installation in three parts that functions as a connection between two floors while also offering space to work, collect and store.
Dimensions: 98 x 155 x 290 cm
Materials: Steel, oak
Studio Mieke Meijer
What makes a book town?
It can’t be too big—not a city, but a genuine town, usually in a rural setting. It has to have bookshops—not one or two, but a real concentration, where a bibliophile might spend hours, even days, browsing. Usually a book town begins with a couple of secondhand bookstores and later grows to offer new books, too.But mostly, they have a lot of books for sale.Hobart, New York, is a perfect example of how having one bookstore in a small town is nice, but having many bookstores together makes a place special—a destination. Since the 1970s, book towns like it have been springing up all over the world. There are now dozens of them, from Australia and Finland to India and South Korea.In the forthcoming Book Towns, journalist Alex Johnson catalogues these most charming of tourist destinations. He spoke to Atlas Obscura about the pleasures of out-of-the-way places defined by their books.
More at Atlas Obscura
Terreria is part modular furniture and part Italian farmhouse window looking out over the countryside. The single elements can be assembled to produce an infinite number of configurations and exploit the many potentials of ceramic. Terracotta components are available in four different geometric configurations. Blocks are 30.5cm deep, 40cm high and vary in width between 17 and 29 cm.
The apparent rigidity of a modular structure created by the intersection of tubular elements reveals itself as part of a 20 creative project, starting from the logo. The 4 shelves incorporated in the supporting module, with a slight tilt to never drop books, magazines and objects, can be lacquered even in colors different from the structural frame.
Ernesto Maria Giuffré for Meme Design
Today is the last stop of Claire Cock-Starkey's blog tour for her latest book, the excellent A Library Miscellany which will certainly appeal to readers of Bookshelf. You can read more about Claire and her books (the others are also all well worth a read) at www.nonfictioness.com and on the Twitter where she is @nonfictioness - she will also be speaking about A Library Miscellany (and her previous work, The Book Lovers'
Miscellany) at the Oxford Literary Festival on March 20 at 12pm. Worth reading the thread for other examples of attic bookshelves and library laddersI converted my attic, which I was always too frightened to enter anyway, into extra bookshelf space. I have a ladder!!! I only know one other person with a ladder @Cecelia_Ahern pic.twitter.com/H2S60x3yDT— John Boyne (@john_boyne) February 9, 2018
When libraries troll their patrons. pic.twitter.com/Hn8a96f8je— Blue Reflective Surface (@Metafrantic) February 4, 2018
Made of ultra-fine metal. 2.5mm thick. Powder-coated in a choice of 15 colours.
MEMEDesign
This slightly peculiar book shelf comes from the frustration that bookshelves almost always fail to do what its name suggest, and keep the books without the help of extra elements or bookends. My reaction to it was the naïve thought that if the bookends are anyways there, why not try and make a complete shelf out of them. The most common bookends being made of folded sheet steel dictated the material and the only thing left was solving some gravity issues…
Nitzan Cohen
Well Lauren’s a blithering idiot then, isn’t she? pic.twitter.com/2uAAp87TTK— Pete Otway (@PeteOtway) December 31, 2017
A new trend to ‘coordinate’ the look of your library by turning the spines to face inward defies good sense. But apparently it’s catching on.
The Guardian
Cylinders with square compartments. Made of white, red or anthracite macroter lacquered wood.
IK/1: 104 x 34 x h.156 cm
IK/2: 156 x 34 x h.208 cm
Lloyd Schwan for Cappellini
Between furniture and microarchitecture, this Corner Shelf emphasises the corner, a significant space in the house (a meeting between two planes, a boundary). Objects can be hidden or shown according to their place in the shelf. The one stepladder enables a quick and easy access to skim through a book.
Painted wood - 75 x 90 x 210 cm.
Studio Dessuant Bone
A modular bookcase that combines the minimal nature of the colour white with a basic and relaxing feel of a library. The Blio is an arrangement of modular elements with different widths and depths, creating a large amount of surface and storage space whilst maintaining accessibility. The compartments of the library can be opened laterally, aided particularly by the front doors that open and close without a handle thanks to the push-pull system.
Kristalia
The wire ironwork is industrial by nature, yet the cloud design keeps a whimsical touch. Two shelves and seven compartments provide amble space for stationary or books.
Graham & Green
- H.54cm
- W.66cm
- D.18cm
A small bookshop for mice. More details here (in Swedish) and here (in English).
Anonymouse
