Object Frame: Wall Display Shelves Meet Picture Frames
Now discontinued, but definitely a do-it-yourself project for even less-skilled woodworkers, Pablo the Object Frame is a simple way of giving deferential display space to three-dimensional artworks...
View ArticleExpandable Furniture Pulls Out all the Stops For Your Space
Book lovers know the perpetual bookshelf problem: you have too many books, so you get another bookshelf, but then the shelf looks empty until you get more books to fill it up entirely. Then as soon as...
View ArticleRead and Relax in the Sculptural Bookworm Chair
Surround yourself with the books you love as you lounge on the ‘Bookworm’, a combination chair/bookcase with a sculptural curving design by Atelier 010. The Bookworm chair even has built-in lighting,...
View ArticleStorytime Sanctuary: Nautilus Bookshelf Wraps Readers
A series of curved shelving units, the Nautilus by Alicia Bastian is made mainly for kids but might make adults a bit jealous as well. Featured in the Northern Michigan University’s debut exhibit at...
View ArticleLumberjack Bookcase: Rough & Simple Gravity-Held Shelves
Like a cut through a log with an axe, Damien Gernay imagines this system as being blunt, direct and functionally effective. As in an axe swing, gravity does most of the heavy lifting here, so to speak...
View ArticleNiche Custom Bookcases: Built to Fit Your Exact Collection
Customization doesn’t come any more complete than this, but before you buy you had better be sure you know exactly what your favorite books are … and will remain. Jane Dandy is an Etsy builder and...
View ArticleFloating Bookshelves Turn Books Into Unique Hanging Art
Dedicated bibliophiles know that how you display your books is nearly as important as the type of books you read. Raw Edges, a Tel Aviv design studio comprised of Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay, designed...
View ArticleBuilding Blocks for Adults: Creative Odd-Shaped Shelving
Rectilinear shelves make it easy to organize and display objects in a variety of shapes, but thinking outside the box (literally) can lead to visuals that are refreshingly unexpected. The ROOM...
View ArticleClassic Rotating Bookcase Gets a Modern Modular Update
In the 1960s, famed furniture designer Gianfranco Frattini introduced to the world a beautiful new type of bookcase. The designer’s spinning bookcase featured cube-shaped shelves that were stylish...
View ArticleLight Words: Books Appear to Float on Slanted Metal Shelf
The Fiction Bookstand from designer Sebastian Bergne is designed to both hold your fiction (and non-fiction) and appear to cause a fictional effect. The stand, made of a single piece of folded steel,...
View ArticleAiry Modern Bookshelf is 12 Interlocking Wooden Frames
The Frames 2.0 bookshelf from designer Gerard de Hoop takes the traditional (and, let’s face it, kind of boring) bookshelf design and turns it into a functional minimalist sculpture. Frames 2.0 is...
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