Read Your Bookcase

is designed by Eva Alessandrini and Roberto Saporiti for the Italian furniture design firm Saporiti. At first sight the effect is subtle: the words are quite "invisible" when it's full of books. It's like a sort of subliminal message. Every letter of the alphabet is available, you can combine them in every way your creativity suggest ;)  

: Richiami pop e uso intelligente degli elementi tipografici, inseriti in un’unico template: scegliere le lettere, comporre frasi e allo stesso tempo un mobile delle dimensioni necessarie, sfruttando anche le diverse profondità dei singoli cubi che possono essere utilizzati come tavolini porta oggetti.  

Bookyard is a project where Massimo Bartolini bring the public library to the great outdoors.

In Ghent, Belgium, St. Peter’s Abbey Vineyard has been a part of the town landscape since the Middle Ages. Now this historic vineyard has gotten a beautiful new addition, dubbed Bookyard, which was recently installed by the Italian artist Massimo Bartolini. Designed as part of the art festival Track: A Contemporary City Conversation, 12 sweeping bookcases align with the Abbey’s grapevines and harken back to an old world Europe that was once filled with bounded print, and free from digital forms.

Created by colombian-born, US-based designer Alejandro Gomez Stubbs for his studio Malagana Design, 'EQUILIBRIUM' bookcase relies on stacked angled modules that not only create a playful aesthetic effect but also integrate bookend functionality directly into the shelf design.   'Equilibrium' is capable of holding over 120 pounds (54kg) of weight over its five compartments!!  The bookshelf's modules are connected with a steel joint designed to withstand the weight of the books. The cantilevered design forces the load of the weight towards the center, while the tilt of the compartments replaces bookends with the force of gravity, keeping books together. Capable of being disassembled and fit into the two largest pieces, the set is easily assembled by hand from the five component modules, without the need for tools or additional hardware. Custom colours available by request.  This bookshelf on exhibition during new york design week 2011 as part of american design club's use me show.  Visit the website, it's wonderful and classy ! 

Tetris Bookshelves

by Francesco Ferretti

These shelves are great because they can be rearranged and stacked anyway you like, and you can always make more if you need them. He used a laser cutter to cut the shapes out, making the whole process quick and minimally labor intensive. Each section of the bookcase is a separate shape and color, making the options endless for your storage solutions. I think it’s pretty great, and would love to have one.

"Make your design only limited by your creativity. "

Spiga Bookshelf

Designed by Gianluca Sgalippa, this bookshelf will let your precious collections rest at an angle. Product page aptly describes it as, 'The L shake shelf gradually changes as the angle of rotation like the seeds of the corn ear when it’s ripe. It is made of wood, with ABS finished surfaces and edges and a shelf that looks like a check sign rotated gradually. You get to decide what color you want.

Il design contemporaneo ha deciso che il libro, nella libreria, non deve stare più in verticale. Ebbene, qui se ne assecondano tutte le possibili inclinazioni e dimensioni in un elemento esile. Lo scaffale cambia progressivamente angolo di rotazione come fanno i semi della spiga di grano giunta a maturazione. I bordi colorati visualizzano efficacemente questo sofisticato gioco grafico, che si riaggancia alle ricerche della Op Art degli anni ’60 e ’70, adattate a una funzionalità rigorosissi.

Gianluca Sgalippa

New York based artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz is the author of interesting and unusual bookshelves. For example, the Piano Shelf will be perfect for those, who want to create modern yet artistic atmosphere at home and organize an original storage space at the same time. The item imitates the structure of the keys of a piano, so you can raise or lower the keys and get your own shelf design. Available in black and white colors, the Piano will fit any types of interior, and I think the music lovers will appreciate this piece of furniture worthily.  

Coolest Hidden-door Bookcases!

Leaning bookshelves are nothing new, but this particular one called the Italia Bookshelf by Andrea Vecera reminds of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

ITALIA è la libreria che traduce in materia vitale l’immagine di una Nazione, la nostra:ricca di cultura, storia e grandi potenzialità che tuttavia vive accasciata sul suo antico passato, mentre guarda fuggire grandi menti da sé e lascia ai pochi che restano la difficoltà di trovare una collocazione.

"Italy" is a bookcase that convey the picture of our nation: so rich of culture, full of history and potential. But  in spite of all, Italy lives  collapsed on its past, watching great mind running away and giving to the few who decide to stay the trouble to find a stable setting.

The award-winning Original Bike Shelf by Knife & Saw is a new innovative way to store your bike.

The handmade shelf is designed on site in San Francisco in either solid walnut or ash and offers a modern-day solution for bicycle storaging for those living in the city.

The wood piece is strong enough to hold your bike and anything else you may throw on top of it as it adds a nice touch to any home.

The shelving option is now available through Mission Bicycle for the price of $299 USD.

Cok Cok (more more)

The Turkish designer tying Serhan GURKAN presented his latest work on space MEET his PROJECT Dock en Seine.

Along with its iconic pieces from the collection Fetish or M2 LOVE inspired by local architecture reigned COK COK, fun and flexible shelf whose structure is organized around thin rods steel.

Library, separator parts... COK COK may change its form and its functions according to the wishes of each! It symbolizes the philosophy that inspired the designer during the design: ‘Play with less to create more’ Available in three sizes, it is also available with the elements in black.  

CHANGE, the bookshelf that grows with you!

Bookshelves are the ideal storage space for your favorite texts. This cool piece of home furniture actually let you easily store and display your books in such a way that when you want one, you can find it easily. Here’s a bookshelf that solves the same purpose but with a difference. The brainchild of Chih-Cheng Chien, ‘Change’ bookshelf is a chronological storage space for your text.

Books are the human soul building material that makes you wise. Your reading habits bring constant changes your life. Breaking the mandatory task of just holding your books, 'change' is designed to let you actually see the change.

This cool bookshelf let you find the memories, and share with the next generation.

It’s a spiral system that grows along with your knowledge. You can arrange your books in the chronological order thereby displaying them in a unique way.

Zerino Coffee Table

By AK47

A coffee table can turn out to be such a personal bookcase. Finding just the right one can turn to be such a struggle when it comes to color, size, shape and material– and with all of the options out there these days it can make people scared to pick just one.

The Zerino coffee table is one of the more practical tables we’ve seen for 2012, and with it’s slim profile and thin edges it makes that perfectly understated statement that gets it noticed without being overbearing. AK47 defines it as,

“Zerino is unobtrusive to the eye and useful when needed. Thin and graceful, it cleverly fits the strategic points of the house by adapting to different environments, with personality but without intrusiveness. Its content tells stories that are always different, from the magic of fire to the pleasure of reading.”

The table comes in three different finishes: rust, white and black. It’s also supplied with the bioethanol burner kit to create that little circle of fire to provide just enough light to make the mood right (picture 3). 

Parallel Bars Bookshelf & Optical Shelves

by Julien Vidame

Find it on Vidame Creations!

T.SHELF

by  Jae Won Cho for J1studio’s

J1 Studio’s T.SHELF is brilliant on 12 different levels. Abbreviated for Triangle shelf, the unique shelving system is made up of traingular pieces that can be arranged in nearly infinite combinations, allowing you to set it up around existing furniture, appliances, pets or even lazy room mates.

“My first approach was to get rid of screws, which also gets rid of the tools in assembling the furniture,” says the practically-minded Cho. 

The T.SHELF can be hung by itself on a wall as a sculptural object, or used as furniture. Designed with modern nomadic living in mind, it packs flat and is easy to set up — it was even designed without screws, using cable and zipties to tie every triangle piece together. No tools necessary. Clever.

Several more pictures (spectacular, trust me!) on the official site, here.