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A couple of interesting bookshelves.

January 18, 2010
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I’ve mentioned the Bookshelf blog at least once or twice before. It really is quite wonderful. Here are a couple of my favourites from there more recent postings. The blog is well worth a browse as there is a whole lot of fascinating book furniture there.

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Spiral bookshelf

December 8, 2009
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I quite like this shelf. Obviously not the choice for storing a huge number of books, but I’m a big fan of bookshelves being art themselves.
[quadelle sent me to apartment therapy to see it]
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Read a rainbow: arranging books by colour

November 30, 2009

A few years ago I visited the Seattle Public Library and was struck by this display in the children’s library making the most of different coloured spines on the books (photo by Quadelle).
Every now and then I get the urge to run a similar display in my library. I tend to get blank looks or [...]

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Assorted linkage

December 29, 2008

A few bits & pieces from around the traps…

The Book Design Review has a list of favourite book covers of 2008, including one that nearly gave me vertigo:

Book Patrol has a post about some fascinating book-related art by Marina Camargo.

The appropriately named Bookshelf blog continues to post a fascinating collection of interesting bookshelves. This one [...]

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More great stuff over at Bookshelf

September 5, 2008

I was about to post about a couple of things I quite liked over Bookshelf, but then decided I should just give the whole blog a bit of a plug.
The blog Bookshelf as you might expect, features mainly bookshelves along with other assorted book related pieces. While some of them don’t appeal to me, I [...]

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Collapsible, recyclable bookshelves

August 11, 2008

Taking Ikea’s flat-pack philosophy to the next level, PLoP! is a shelving system that simply “plops” open after you open the packaging. When you move house. or no longer need it, you can “plop” it closed again, or recycle it as it’s made of corrugated board.
Oh, and you can keep your books on it in [...]

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Vertical bookshelf

August 8, 2008

On the one hand, I think this may just end up looking like a messy pile of books that manages to stand taller than the average messy pile of books.
On the other hand, I really really like it. 
See it here.

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July 6, 2008

Here’s a cute little bookshelf I saw over at The Blog on the Bookshelf. It actually looks small enough that it could be a desktop shelf if you wanted.
 
 
 
 
 
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