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A Bookshelf That Rolls Up Like Ancient Parchment

I love little space savers like this. Here’s a tensioned bookcase that unfurls to give you space for your books and such. Plus it has compartments for pens and other scrolls. For writing decrees, naturally. [BoingBoing]


June 15, 2011
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House Made From Bookshelves Better Than House Made From Ebooks

Say what you will about the death of print and the space-hogging nature of physical books, cause I know this much: I’d rather live in this bookshelf house and thumb through pages than a house with Kindle-lined walls.


March 3, 2011
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An Optical Illusion Bookshelf: Are There 3 Or 4 Shelves?

Using inspiration from the impossible fork, ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects built this optical illusion bookshelf. The shelf looks cartoony and almost invisible but that’s not even the real illusion, the real mind bender is that there are what seems like 4 shelves on the left side but only 3 shelves on the right side. Whoa. [Neatorama]


February 25, 2011
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I Wish My Books Magically Rearranged Themselves Like This

As someone who’s organized a bookshelf with highly specific colour coordination, I greatly appreciate this video of one that organises itself. With a bonus banana, even! Stop-motion videographers of the world, I salute your delicate blend of patience and obsessive compulsiveness.


December 13, 2010

CoasiHome Bio "Helios" Fireplace Has A Shelf Fit For Fahrenheit 451

What better way to display your dry, incredibly flammable collection of first editions than on a trendy bookshelf that also happens to be fireplace?


October 5, 2010

Thousands Of Pencils Hold Books Carefully In Place

While this pencil bookcase would’ve been fairly easy to make, it would’ve been a bitch of a job to drill in 15,000 precisely spaced holes for the pencils to sit in, don’t you think?


September 27, 2010
Gadgets

Invisible Bookshelf Makes The Most Of Wasted Wall Space

Gizmodo AU

No matter how big your bookshelf, there will inevitably come a time when you run out of shelf space. On that day, you should look at this Invisible bookshelf, which will leave your books hanging on any wall in your house.


August 5, 2010

Let’s Go Live In The Climbing Library

The secret stairs bookcase was clever and beautiful. This climbing library is clever and beautiful and comfy. Like the stair bookcase, you can’t go up and down, but you can also use it to lay down and read comfortably.


June 18, 2010

I Want To Live Inside The Bookshelf Apartment

The bookshelf stair is still one of my favourite home improvements ever, but this bookshelf apartment by Rintala Eggertsson bests it by converting your whole 6000-book library into one intimate living space. Take the video tour.


April 23, 2010

Circular Walking Bookshelf

Pick a book from it, step inside, and start walking. Mens sana in corpore sano until you break all your bones falling down some stairs. [LikeCool]