Unusual Bookshelves

When you don’t plan to use the bed, split the bed and stack it on your bookshelf! The design has been awarded The New Designers KBSA Award for for simplicity, space-saving, user-friendliness and great attention to detail.

It’s the bee’s knees! Shaped in the form of a bee-hive, check out this shelf by Mostapha El Ouhlani, a designer from Marocco.

 In the form of different postures assumed by a running person.

Uncommon bookshelves can call itself complete without featuring the staircase book shelf by London-based Levitate Architects who designed this ingenious solution to the book storage problem by designing a staircase that doubles up as a home library.

Check out the Equation bookshelf by Marcos Breder in which you can arrange stuff based on priority! Your most precious items go inside the paranthesis, the lesser ones go to the outer brackets. How is that for organization!

 

Here is a bookshelf for the hopeless, die-hard book addict. Read and sleep with your books with Stanislav Katz‘s concept ‘Bookshelf with couch’.

 The bottom most book is a cleverly designed bracket for the shelf.

it is a beautiful object that showcases the italian craftmanship to which Made is deeply attached. The stainless steel structure made of two rounded arms that are linked together with three storing cases for books.

A hybrid between a bookshelf, bath and an armchair.

Bookworm – The Flexible Bookshelf. An artist creativity combined with a great company’s technology, gives life to a bookcase design of industrial scale that can rightfully be considered the world’s most daring and revolutionary.

Another bookshelf on the staircase. Photo from a house renovated by Adam Jirkal, Jerry Kozaa and Tomáš Kalhous, located in Všenory, Czech Republic.

A design that enhances the utility of the ordinary bookshelf by providing shelving which requires no bookends or heavy-handed adjustments when a book is removed from the stack. It’s simplicity also adds elegance without removing any previous storage or decorative capabilities.

A design not in this list because of the ingenuity of the furniture but more so because of its organization. The rainbow bookshelf is a pleasure to watch.