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Your favorite books, your favorite designs, your favorite furniture…Any of your paper books can be sorted by this Check Bookshelf designed by Jongho Park.

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Need to face your books everyday? If so, why not store them on this Face Shelving system? As you place your books onto different locations of the shelf, you can create different faces that would make you smile. Just have a try. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Today we’re loving this Weed Shelving, Sergey Saava’s creative work that is shaped like weed and brings into one’s living room with the nature’s fresh air. Moreover, the Weed Shelving features a unique construction that allows the users to expand the shelving to any length they may need. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Aptly dubbed “Catalyst”, Jiyoung Seo’s shelf triggers user to feel, touch and react with the unit so as to build a closer relationship between people and furniture. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Biased Bookshelf- or more exactly the “Bias of Thought” bookshelf- is a 3D structure created by John Leung for shelving books, hanging magazines and holding your other items. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Chess Bookshelf is in the Chinese traditional style, featuring magnets to hold the chess pieces as unique decorations. These chess pieces could move too, just as normal Chinese Chess does, can therefore to create various visual display of the bookshelf whenever you rearrange them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Balanced Shelf from Christian Kim is a shelf unit that can move to form different shapes. According to your different needs you can arrange them in a horizontal row or set them on the diagonal. But whatever you choose, the new shelf would always achieve equilibrium within the furniture itself and in the room “through an imbalance of the shelf”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Apparently the new bookcase from designer Pietro Travaglini seems not that unique or attractive on the first sight, but when you step backwards with each modular having a new position, and then you’ll find the Schiena Bookcase makes your books look really wonderful. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is always difficult for you to find out the needed books among various ones on the shelf? Then try the AAKKOSET Bookcase designed by Kayiwa. It comes with a series of shelves that are shaped like alphabet A, B, C and others so as to guide you to the books quickly. If you don’t have that much books to exhibit, you can also use AAKKOSET as a room divider and it performs just as good as other decorative dividers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The bookshelf here, the Equilibrium is designed to surprise your guests with a unique shape seeking for briefness, contrast and exaggeration as well. Though seems to defy the gravity, the Equilibrium Bookcase is in reality quite solid and it can sustain over 50 kilograms at one time. So it is really a nice alternative for your stylish living room. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Of course the bookshelf holds your books, but more importantly, it also grows to accommodate more books. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Can you imagine that the simple Loop Chair can be arranged in 12 different ways? Let the pictures tell you how to do that: simply fold the hinges and fix the shape with special connectors, you can have the furniture change into various states, from a television chair to a bookshelf, from a chaise-lounge to a barstool. Isn’t that interesting? You should also have a try. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Many people love clouds because they’re white, clean and they change constantly to show us new beauty. The designers also love cloud, so they’ve created Cloud Chair, Cloud Umbrella, Cloud Meeting Room and the cute Cloud Shelves. Prefect for blue walls! [Read the rest of this entry...]

As we become more and more technologically inclined, the books we read has followed the same trend. But while most others prefer to read online, the London designers Campaign are still keeping their deep love for paper books. Therefore Campaign has designed a cardboard bookshop for the London Festival of Architecture, to celebrate the art form of the printed publication. Named as Foldaway Bookshop, the store is stocked by RIBA Bookshops and sells latest must-have high quality publications and the most coveted architecture classics. Pity that the shop opens just for 13 days and it will be recycled at the end of the Festival. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The exceptional round shape and bright white/red colors give Kim Ji-hye’s bookshelf a refreshing look, making it quite outstanding among all the bookshelves we’ve ever seen. But what actually makes the bookshelf special and unique is its “Need Not Arrange Anymore” concept—no longer need to keep the books well-organized, just enjoy the chaotic status of putting books freely. I love the idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]