25 Creative and Modern Bookshelves
Even if you don’t read books – having a bookshelf filled with smart books will immediately make you look smarter! And if that bookshelf also happens to be stylish and cool looking – boom! You look smart ant stylish at the same time!
So, to help you find one – we have here an incredible collection of cool and creative bookshelf design examples. Enjoy!
1. Icelandic Tree
Designer: Maria Yasko
2. Books On Earthquakes
This is how Barbie’s House looks like after earthquake.. Designer: Smansk
3. Rill
Designer: Maria Yasko
4. Bee
Designer: Maria Yasko
5. Milky Waterfall
Designer: Maria Yasko and Igor Marisko
6. Bookwave Hanging Storage
Designer: Julien Vidame
7. Collapsing Bookshelf
Designer: Parsy Debon
8. Bookshelf With a Bench
Designer: Stanislav Katz
9. USA Bookshelf
Designer: Ron Arad
10. Between Lines
The work consists of laser cut stainless steel letter bands and then rubber coated in black. Each of the 2.7 meter letter bands can be coiled up to a small roll, unfolded and re-shaped to an infinite array of configurations. Without additional brackets the letter bands are simply screwed to the wall.
By: Wokmedia
11. Crash
Crash plays with the visual tension between chaos and order: the shape might be perceived as chaotic and out of angle, yet the construction is highly stabile.
Designer: Rainer Mutsch
12. Wave Shelving
Designer: Julien Vidame
13. Pulse Bookshelf
Designer: Måns Salomonsen
14. Movement Bookcase
Designer: Sungmin Hong
15. Chaos Theory For Books
Designer: Kim Ji-hye
16. Second And a Half Dimension Shelves
Designer: Bjørn Jørund Blikstad
17. Hanging Books
Designer: Marianne van Ooi
18. When a Room Has No Rules
The shelf system consists of three parts that can be combined in different ways. The smallest part is only about 40cm high and the largest is one meter. They can be used as bookshelves, room dividers, art…anything you want them to be.
Designer: Andreas Hegert
19. Roll Up With a Good Book
Designer: Zhdanova Irina
20. The Line King
“Line” furniture system incorporates a work table, hanger, bookshelf, wine rack, CD rack, TV stand and lighting unit. The most important characteristic of “Line” is it being a no-break line.
Designer: Aykut Erol
21. Polar Bear Shelf
Designer: Ibride
22. Skateboard Shelf
Designer: unknown
23. Contrabass
Designer: unknown
24. Stairs
Designer: Levitate
25. Malus Communis
Designer: Defact Studio
Got wisdom to pour?
I agree with peadarmacgowan. (And it’s quite dusty under the staircase too, right? :) )The photo itself changes a lot as well. A bookshelf in a random room without any specific enlightening and full of actual regular books would look pretty much different and probably much less showy.
I like Ron Arad’s USA bookshelf though.
All except one of these is about form over function. The only truly practical bookcase for a book lover is the stairs. But if you loved your books, why would you hide them away like that? Nearly all of the other shelves here are only useful for CDs and DVDs.
They look great, but I think whole interior should be modern and unusual, otherwise those shelves will be a bit odd, for example in classic interior..
Those heads on the pink bookshelf look creepy..
Icelandic Tree by Maria Yasko is the best bookshelf design I’ve ever seen! To tell you the true, I’ve never looked at bookshelves as something that can be creative at all.
“Roll up” look interesting, but is it comfortable and stable?