An email went out today announcing that the vast library of books belonging to Christian History & Biography, part of the Christianity Today International family, was up for grabs. We rushed over to the other building to find people already hauling away the goods. I took a stack of works on American church architecture and African slave religion–two of my interests since studying comparative religion at Miami University years ago.

Carrying the books back to my office, I recalled another really cool bookshelf I’d seen. This bookshelf was designed by Bruno Petronzi. It features a metal stick figure with a light fixture for a head. On his back the figure carries a large bookshelf. Apart from the integration of bookshelf and scupture, one is amazed at how the weight of the books is balanced on the small feet of the stick figure.