Really Cool Bookshelves
The Humble Shelf goes Chic
Oct 3rd, 2008 | By Skye Jethani | Category: DesignI’m a big fan of shelves. What’s not to like? They’re immensely practical. Beyond holding items of importance off the floor and tables, they’re great parenting tools. Putting a misbehaving child’s toy on an out-of-reach shelf is a basic disciplinary tactic. The child can see the toy but cannot reach it…clear incentive to improve his or her behavior.
Can you imagine a house without shelves? What would we do with all of our stuff? It would be chaos, pandemonium, anarchy! We’d never find anything, and the dog would have unfettered access to un-canine materials. Beyond such tangible matters, we’d lose all kinds of great idioms like, “You’ve got to put the cookies on a lower shelf.” And, “It’s ready off the shelf.”
I could go on indefinitely about the blessings of bookshelves, but forget the practicalities–here are some especially cool looking bookshelves I’ve stumbled upon. Anyone who loves books must admire these designs. Strange and some rather impractical, but what a great way to display books as art.
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Regarding the chair-shelf with the single front wheel: if it has a cooler and panini grill on the other side, I’d never have to get up…