One aspect of book culture that seems to be flourishing is bookcase design. Hardly a week goes by without me seeing an image of a newly designed bookcase; the designs and creativity seem endless.
“If you’ve still got an Ikea “Billy” holding up the wall in your apartment, maybe it’s time you freshened up,” is how Rain Noe puts it in his post over at Core77, “If the Kindle Wins, Bookshelf Designers Lose.”
Freshome has posted a gallery of their favorite 30 contemporary bookshelf designs of the last year and a blog called Bookshelf has recently launched. A coffee-table book can’t be far off for this is prime blog to book material.
Image via Core 77Has bookcase design exploded or has the internet simply brought us all closer together with visual (and commercial) opportunities unheard of a generation ago?
I know furniture, like a living room bookshelf, is becoming really popular, probably because there are so many beautiful designs to choose from! I’m pretty glad of this to be honest. Maybe it means more people will buy physical, paper books rather than on their technological devices!
Is it possible for the internet to be both withering and strengthening the book at the same time?
Thanks to Design Milk for the lead on the Neverending bookcase