Cases and Ends

Yet more items for Raelene's obsession with weird or wonderful bookcases.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/5-crazy-bookcases-for-your-kids-179311

                   

 And some great animal bookends:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-end-all-and-be-all-in-kids-bookends-179260


            

Sunflower Reading Chair

Continuing my love affair with bookshelves... How nice to have books within easy reach while relaxing in a unique chair.

Created by He Mu and Zhang Qian of the Shanghai University of Engineering Science.

That's a Bookstore?

http://www.flavorwire.com/326360/10-awesome-bookstores-repurposed-from-unused-structures?all=1

Amazing what you can turn into a bookstore. See the article for photos of bookstores in what used to be movie theatres, old factories, a firehouse, a railway station, a canal boat, a church and a funeral parlor. My favorite is the one that used to be a circular manure tank. (The article reassures that it now smells like paper and books, not manure!)

aMAZE

What do you do with 250,000 books? How about build a maze?
See all the images at http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/amazeme-book-maze-london-2012-festival

Book Bookshelves

Why not use books to build bookshelves and tables?

http://www.thisintothat.com/gallery_list.php?product=123&gallery=18


http://www.thisintothat.com/gallery_list.php?product=151&gallery=19

Liquorice Library

And yet another great bookshelf. This is so versatile - comes in several colors, plus it's separate pieces that can be combined any way you need.



http://theblogonthebookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/05/liquorice.html

Sit with a Story

For those of us who generally are in the midst of several books at once, or for those who want to keep their to-be-read books near their favorite reading chair:


From nobody&co in Milan, Italy.

Book Slant

by Raelene Gorlinsky

I'm not only a book lover and fanatic, but a bookshelf connoisseur. As you may have guessed from previous blog posts featuring unusual bookshelves. This is one of my favorites - not only interesting and unusual, but functional and appealing.


Courtesy of http://lovelylisting.icanhascheezburger.com/

House of Books

by Raelene Gorlinsky

My house is full of books. After I read them, it would be nice to have other practical decorating ideas for their use.

This looks really neat - turn books into planters, from ApartmentTherapy.com.

And I could wallpaper in books. From the Martha Stewart collection at House Beautiful:

And of course, the ultimate use of books is to make bookshelves (from RealSimple):

Any other good home decorating ideas?

Ten Libraries We Love

Well, okay, libraries and bookstores, but that's less catchy.

Arabic Books by Hasaam Siddiqi

The most beautiful bookstore in the world by Jessie Reeder

Old and charming book by Maurizio Abbate

Dining Room Converted to a Reading Room by Curious Expeditions

bookshelf spectrum, revisited by chotda

Beautiful bookstore by Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Hobvivliothek by Craig Elliott

La caverne aux livres by Alexandre Duret-Lutz

La bibliothèque humaniste de Beatus Rhenanus / Humanist Library of Beatus Rhenanus by Alexandre Dulaunoy

Stockholm Public Library by Samantha Marx

Choose a Chair

Ah, the joys of relaxing with a new book in your favorite comfy reading chair.

http://designcrave.com/2011-04-06/the-octopus-chair-a-throne-fit-for-cthulhu/

The Octopus Chair: A Throne Fit For Cthulhu

 
http://www.wishihadthat.com/monacozigzagchairssoldseparately.aspx

 

http://www.opulentitems.com/Unusual-Lobo-Chairs_p_1048.html

http://www.opulentitems.com/Unique-Furniture-Design.html

http://www.digsdigs.com/15-the-most-unusual-lounge-chairs-in-the-world/

Flower chair

Bathtub chair

Tour de France chair

http://decorfair.com/chairs/unusual-library-chair/

This chair is also shelving - store your books in it.

Bookshelf as Video Star

Okay, how often do you see bookshelf assembly featured in a YouTube video? Don't stop watching when the bookcase is filled! Wait for the cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WBX57boTF5k

Oh, and a bookshelf video by someone who really, really has too much time on their hands if they spent it setting all this up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFnuP9niRUg&NR=1

Brilliant Bookcases

http://www.incrediblethings.com/lists/20-brilliant-bookcases/

Wow, the imagination of some people amazes me. What fun ways to store your print books. I want the Cave, the Butterfly, the Bed Case, the Yin Yang, the Circle Sofa, the ... Oh, wait, maybe I better start by getting a bigger house.

Amazing Uses for Books

OMG, you have got to check this out. Ways to use print books. Books as art, as architecture, as furniture. Scroll down to the ones where the pages of an open book have been cut and folded and molded to make knights fighting, and a giant octopus and ship! I want one of these! But I'm sure they cost the earth - must have taken hundreds or thousands of hours to create.

http://www.offbeatearth.com/dont-like-reading-other-uses-for-books/