Bookshelf

This is a great book for inspiration. My son, who loves design, enjoyed it as much as I did. Loads of ideas for bookshelves for every conceivable place and space. It should be recommended reading for A level design courses. A book to keep returning to.

This is not a.bookshelf it is just a book about bookshelves

good book!

bought as a gift for a friend and they loved it

Good book on the subject.

This was a gift

As the title suggests, this is a book about...bookshelves. No more, no less. It presents photographs of many bookshelves, both bespoke and commercially available (with manufacturer details). If you are interested in interior design and looking for bookshelf inspiration, you will find it here. It's a bit like a very upmarket, gorgeous hardback catalogue. Many of the bookshelves are not terribly functional if you are looking for suggestions to store large numbers of books, but they invariably make up for this by being real talking points in your home. My favourite was a circular hub that had a padded seat inside where children could sit, with shelving on the outside for the books. I want an adult sized version.This is an interesting book to look through, but I didn't like it as much as  Books Make a Home: Elegant Ideas for Storing and Displaying Books , another book that focuses on book storage. The reason for me is that the latter shows bookshelves in situ, surrounded by furniture, in real homes. Whereas in Bookshelf, virtually everything is shown in isolation on a stark white background. It's very specific. Nice for a browse, but less inspiring (at least to me).

This book is pure, unadulterated design porn for book lovers and modern furniture freaks. Born from the "Bookshelf" blog, it's basically hundreds of pages of beautifully photographed bookshelves by designers from around the world. Each has a little snippet about it, as well as the designer's website for those with the pockets deep enough to actually afford some of this stuff. As with so much modern design, the emphasis falls more on the aesthetic side of the aesthetic/functional spectrum. Which is to say, there's a lot of amazing design work here, but these are mostly shelves for people who like to use their books as carefully calibrated signals about themselves. There are some notable exceptions, such as the amazing closet "Staircase" shelves custom made by an architectural firm to maximize storage and access in a tiny apartment. The other thing I noticed is that quite a lot of the designs rely extensively on stacking books flat, which I had always been led to believe was bad in the long-term condition of the binding. But these are just side notes -- it's a lovely book, sure to raise the pulse of anyone who loves to show off their books.