For our newest lookbook, we have collected eight properties the place fashionable wall-mounted and built-in bookshelves add storage and visible curiosity.
For e book lovers, storage can rapidly develop into an issue. However well-designed cabinets can remedy this subject and concurrently perform as an ornamental element.
This lookbook showcases sensible bookshelves from throughout the globe, together with custom-made metal shelving in Chicago and a floor-to-ceiling picket bookcase in Shanghai.
That is the most recent in our lookbooks collection, which supplies visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration see earlier lookbooks that includes loos with sunken baths, bedrooms with regal four-poster beds and interiors with pure supplies and timeless accents.
Residence for Two Collectors, US, by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Native studio Wheeler Kearns Architects designed this Chicago residence for 2 artwork collectors to have sufficient area for his or her in depth assortment.
Within the penthouse’s front room, a custom-made shelf in patinated metal with its personal round staircase takes up nearly a complete wall. That is crammed not simply with books but additionally with numerous artworks in wooden and clay.
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Home 6, Spain, by Zooco Estudio
Bookshelves span two ranges of this flat in Mallorca, designed by Spanish studio Zooco Estudio. Vibrant e book covers distinction in opposition to the white shelving unit, which rises up from the bottom ground.
“As a unifying factor, a shelf rises colonising each dwelling and foyer areas,” the studio stated. “This manner we combine aesthetic and performance in a single single factor.”
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Pedro Reyes Home, Mexico, by Pedro Reyes
The Mexico Metropolis residence of sculptor Pedro Reyes and designer Carla Fernandez is crammed with sculptural particulars together with a double-height staircase and a library comprised of coarse concrete.
The concrete is left uncovered each right here and all through the remainder of the home, which takes cues from the town’s modernist and brutalist buildings, together with examples by Luis Barragán.
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Library Dwelling, China, by Atelier Tao+C
This Shanghai house, situated within the ISS Normandy Flats designed by Hungarian-Slovak architect László Hudec in 1924, is nearly fully lined with bookshelves.
The picket storage matches the flat’s parquet flooring and contrasts with the white marble staircase within the dwelling space, the place a wine fridge provides to the relaxed really feel of the room.
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A Cloistered Home, UK, by Turner Architects
When Turner Architects renovated this Georgian terraced home in south London, the British studio was cautious to revive the constructing’s authentic options whereas nonetheless holding it fashionable.
Constructed-in cabinets crammed with books add a splash of sage inexperienced to the lounge, the place a comfy mustard-yellow couch creates an inviting studying spot.
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Farleigh Highway Home, UK, by Paolo Cossu Architects
A clean picket bookshelf strains the wall and connects to a chunky picket staircase inside Farleigh Highway Home in east London, designed by native studio Paolo Cossu Architects.
Its deep cabinets present area for books in addition to magazines, crops, vases and lamps.
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Cuernavaca Home, Mexico, by Tapia McMahon
Inside this household residence in Mexico Metropolis, an enormous timber bookcase provides a heat really feel to the concrete partitions.
“Giant timber bookshelves and a kitchen meeting mimic furnishings installations and assist to interrupt up the usage of fair-faced concrete partitions and slabs all through,” structure studio Tapia McMahon stated.
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Charlotte Highway warehouse, UK, by Emil Eve Architects
The lounge inside this house in a former warehouse in Shoreditch, east London, incorporates a built-in picket bookcase that enhances the uncovered picket beams within the ceiling.
Reaching all the way in which as much as the ceiling, the oak shelving was designed so as to add to the nice and cozy materials palette of the brick-and-timber constructing.
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That is the most recent in our lookbooks collection, which supplies visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration see earlier lookbooks that includes loos with sunken baths, bedrooms with regal four-poster beds and interiors with pure supplies and timeless accents.
