Although it is hard to come up with new great designs, Ron Arad wanted to create something new, and he created a bookshelf inspired by the map of United States of America. Each shelf is a US state, so you can put books in your favorite states, or even put books by category. For example in Michigan , where is Detroit, you can put books about cars and so on .

This design was exhibited with other Ron Arad creations at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London between April 8 and May 9, 2009.

continue reading "United States of America bookshelf"

If you enjoyed this design, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

If you are not very excited by building bookshelves from books and you want more you can build INVISIBLE shelves made from books. The bookshelves are not there practically. Watch the video to see how great they are to put in your home:

If you enjoyed this design, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

If you want to have some cool bookshelves that almost nobody will have and you have some big books that you don’t need anymore you can create bookshelves made from real books!

In the pictures below the man who is building the bookshelf is using some advanced tools but you can use just a scissors and some glue.

Some day I will build for myself a bookshelf like this because is a unique thing and looks really well on your wall. But of course you need to find books that you don’t need anymore and you are ready to “destroy” them.

So here are the steps that you need to take, described in pictures:

continue reading "How to make bookshelves made from books"

If you enjoyed this design, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!