The uneven vertical elements serve as a backdrop for the objects placed in front. You'll need to walk around it to be able to discover the wonders it holds.
The uneven vertical elements serve as a backdrop for the objects placed in front. You'll need to walk around it to be able to discover the wonders it holds.
Inspired by my own bookcase — the one that has followed me between cities, been rearranged a hundred times, and still holds things I can't explain why I've kept.
It is not a shelf. Shelves are horizontal, orderly, efficient. BookCase is vertical and uneven, a structure of interruptions. The tall elements and the short ones create a landscape rather than a surface. Things rest in front of them, not on them.You'll need to walk around it to understand it.
That is not a design flaw. It is the point. A cabinet of curiosities has never revealed itself from one angle.The objects it holds are not arranged. They are found. A piece of stone. Something from a market in a city you meant to go back to. A book you haven't read yet.
BookCase was designed to hold all of it and to make whatever you place in it look like it was always meant to be there.
