Lovely curved bookcases
Architecture firm Triptyque designed this gracefully curved, apartment wide bookcase for a client in Sao Paolo. I have major bookcase envy.
Link to IO9 (no direct link for Triptyque: like most architects, they have a goofy website with bizarre navigation and no way to directly link to anything) (Thanks, Marilyn!)
I love these shelves that Brazilian design firm Triptyque created for a private apartment in Sao Paulo. They look perfect for lining the walls of spaceships, or as bulkheads. In fact, they are pretty much serving the function of bulkheads in this apartment, since the shelf winds all the way through the whole place, and serves as entertainment system, bookshelf, and cubbyhole warren. Above, you can see it with all the little cabinet doors closed. See below for what it looks like with them open, and also to see the rest of its sections.
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Hideous.
"Dammit. . . when is this acid gonna wear off?"
anything to make those damn boring books look cooler
I like 'em, although I don't know about the bulge about 2/3 of the way up.
z'at wide angle barrel distortion? Or fancy cuttin'?
Lol, I think my intarsurfing skills are improving--I saw this the other day, and wondered when it would get put up here. I'm one step ahead of you, BB mwahaha!
Pretty, but- dust builds on all those lateral surfaces.
#1,
I know you are but what am I?
It is São Paulo! :P
The only drawback is that you can't really use the laterally convex areas for books, since the sides aren't parallel. Unless you like watching your books slump, curl, pull away from their bindings, and fall on the floor. I would have made these outside corner sections a bit wider, so you could stack art books and atlases on their sides there. I suppose there's room there for knick-knacks and paddywhacks. But shelves something like these have always been a dream of mine.
really unpleasant, but deadly on hangover mornings.
#8,
Something that belongs in the Space Mountain line, apparently!
I had a never-built design for bookcases in my hallway that was concave (rather than convex like this). The convex shape maximized utility of hallway by keeping big books away from your torso (the widest part of your body) and having more room for the heavy books by your feet (the narrowest part).
you can't really use the laterally convex areas for books, since the sides aren't parallel.
I think that the uprights are, in fact, upright. The bulge at the corner creates the illusion that they're slanted.
This is, I think, the second most unpleasant book shelving you've ever featured; the first is here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/19/library-built-into-a.html
and I still have nightmares about it.
completely lovely. a bookcase like that for smaller rooms that could hang on the walls above a bed, dresser, or desk would be really cool also.
And Muscato, I loved the staircase bookcase too; I love books and the ability (facilitated by things like this) to stick them anywhere.
Cory, like Eduardo pointed it out, the name of the city is "São Paulo". Probably because I'm Brazilian-American, this is a pet peeve of mine.
I don't mind you dropping the tilde, since we are in 'merca, and accents is hard. So, "Sao Paulo" is fine.
I'm not sure why, though, so many people spell it "Sao Paolo", mixing Portuguese and Italian, but they do. Annoying!