Is that a fire hose? If so, good thinking.
Beautiful, isn’t it? (The wall of books, I mean. Not the fire hose.) File under: bookshelf of the week.
Via unconsumption:
Via bookshelfporn:
Repurposed newspaper stand bookshelf.
(via Poetic Home)
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Love this — it’s part of Reading in Public’s work, a group based in San Luis Obispo, California, that encourages the art of reading.
About Reading in Public:
Reading In Public (RIP!) was formed to celebrate the written word by way of community performance in public spaces. The project began as a response to the shifting landscape in publishing, and the realization that more and more of us are writing in public, as bloggers and tweeters, for instance. Similarly, we sought to broadcast words in public, through the simple act of contemplative reading on a noisy street corner, or as performance, with readers directly engaging onlookers.
About the book rack:
Library! is an abandoned newspaper rack, repurposed into an informal traveling book and culture exchange within the city of San Luis Obispo, a venue for creative readers who care that reading not become a lost art.
Readers of all ages will be able to find books, magazines, sketchbooks, or an actual piece of book art, and borrowers are encouraged to leave an item for lending. Each piece will have a library card documenting its travels. When a reader checks a piece out, they’re asked to sign the card and leave those in a box located on top of the rack. We welcome creative annotation to all the art pieces, and we encourage personal notes in the books left by readers.
Related: Unconsumption post about a used book exchange/swap housed in a repurposed phone booth.
Today in “things we love.” Also: Bookshelf-of-the-week – on a Monday!
Via keiren-smith:
Via bookshelves:
El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Converted from a theatre.
Oh.Oh.Oh. I want to go to there.
Bookshelf-of-the-week.
Via johneepixels7:
Interior Design of the Day: The interior of the Bryant Park branch of Manhattan-based coffee shop D’Espresso was designed by Nema Workshop’s Anurag Nema to resemble a sideways library.
The “books” are actually tiles printed with sepia-toned photos of bookshelves at a local travel bookstore that ring the room, including the floor, walls and ceiling. In addition to painting unusual surfaces with intriguing patterns — whoa, you’re standing on books! — it gives an Alice in Wonderland-esque sense that the room has been suddenly upended.
[fastcodesign.]
This will be my new interior wallpaper. I love it.
This ranks highly on the bookshelf-of-the-week list.
Via texturism:
clever, practical & good looking. | via thatkindofwoman micasaessucasa
Bookshelf-of-the-week selection.
Via bobulate:
Located in the grounds of Hay Castle, Wales is the Honesty Bookshop, a 24-hour open air bookshop where people select books and post the money for them through a small letterbox. Hardbacks at 50p and paperbacks at 30p. The Castle is at Hay-on-Wye, the “town of books,” so much so that according to my guidebook “if you don’t like books, you should certainly avoid Hay-on-Wye.” If you’re of the sort who does, however, be sure to make it out for the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts. (thx, adam)
Bookshelf-of-the-week selection.