Comments on: Coolest bookshelf… http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/ Random musings. Imaginary readers. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:44:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lakshmi http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-31932 Lakshmi Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:09:09 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-31932 It IS a cool book shelf. Just a trifle expensive (at least in INR)..so perhaps I will have our local carpenter make one in that design... Thanks for the tip. It IS a cool book shelf. Just a trifle expensive (at least in INR)..so perhaps I will have our local carpenter make one in that design…
Thanks for the tip.

]]> By: Shripriya http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-28192 Shripriya Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:24:18 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-28192 @ JSK - yep, they are at DWR. They are also at West Elm - http://tinyurl.com/33m6r6 @ Niranjana and TGFI - LOL!! Sorry, I had to dramatically shrink the file size to post it online and thus lost quality. I will keep the squinting game in mind for future posts! @ Charlie - :) @ Prithvi - you can swing out just one book. You just have to take it out and then put it back - it is quite easy since there are only 5-6 books on each "shelf". The Kuramata design is hard for books since every single book comes in a different shape and size (while the revolving cabinet has exactly the same dimensions for every "shelf"). This design comes closest to solving the problem. @ Kushi - as JSK mentions above, you can buy them at either Design Within Reach: http://designwithinreach.com/productdetail.cfm?id=5280 or at West Elm: http://tinyurl.com/33m6r6 @ JSK - yep, they are at DWR. They are also at West Elm -
http://tinyurl.com/33m6r6

@ Niranjana and TGFI - LOL!! Sorry, I had to dramatically shrink the file size to post it online and thus lost quality. I will keep the squinting game in mind for future posts!

@ Charlie - :)

@ Prithvi - you can swing out just one book. You just have to take it out and then put it back - it is quite easy since there are only 5-6 books on each “shelf”. The Kuramata design is hard for books since every single book comes in a different shape and size (while the revolving cabinet has exactly the same dimensions for every “shelf”). This design comes closest to solving the problem.

@ Kushi - as JSK mentions above, you can buy them at either
Design Within Reach:
http://designwithinreach.com/productdetail.cfm?id=5280
or at West Elm: http://tinyurl.com/33m6r6

]]> By: Khushi http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-27938 Khushi Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:17:29 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-27938 Man! where did you find them? I'd love to have one for myself! Man! where did you find them? I’d love to have one for myself!

]]> By: Prithvi http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26965 Prithvi Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:12:56 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26965 I've seen this shelving at the Conran Shop and also DWR. I remember thinking that it would be interesting if they had some modularity in the spacing between the shelves. I also want to be able to swivel out a single book even if it might increase the footprint so that the functionality mimics a traditional bookshelf. I have always felt it was possible based on the Kuramata revolving cabinet design from the seventies. I've spent ages fantasising about bookshelves but then there are no space constraints in my daydreams :-) I’ve seen this shelving at the Conran Shop and also DWR. I remember thinking that it would be interesting if they had some modularity in the spacing between the shelves. I also want to be able to swivel out a single book even if it might increase the footprint so that the functionality mimics a traditional bookshelf. I have always felt it was possible based on the Kuramata revolving cabinet design from the seventies. I’ve spent ages fantasising about bookshelves but then there are no space constraints in my daydreams :-)

]]> By: Niranjana http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26921 Niranjana Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:01:53 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26921 @TGFI, I'd missed that one...guess your squint is keener than mine :) @TGFI,
I’d missed that one…guess your squint is keener than mine :)

]]> By: Charlie http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26918 Charlie Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:48:07 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26918 And here I thought you guys had some kind of paranormal symmetrical bookstacking thing going a la Ghostbusters. "Dr Ray Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947. Dr. Peter Venkman: You're right, no human being would stack books like this. " And here I thought you guys had some kind of paranormal symmetrical bookstacking thing going a la Ghostbusters.

“Dr Ray Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.
Dr. Peter Venkman: You’re right, no human being would stack books like this. “

]]> By: Tgfi http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26886 Tgfi Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:22:49 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26886 @ niranjana, hehe i was doing that too. i got Turkey (Travel?) in addition to yours. Shripriya, you need to post a better pic. this game is fun! :) @ niranjana,
hehe i was doing that too. i got Turkey (Travel?) in addition to yours.

Shripriya, you need to post a better pic. this game is fun! :)

]]> By: Niranjana http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26885 Niranjana Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:51:39 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26885 WANT, WANT. I spent way more time than I ought squinting at the picture trying to make out the titles. So far: Douglas Adams, The Crusades, Spies, Wisden and umm...Healthcare? WANT, WANT.
I spent way more time than I ought squinting at the picture trying to make out the titles. So far: Douglas Adams, The Crusades, Spies, Wisden and umm…Healthcare?

]]> By: Tgfi http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26866 Tgfi Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:28:50 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26866 Soon they will come to be known as the blogger's bookcases, given how much they are popularized through blogs. :) Soon they will come to be known as the blogger’s bookcases, given how much they are popularized through blogs. :)

]]> By: JSK http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26862 JSK Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:54:54 +0000 http://shripriya.com/blog/2007/12/24/coolest-bookshelf/#comment-26862 I found them, on the Design Within Reach Web site: http://www.dwr.com/search.cfm?Ntx=mode matchpartialmax&N=0&Ntt=sapien I may try one out. Thanks for the tip. I found them, on the Design Within Reach Web site: http://www.dwr.com/search.cfm?Ntx=mode matchpartialmax&N=0&Ntt=sapien

I may try one out. Thanks for the tip.

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