13 CREATIVE BOOKSHELF DESIGNS

Reading Room (Dividers): 13 Creative Bookshelf Designs
By Steph, Web Urbanist, 19 March 2014.

Books make everything better, especially when you’re looking to divide a large loft or studio apartment into smaller, more functional spaces. Bookshelf room dividers go far beyond the standard IKEA Expedit setup, as these 13 examples illustrate, with some offering built-in reading nooks or modular systems that can be expanded as your personal library grows.

1. Bookshelf Tower and Divider by Marica Vizzuso

This folding metal screen has slots for books of various sizes, and it can either close up into a columnar tower or be opened for use as a room divider. B-OK by Marica Vizzuso is not only multi-functional, it also turns books into art.

Says the designer, “Why do you place books in a conventional way when you can have both an amusing and aesthetically interesting alternative?”

2. Charmingly Off-Kilter

Open cubes and rectangles are packed together in a random and off-kilter fashion, resulting in a visually dynamic room divider with a built-in desk.

3. Hidden Chair and Footstool

The ‘Shelflife’ series by Charles Trevelyan for Viable London is a space-saving bookcase and room divider with a chair and footstool hidden within the structure of the shelves.

4. Modern Leaning Bookcase and Room Divider

Forget about bookends - you don’t need them with this modular bookcase and room divider system by Nitzan Cohen. The leaning shelves ensure that books stay put, and modules can be added as your collection grows.

5. Alphabet Room Divider Bookshelf

So maybe it’s a little difficult to fit books into rounded letters like C and O, but but this room divider and storage system by modern Finnish designer Lincoln Kayiwa is still a fun way to organize small objects. It’s made of medium-density fibreboard and available in a range of colours.

6. Babel Narrow Bookshelf Tower

The Babel multifunctional storage system and room divider features horizontal shelves with loose modules that can be arranged in any way you wish to create custom-fit shelving for your books and other belongings.

7. Modular Stacked System by Muuto

Need even more flexibility? The Stacked Shelf System by JDS Architects for Muuto consists of individual shelf units in three sizes that can be clipped together in virtually any configuration. That means you can create a wall in any shape you like, even routing it over furniture, radiators and other objects.

8. Do-It-Yourself Stacked Book Divider Idea

If you want a book-themed room divider, but aren’t concerned about actually having access to those books, maybe you could take inspiration from this gorgeous project at the TU Delft library. Books are meticulously stacked to achieve an even height for the library information counter.

9. Bookshelf Room Divider with Built-In Seating

This fun bookshelf and room divider has a cosy reading nook built right in. ‘CAVE’ by Sakura Adachi is like a miniature library in one piece of furniture.

10. Corner Bookshelf Room Divider

Corner bookshelves like the Arie Shelving System can be an ideal way to delineate a small, separate space within a large room.

11. Swinging Bookshelf Room Partition by Yuko Shibata

This creative swinging bookshelf partition by Yuko Shibata Architects breaks up a larger space into two separate rooms when it’s opened.

12. Armchair Bookshelf Hybrid

The Wha Cabinet by Tembolat Gugkaev is another seating/bookcase hybrid offering a creative way to store books.

13. Classic Book Room Screen

If you love the look of a home library but don’t quite have a big enough collection, fake it ’til you make it with a room divider printed to look like shelves full of books.

[Source: Web Urbanist. Edited.]