This bookcase without shelves by Tokyo designer Chicako Ibaraki is now in production with Italian brand Casamania.

Ibaraki presented the Weave Bookcase prototype with young designers' showcase Designersblock during the London Design Festival 2010 (see our earlier story) and exhibited the new version for Casamania at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last month.

The free-standing structure is made of flat stainless-steel bars that intersect and overlap at right angles, coated in textured rubber to give the books some grip.

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At the Designersblock exhibition during last month's London Design Festival, Tokyo designer Chicako Ibaraki displayed the Hollow stool, Weave bookshelf and Line light (above).

Above: Line light and Hollow stool

Line is a floor-standing LED lamp with an acrylic diffuser, inspired by a shaft of light peaking through the opening of a small window.

Above: Weave bookshelf

Weave bookshelf is made of rubber-painted interlocking steel bars which Ibaraki says can hold up to 200 books.

Hollow is a simple fibre-reinforced plastic stool.

Here are the details from Ibaraki:

I saw a line of light shine in, through a small window.
It was simple, clear and sharp. The room’s stillness was created by the light.
I wanted to capture the line of the light.

The light source is an LED lamp it makes the whole diffuser glow.
The high luminescence provided by the LED lamp output allows for lower power consumption and creates a more sustainable light’s life.

Line / floor light
Material: acrylic diffuser with metal base,
Size: W400*D400*H1400

Weave
Design: Chicako Ibaraki

Two flat bars running perpendicular at right angles create a bookshelf. The irregular braiding shape changes when viewed from different angles.

This bookshelf made of rubber painted stainless steel. Rubber paint prevents slipping books. The bookshelf make it possible to put 200 books.

Weave / bookshelf
Material: rubber painted stainless steel
Size: W380*D380*H1600

Hollow
Hollow / stool /

Material: painted fiber reinforced plastic

Size: W430*D430*H430

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