TAO converts huge Beijing warehouse into moody office and exhibition space
Towering steel bookcases divided up this warehouse building in Beijing, which Trace Architecture Office converted into an office for a local magazine publisher. More
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Jasper Morrison designs shelf that grows with your book collection
Jasper Morrison has teamed up with publisher Penguin to create a shelf that clamps books together and expands to accommodate a growing collection. More
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Study takes centre stage in bookshelf-lined apartment in Shanghai
Atelier TAO+C has renovated a top-floor apartment in one of the earliest high-rise residential buildings in Shanghai, adding bookshelves all around its perimeter. More
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Opendesk launches shelf and desk that can both be assembled tool-free
Open-source furniture brand Opendesk has collaborated with designers in London and Chicago to create new two pieces of furniture that can be assembled without glue, screws or hinges. More
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Sou Fujimoto designs hybrid bookshelf and chair for Alias
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto's Bookchair slots in and out of its surrounding shelving to double as both storage and seating. More
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Sou Fujimoto creates ornate bookshelves for Basel installation
Architect Sou Fujimoto has designed a series of abstract bookshelves made from thin steel rods, which he based on 19th-century ironwork. More
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Studio Job designs limited-edition furniture for Gufram's new collectible range
A brick punchbag and a smoke-topped table are among the limited-edition pieces designed by Studio Job for Gufram's new range aimed at the "most demanding collectors". More
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10 shelving designs that are perfect for book lovers
Today is World Book Day. To mark the occasion we've rounded up 10 of the best ways designers have stored books, from bookshelf staircases to a huge concrete case that spans the wall of a Mexico City home. More
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Giant bookcase forms centrepiece of Shanghai sales office by Team_Bldg
A solid timber staircase is suspended from one side of a huge double-storey bookcase inside this sales office located on the outskirts of Shanghai. More
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Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernandez pair rough concrete with crazy paving for their Mexico City home
The Mexico City home and studio of Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes and his fashion-designer wife Carla Fernandez features crazy paving floors, as well as a staircase and double-height library rendered in coarse concrete. More
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Stepped shelving creates extra storage in Bookshelf House by Andrea Mosca
Stepped bookshelves help to divide and characterise this house just outside of Paris, renovated by Italian architect Andrea Mosca. More
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Folkform's Revolving Bookcases designed to make physical books look desirable
Stockholm 2016: responding to the rise of digitalised texts and e-reader devices, Swedish design duo Folkform has created a set of revolving units for presenting "increasingly desirable" physical books. More
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Note Design Studio launches Arch modular shelving system for Fogia
Stockholm 2016: Sweden-based Note Design Studio has created a collection of shelves for furniture brand Fogia that feature half-moon shapes created by bent wooden supports. More
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Massproductions' Endless shelving doubles as an adjustable room divider
Stockholm 2016: Stockholm designer Chris Martin's shelving system for Swedish brand Massproductions comes as individual units that can be linked together as many times as necessary (+ slideshow). More
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Box-like shelving covers walls in SoNo Arhitekti's Book Centre Trieste shop
Slovenian studio SoNo Arhitekti has lined a book store in Trieste, Italy, with floor-to-ceiling stacks of shelves in patterns that reference the architecture of a local landmark (+ slideshow). More
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David Chipperfield presents cabinets referencing Greek architecture at David Gill Gallery
Architect David Chipperfield has designed a series of bronze, steel and glass bookshelves and cabinets for his first gallery collaboration with David Gill. More
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Wooden gridshell by Anagrama forms shelves inside a Mexico library
Mexican firm Anagrama has installed a dome of interlocking wood panels at a library in Monterrey, creating bookshelves that arch over a stepped reading area (+ slideshow). More
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Nikken Space Design's office in Osaka features a bleacher-style bookcase
The Osaka office of Nikken Sekkei's interior design studio features a bookcase conceived as a "stand in a stadium" – the latest example of the trend for bookshelf staircases in both home and office interiors (+ slideshow). More
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Sebastian Bergne's Fiction bookstand creates the illusion of floating books
Books stored on this metal stand by London designer Sebastian Bergne hide the supporting structure so they appear to prop each other up or hover in midair depending on the angle of the shelf (+ slideshow). More
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Davide G Aquini's furniture collection is clad in boat decking
Wood panels used for the floors of Venice's ubiquitous water taxis surround a bookcase and a coffee table by Italian designer Davide G Aquini (+ slideshow). More
