Stepped bookshelves help to divide and characterise this house just outside of Paris, renovated by Italian architect Andrea Mosca. More about Stepped shelving creates extra storage in Bookshelf House by Andrea Mosca
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 about Folkform's Revolving Bookcases designed to make physical books look desirable
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 about Note Design Studio launches Arch modular shelving system for Fogia
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 about Massproductions' Endless shelving doubles as an adjustable room divider
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 about Box-like shelving covers walls in SoNo Arhitekti's Book Centre Trieste shop
Architect David Chipperfield has designed a series of bronze, steel and glass bookshelves and cabinets for his first gallery collaboration with David Gill. More about David Chipperfield presents cabinets referencing Greek architecture at David Gill Gallery
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 about Wooden gridshell by Anagrama forms shelves inside a Mexico library
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 about Nikken Space Design's office in Osaka features a bleacher-style bookcase
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 about Sebastian Bergne's Fiction bookstand creates the illusion of floating books
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 about Davide G Aquini's furniture collection is clad in boat decking
The London design brand founded by ex-Established & Sons design director Mark Holmes has released its first piece of furniture – a shelving unit made of 33 precision-milled metal bars (+ slideshow). More about Minimalux launches Hash grid shelving unit
Israeli designer Ron Gilad has added a modular shelving system and an oval table to his TT furniture collection, which features surfaces that appear to hover unsupported within a metal frame. More about Ron Gilad designs shelves that seem to float in metal frames
Our new Pinterest board features a number of storage designs, including staircases that double as bookshelves, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's Corniches shelves and a writing desk in the form of a life-sized mule. See our new storage Pinterest board»
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Product news: Dutch designer Reinier de Jong has scaled down his extendable REK Bookcase so it can be used by children to store books and toys. More about REK Bookcase Junior by Reinier de Jong
The shelves in this furniture by design graduate Emiel Remmelts only stay up thanks to concrete blocks, bricks, a glass vase and magazine file boxes propping up one end. More about Stacked Objects by Emiel Remmelts
This expanding shelving unit by Austrian designer Stephanie Hornig can bunch up or stretch out depending on how much space you have. More about Set expanding shelving by Stephanie Hornig
Milan 2013: London design duo Raw Edges came up with a bookcase shaped like a weaving loom to display novels by young British writers. More about Bloom by Raw Edges
Japanese studio Nendo have designed a zig-zagging wooden bookshelf (+ slideshow). More about Fold by Nendo for Conde House
Product news: this extendable bookcase by Dutch designer Reinier de Jong, which became one of our most popular stories ever after we published the prototype in 2008, has now gone into production. More about REK bookcase by Reinier de Jong
Walls of books fold around a wooden staircase in this renovation and extension to a north London home by Hackney studio Platform 5 Architects. More about Book Tower House by Platform 5 Architects