Novel Ideas: Books as Furniture & Functional Décor
By Steph in Art & Design , Home & Garden Unloved and unwanted, millions of books are sent to landfills when their text is no longer valuable in itself; the glue in the spine makes them difficult to recycle. But shift their function from repositories for words and pictures to physical building blocks for furniture and décor, and suddenly they once again become desirable objects. These 14 bookcases, stools, lamps, vases, counters and even planters give old books a new life. Counters & Desks (images via: the design files , inhabitat ) Stacked and covered with a countertop, books make a surprisingly strong – and beautiful – basis for a desk or counter. Bookstore Brunswick Bound in Melbourne built a relatively small one, while Delft University went big and colorful for the front desk of its architectural library. The books in the latter were actually salvaged when a devastating fire in the Architecture building destroyed most of the ...