50 Unique and Unconventional Bookcase Designs

The rabbit is already out of the hat, print media  is dying. The truth hurts, but we are vastly sprinting to digital media with cloud computing. The ability to read your favorite book, paper, or magazine virtually is mind boggling. However don’t feel too sad, because great things usually get rediscovered. Take for examples retro/vintage design. It’s a very hot trend that’s widely appreciated among the design community. The same thing is bound to happen with bookcase designs.

When you think of a bookshelf the first picture your mind creates is probably a conventional rectangular shape on the wall that has books inside of it. However the designs we collected today, are completely beyond boring. The designers who created these beautiful masterpieces, had to make sure the books would have room to fit, sturdy enough to withstand weight/ware, and last but not least  be visually attractive.

Your home usually represent and expresses your personality. We all have different taste and find somethings more flattering than others. Make your home a better place to live, by adding a beautiful bookcase. Not only will you be doing yourself a favor, but you would also be making an industrial design statement. You have great taste/class, now it’s your turn to display it!

Without further ado we hope that the following bookcase designs will inspire you in some form of way. Most of the bookcases/bookshelf’s are available for purchase, however others are simply concept ideas that are capable or reality. All of the images are liked to their original source where we originally found them. So if you have possible interest, just click the image and you will be redirected.

1. Twig Twig Bookcase

2. Dedalo Bookcase from Porada

3. Konnex Slot-in Bookcase

4. Read Your Bookcase

5. Book/Staircase

6. Blu Dot Shilf Bookcase

7. Bookcase built into stairs

8. Fitting Pyramid

9. Piniwini

10. Read Book shelf

11. OFO Bookcase Chair

12. Bookshelf by Ron Arad

13. Booktree by Kostas Syrtariotis

14. Dave Pickett – Nook Coffee Table

15. Tatik / chair-bookshelf object

16. Robox Bookshelf

17. Circular Walking Bookshelf by David Garcia

18. Rope Bridge Bookshelf

19. Sinapsi by Sebastian Errazuriz

20. T.Shelf

21. Equilibrium Bookcase by Malaganafrom

22. Tectonic Bookcase

23. Ju Hyeon Oh & Eun-Jee Kim’s Horizontal Bookcase

24. Bookshelf by SuperLimão Studio

25. Modernist Bookshelf