Books to Go: Modular Shelving for Multi-Use Space
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 10.10.07
A solution for those who move a lot, for people who are really on the go, or for anyone who changes the function of their living space with regularity (with a Murphy bed, let's say), Books to Go is a handy, modular bookshelf by UK designer Rose Cobb. Adding a combination vice/handle and wheels (isn't everything better on wheels?) to a more traditional bookcase adds easy moving functionality to the normally static, dust-collection shelf.
We could see this working well for small apartment dwellers and fans of multi-use living rooms everywhere. Contact the designer for more info on the wheeled wonder. ::Rose Cobb (site under construction) via ::Yanko Design
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Is there some sort of hardware you could buy to make your won screw in brace thingee? The boxes would be easy.
Is this how reader's digest makes their condensed books?
Seems like an excessive amount of additional materials required just to turn a box on it's side... Then with this big handle, you loose some of the functionality of what would be the top of the case, like you can no longer put a plant on it.. I guess when the handle is on the side, it would also take up a bit more room than the shelf without a handle would
But hey, it could be good in earthquake prone areas...
I love this! I'm forever short of storage for books (mostly second hand, obviously), and whenever my storage expands, I have to go find some heavy object or another to keep the books upright. But a vice! It's brilliant.
This is the most perfect item of furniture (for me) that I have ever seen. This would have saved me so many countless hours of extra work during all of my many moves and rearrangements. I want one (many) and I want it now.
I always just used those square crates (like milk crates but purchased from office supply stores). A since they are square they don't hold many books so you stack them in rows and columns. When you move just lay them on their bottom/back and pick them up and go.
I always wonder on these space saving things... how is it green? is it made with green materials?
but maybe I'm just nit picking...