Bookshelf of the Week: ‘Berlin Bookcase’

If you’ve been following my Bookshelf of the Week feature for a while now then you may remember back in 2008 I featured a rather odd shot of a bookcase bolted to the outside of an apartment block in Tallinn, Estonia. Well for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week I feature an equally enigmatic [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto

If ever there was a bookshelf shot that exemplified the awesomeness of books then this is assuredly it (well there’s actually this one too which is of equal standing, but the one chosen for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week offers a bit more detail in its smaller presented size).
This is a shot – captured [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: The Billy Bookcase Bondi Beach Bash

On Sunday 31st January, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of its Billy Bookcase, the creatives at Ikea descended upon the famous Bondi Beach in Australia, and planted 30 of their famous bookcases in the sand. They then filled the bookcases with books and invited surfers, swimmers and sun worshipers to come along and [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: Nacho Polo’s vision in white

The thing about professional interior designers is that they’re usually a bit flash and flamboyant with their room designs aren’t they? Nothing wrong with that of course, but imagine my surprise when I stumbled across one lately, from Florida designer Nacho Polo, where the interior design was most definitely flash and flamboyant while at the [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: Library of Parliament Reading Room

Last week we had a bit of cafe chic with the Cafe Kafka, Warsaw, so for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week I thought we’d get all prestigious and governmental with this magnificent shot from Alejandro Erickson of the main reading room of the Library of Parliament in Ottawa, Canada.
Apparently modelled after the Reading [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: Cafe Kafka

From indoor cosy to outdoor practical, and opulently historical to cutting-edge modern, I think we’ve pretty much covered everything on Bookshelf of the Week. But one thing we’ve never broached upon is the shivery subject of arthropods. Now before you run away squealing, looking for a suitable place to hide (preferably bug-free) I should explain. [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: Pete’s Delicious Discovery

Now while you can normally thank me and my Web crawling efforts for the finds featured on Bookshelf the Week, this week I have to give all the discovery credit to my good Twitter friend, Peter Weller. “This might interest you,” tweeted Pete in a message one day. Interest me Pete?!? This is probably as [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: Bratislavan Bibliophile

There’s not a lot of detail about the subject for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week – other than it was taken in Bratislava, by fiction writer Michal Hvorecky – but I don’t think it really needs any. With books flowing from wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling, and even spilling out to the next room, this [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: Libreria San Gines, Madrid

It’s another ‘outdoor’ bookshelf, but I really couldn’t resist!

Bookshelf of the Week: Interior shot of the Humboldt-Universität

For this week’s Bookshelf of the Week I chose this rather sumptuous shot of the interior of Berlin’s oldest university, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, as taken by Jacqueline Poggi.
To be more exact (and assuming my rudimentary German is up to scratch), the caption would suggest that this is a shot taken inside the Brothers [...]

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