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Like it or not, frame clusters have made a comeback! Inspired by this ubiquitous trend, the Frames Wall shelving system combines nested squares and rectangles of various sizes into a wall-mounted structure that’s ideal for storing books. The design pictured here is made of lacquered black medium density fiberboard but has potential to be easily customized in a variety of materials and finishes for the perfect fit to any style room or wall.

Designer: Gerard de Hoop

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Steel tubes are pinched together at intervals then slotted into corresponding grooves in plywood planks to create this shelving system by graduate designer Arttu Kuisma.

The In a Pinch system comes flat-packed and is erected without screws or fixings simply by slotting a pole into the shelves at each corner.

A cabinet can be created by slotting aluminium panels into grooves in the surface of the plywood.

“The project has been a material-driven search of simplicity and functionality,” says Kuisma. “In A Pinch is based on a single structural detail that determines how the shelf is manufactured, assembled and what it looks like.”

“It’s easy to assemble and solid enough to carry around without taking it apart.”

Kuisma had the idae while studying at Lahti University of Applied Sciences.

See his seating project made from rolled-up carper in our earlier story.

Photos are by Timo Laaksonen.

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Estudio Carme Pinós have designed their first furniture collection, including various styles of modular shelving and a wardrobe that hangs freely from the wall.

The Barcelona-based studio have created 11 pieces for the Objects collection, including a shelf with a hanging rail fixed underneath for clothes storage.

There are also angular shelves inspired by the metal supports for trestle tables and U-shaped shelves which complement the black and white side tables.

A wardrobe affixed to the wall floats free from the ground, with shelves and a hanging rail concealed behind the door.

New technology such as 3D cutting allowed the studio to localise production and the collection has been manufactured entirely in Spain.

Carme Pinós has won a number of architectural awards, including the National Prize for Architecture for the Escuela Hogar in Morella in 2005. She is currently working on the Caixaforum arts and cultural centre in Zaragoza and a departmental building for the University of Economics in Vienna.

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Here’s some more information from the studio:

Estudio Carme Pinós presents their first furniture collection

Named OBJECTS, it is composed of versatile pieces that are easy to assemble. The collection is sold exclusively on-line, has been manufactured entirely in Spain and features the architect’s flair for creating extremely light yet solid structures.

Barcelona, July, 2012.  Architect Carme Pinós has presented her collection OBJECTS, eleven pieces of furniture and shelving elements that are true to the spirit of the project – functional, attractive pieces at an accessible price.

According to Pinós, the project was born out of her – and her friends – everyday needs. With this as a starting point, her studio started working on a wardrobe that “hung on the wall in order to give a feeling of spaciousness”, a shelf that “could also be used to hang clothes on, like you sometimes see in a guest room” and “trestle supports, like you see used with typical trestle tables, but incorporated into an bookshelf.”

During the presentation, Pinós commented that she has also drawn from early 20th century designers by applying new technology, such as cutting in 3D. In this way, she has been able to localize production and the pieces can be transported and assembled with ease.

The OBJECTS are sold exclusively online through the web: www.objects.es. In addition, the pieces can be viewed at the Objects showroom in Barcelona’s Gràcia neighborhood (C/ Sant Pere Mártir, 28). Pinós aims to increase the collection with additional pieces from diverse design fields, such as a versatile bag and an original salt dispenser.

Carme Pinós is one of Spain’s most award-winning architects. In 2005, she was presented with the National Prize for Architecture for the Escuela Hogar in Morella, and the first prize at the Bienal Española de Arquitectura for the ‘Cube’ Office Towers in Guadalajara (México). In the same year she won the National Architecture Prize presented by the Generalitat (autonomous government) of Catalunya. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects and is currently working on projects that include the Caixaforum arts and cultural centre in Zaragoza and a departmental building for the new Vienna Campus.

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Milan 2012: Austrian designer Robert Stadler will present a bookshelf that separates the books you’ve finished from those you haven’t read yet at Galleria Nilufar in Milan next week. 

Made from an aluminium composite, the shelf is folded into the shape of a W to create the two pockets that hold the books.

A computer-controlled machine manages the manufacturing so that each shelf can be cut, folded and engraved in a single process.

See more projects by Robert Stadler here and see all our coverage of Milan 2012 here.

Here’s some more text from the designer:

“Transitory bookshelf”, 2011 by Robert Stadler

“Transitory bookshelf” points out a well known dilemma – books are piling up at home because we lack time to read them. This object combines two inclined platforms which help us to handle the situation : the “read!” section reminds us that we should take time to read; the “read.” section’s purpose is to digest books we have recently read before they disappear into the jungle of our main bookshelf. With its form, the Origami-like object reminds us a folded envelope. “Transitory bookshelf” is made out of 4 mm Alupanel®, an aluminium composite. The object is cut out, incised for folding and engraved by a CAD controlled machine in just one single process. “Transitory bookshelf” stacks and becomes extremely rigid once glued together.

“Transitory bookshelf” will be presented at the “Unlimited” show at Galleria Nilufar / Milano.

Opening on Monday 16 april.

Dezeen in Israel: designer Chanan de Lange exhibits two circular library bookshelves made from recycled school desks at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Around 20,000 books can be stored on the wooden shelves, which are fixed at different angles onto supporting metal columns.

Books can only fit onto the structure face down, so that the text on each spine is correctly orientated.

The library installation is on show inside the museum’s new wing, the Herta and Paul Amir Building, which we featured on Dezeen last week – see our earlier story here.

You can also find out more about design from Israel in our special feature.

Photography is by Ariel Caine.

Here’s some more text from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art:

Chanan de Lange: Ex Libris

“Ex Libris” is a library composed of two rounded objects, capable of storing 20,000 books.

The work raises questions about the manner and “ease” of a book’s placement on a shelf and about the visitor/user’s progress through the space defined by the library.

The book accompanying the exhibition presents numerous libraries designed by De Lange throughout the years – private and public libraries, some of which are functional and some display objects – and points out the material, formal and technological connections between them.

Agnes and Beny Steinmetz Wing for Architecture and Design, Gallery 1, the Herta and Paul Amir Building

Curated by Maya Vinitsky (book)