Hasta La Ideas

Shay Carmon and Ben Klinger, of Israel-based Studio Ve, have designed a new series of clever shelves that preserve the material convention of wooden planks and steel bookends while proposing new shelving arrangements.

For example, the Eli Shelf, pictured first, stands on end, for “the pile of standby books, always waiting to be returned to the shelf.” The Newton shelf, pictured second, holds a special, favorite book within the plank, “defying gravity.”

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