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The hidden shelf

May 14 2006
by Rachel

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I’m really loving this award-winning hidden shelf from Umbra:

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The entire shelf is hidden once full of books - letting the books themselves become almost an artpiece (certainly not something you’d want in an earthquake-prone area, or near little kids). I love that the shelf does its job while being so invisible.

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your thoughts

Donna

May 14 2006

That is the neatest thing. Is the first book attached? Because it would be more interesting if you could and have a bunch of floating art.

Floating DVD stacks? Meh, not as pretty.

Rachel

May 14 2006

Sorry should have explained it properly - there’s two tiny hidden clasps which hold the bottom books cover up against the shelf. So there’s no fake books in the stack :)

Ohad

May 19 2006

Wow, this is really cool.
It’s a very nice design item but probably not practical to someone like me who has hundreds of books.

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