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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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  • http://www.donnavitan.com Donna

    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.

  • http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

    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 :)

  • http://ohad-news.blogspot.com Ohad

    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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