The hidden shelf

May 14, 2006

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.

Found via Stylehive.

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Comments

  1. 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.

    — Donna, May 14, 2006

  2. 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 :)

    — Rachel, May 14, 2006

  3. 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.

    — Ohad, May 19, 2006

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