Whether classic, modern, or industrial in style, residential shelving, and bookcase products are typically designed for simplicity, yielding visual importance instead of the household objects they carry. To achieve a level of versatility traditionally associated with custom built-ins, today’s shelving manufacturers seek flexible, modular designs that can fit various residential spaces and which can be easily adjusted, expanded, moved, or reconfigured over time.
Shelving has evolved into a systems product: a buyer can choose to purchase a single shelf or an entire library. Innovative sectional systems are designed to furnish spaces ranging from living rooms to walk-in closets and are conceived both to display and store. Customizable products feature various systems of dividers, drawers, doors, and sliding panels, where elements can be freely positioned in the desired number and at the desired height.
Shelves are fabricated in materials ranging from solid hardwoods to veneered woods, plastics, or metals including steel or bronze. New features are constantly being developed for additional compositional possibilities, increased customization, and to offer a wider variety of finishes and colors. Some systems are wall-fixed, and installed with no visible screws. Others can be supported by ceilings and floors, used to divide spaces in lieu of walls. Several products have no apparent front or back and can function either as a free-standing piece of furniture or set against a wall.
Listed below are ten excellent residential shelving and bookcase products currently on the market:
1. Zenit, Rimadesio
JUMA was commissioned to design a new house on a hill in the Flemish Ardennes. The north side of the plot offers stunning views of the surrounding fields with picturesque church towers in the distance. In contrast wit...
2. 606 Universal, Vitsoe
Located near the Buttes Chaumont park, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, this project consists in the complete renovation of a flat of 47sqm of a modernist housing apartments built in 1969. For this, we rel...
3. Flat C, B&B Italia
In recent years, the Sharon Plain underwent dramatic transformation, and its small villages were reinvented as communities that mix agriculture, orchards, and suburban private houses. At the same time, spatial plannin...
4. USM Haller - Bookshelves, USM Modular Furniture
Barault architects introduce a fusion of contemporary design, diverse materiality and vast texture palette in order to completely redefine and reorganize the interiors of an apartment located in the Athenian suburb of...
5. Loft, Amuneal Manufacturing Corp
A young, dynamic family imagined loft living in a 19th century Georgian brownstone set in the heart of Boston’s historic Back Bay, complete with open entertaining spaces for parties and private living areas for...
6. Eos, Rimadesio
The space designed for a young family, full of optimism and openness to the world, tries to respond to the needs of silence, intimacy, but also energy and motivation to new challenges.
7. As4 System, Atlas Industries
Los Angeles, CA—Architects Annie Barrett (of aanda) and Hye-Young Chung (of HYCArch) have completely transformed an existing Spanish-style house in Los Angeles for a couple anticipating semi-retirement, and the...
8. WOODY, HAY
The original layout of this apartment in the center of Prague had four rooms organized around a large entry vestibule–a typical configuration for this typology of elegant downtown residences. The kitchen, previo...
9. Giostra, Damiano Latini
Light elegance in green. Flussocreativo Design Studio has put its stamp on a house in the outskirts of Brescia, with a refined style, brimming with colours full of energy, just like its owner.
10. Julia Collection, Momocca
Vicente Pons, from Kaleidoscope Interiorismo, transforms a grey and cold house into a warm environment with nature as protagonist.
