House full of holes by David Hovey
A few years ago architect/builder David Hovey designed and built this house for himself and his family in Winnetka, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Like most of Hovey’s buildings the house is...
View ArticleAvenel Cooperative Housing Project built either for cartoonists or communists
Why can’t cooperative housing look like this more often? The Avenel Cooperative Housing Project in LA’s Silver Lake neighbourhood, supposedly built either for “a bunch of communists” or for a “group of...
View ArticleSleeping with books
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” ~Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7...
View ArticleBooks killing friends
“Tim’s books will fall one day and kill one of his friends.” Click on image to see the photo’s Flickr tags. Courtesy my friends Jonathan and Tim.
View ArticleWalking bookcase by Wouter Scheublin
Walking bookcase by Wouter Scheublin. “The movement is based on the principles of the walking platform devised by 19th century Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev… when pushed, the legs carry the...
View ArticleDIY bookshelf – IKEA hack
Photo © Inter IKEA Systems B.V. 2011 // Livet Hemma IKEA boxes, some with interiors painted, assembled via art clips. Very clever. Via doorsixteen (and the rest of her post contains good material too)....
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