The panels do keep dust from accumulating on the spines, though.
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And cats from clawing into the spines, pulling out books and then shredding pages (ask me how I know)
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Now I’m thinking that the lower books would be too deep. How about a back wall for both sheleves, and a long storage drawer behind that, that slides out from the side?
I suppose the slanted top isn’t practical…maybe put a flat top there, with another small sliding drawer on the side?
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Maybe there is a “back wall” that we can’t see?
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Could be, the books on top are pretty far um, forward.
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I think a regular bookshelf that has angled shelves would be more functional for my needs, but i do think this design is neat.
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I agree – the pictured one has a scary knee-bruiser.
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sorry, but i just think it is fugly AF.
non-functional and what?.. brutal minimalism meets Memphis design - without charm, color, or… design?
YMMV.
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Throw in some Mid Century Modern vibe.
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And a bit of Spanish Inquisition.
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I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.
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at least i got a comfy chair.
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Cynical me is in no doubt that some candlemakers deliberately use too thin wicks on too wide candles so that customers burn through them more quickly, wasting much of the wax. How else would the candlemakers keep their heads held high at the late-stage capitalists annual ball?
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With some alteration it could become a stand for reading larger format books
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I’ve seen that setup in train sleeper roomettes, much more recently than 1815.
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I got a big metal lectern-y thing who was a discarded fixture from one of the bookstores where I’d worked. I think my boss had said it had accompanied a vast one-volume encyclopedia. I put it next to my bed, with a big dictionary on it.
Some day it will come down from the top floor, which hasn’t been my bedroom for ages.
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Score! I picked up this little beauty while walking the dog (put out in the garbage on a lawn chair). I was initially drawn to a wooden recipe box and didn’t notice this sitting on top. Then I saw it and said “Holy shit! You’re coming home with me!” Circa 1950 Westclox Moon Beam alarm clock.Although it’s late for Art Deco, it’s definitely Art Deco in style, and I adore all things Deco.
And it still works. Still has the original plug too, which is cracked, so I think I should replace the plug, which is a shame.
I’ve picked up some amazing things by curb shopping; a lot of antiques, including a sousaphone, which I found a good home for with an antique brass instrument collector.
(not mine; this is a random internet image)
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Congrats, that really is a gorgeous piece of rescued garbage!
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I’m amazed by what people throw away. I have a chair that I rescued that may be from the 1720s, and an 1880s Eastlake rocker that my sister ended up taking. And it still rocked just fine.
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