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We Want to Go to There: A House Made of Bookcases

by Alanna Bennett | 11:45 am, June 14th, 2011


Imagine a house, perhaps tucked into some quiet nook in the woods somewhere, where every wall is covered with floor-to-ceiling bookcases.  No more piles of graphic novels and DVDs and classic lit cast sadly around your living room, judging you for not putting it on proper display. Just endless supplies of shelf space, even in the staircases. It’s a hoarder’s dreamland. And for those of use who stalk blogs like Bookcase Porn, it’s like we’ve died and gone to some literature-themed heaven. And now, thanks to the Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio, it exists.

Called the “Shelf-Pod,” the house was commissioned by a client near Osaka, Japan, who owns an extensive collection of books on the subject of Islamic history. He requested that the place be built with with the maximum capacity for their storage and display, and we’re just going to go out on a limb here and say they succeeded on that front.

But can you imagine all the dusting this place would require?

(via Boing Boing)

(Photos via Core77)

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  • Anonymous

    Have to hire a librarian AND a maid. 

  • NarcoSleepy

    Dusting looks like it would be a bitch, and the idea of books in the bathroom?  Moisture is really not so good for them.  It still appeals to the inner OCD book collector in me, however.

  • NarcoSleepy

    Dusting looks like it would be a bitch, and the idea of books in the bathroom?  Moisture is really not so good for them.  It still appeals to the inner OCD book collector in me, however.

  • http://www.facebook.com/1shewolf JoAnna Luffman

    Bathroom library is for garbage books you buy to read in the bathroom, that’s all. That, and storage of bathroom supplies. :)

  • http://twitter.com/KomiIsDrawing Kate Ashwin

    You have no books by the toilet? None at all? :O

  • http://profiles.google.com/viciousmarblecat Emma Jones

    That’s where you keep the magazines to flip through on the john, of course!

  • http://profiles.google.com/viciousmarblecat Emma Jones

    I, too, want to go to there.

  • Toni Swedberg

    My
    husband needs to see this. He had every available wall space in our
    house filled with bookshelves and books for years. No more! I made him
    move them to his garage/shop. If he won’t dust his books, I don’t want
    them in here. Plus no one ever read them, including him!

  • NarcoSleepy

    But the “reading material” pages would all get stuck together!

    Oh wait, maybe that’s not from moisture…

  • NarcoSleepy

    Oddly enough, I don’t.  I try to get in and do my business in the most economical way possible.  Besides, I am something of a book collector and the thought of taking some of those beautiful editions into the bathroom horrifies me. I had a friend that would head to the bathroom with a huge book or comics and stay in there for an hour.

  • kate Fehr

    That first picture looks almost exactly like the boiler room from Spirited Away.

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  • pops radish

    Now where did i put that book?

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  • http://anothernotebook.tumblr.com kalsangikid

    Our dorm had open shelving, and some of the girls would hang sheets of clear plastic over them like curtains. Dusting problem solved.

  • Michele Cox

    If you put doors (glass or plexiglass, of course, so you can see the books) on the shelves, it seriously reduces the amount of dusting necessary.  (The things you learn at Gramma’s house, when Gramma’s house has lead-glass-fronted bookshelves….)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1017472306 Laura England-Biggs

    love love LOVE this idea! as a librarian and bibliophile, i give it two thumbs up :)

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