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Built-in and Rotating Bookshelves at the Franz Kafka Society Center

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The pictures of the newly renovated Franz Kafka Society Center in Prague left us swooning for a built-in bookshelf budget of our own. Designed by architects Steven Holl and Marcela Steinbachová, the library space is completely defined by bookshelves — including shelves that rotate 360 degrees, offering access to even more bookshelves...

 
 

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The library houses Kafka's personal collection of books. Check out more information on the Society Center and more pictures of the space (including sketches and plans at dezeen. Via: dezeen.

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"Put za candle back!"

posted by Melinda on 2008-06-16 16:06:07
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OK -- I need some of those rotating bookshelf things to deal with mine. Love my books. Sometimes hate having them all out in the open.

posted by dblitz1 on 2008-06-16 16:36:52
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Beautiful!
Does anyone know a good carpenter around New York City that can build shelves like these (not the swiveling ones and all that jazz... don't have THAT many books).

posted by Ian B on 2008-06-16 16:56:40
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LOL - Melinda!

posted by bepsf on 2008-06-16 18:38:57
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i'm all aflutter! i want to move right in.

ian b, in ny you should check out set-design shops at some of the smaller, off-broadway theatres and see if there's a starving artist who could do this for you!

posted by pinko on 2008-06-16 20:16:26
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