Biblios Bookcase
There is a particular kind of room — a Paris flat in the seventh, perhaps, or a library borrowed for the afternoon — where the books matter and the case that holds them is expected to know it. Biblios was drawn for that room. It was among the first pieces I designed in the spirit of French Moderne, the 1930s vocabulary of Chareau and Frank in which industrial materials are admitted to domestic life without apology: half-inch solid aluminum shelves passing through ebonized mahogany verticals, the wood blackened and grain-tight, the metal flat and bright and frankly structural. The shelves do not rest on the verticals; they intersect them — locked through — so that the case reads as a single drawn line in two materials.
It is a quiet piece, in the way Moderne is quiet: severe in profile, generous in proportion. The narrowest version, 35″ wide and 87″ tall, takes eight shelves and slips against a wall like a tall ladder; the largest, at 54″ wide and 90″, holds the wall and asks nothing further of the room. Biblios is offered in twenty-seven woods, from pale ash to the deepest blackened mahogany, and can be drawn to any dimension a library requires.
Dimensions
35’’ W x 7” D x 87’’ H - 8 shelves
48” W x 10” D x 84” H - 6 shelves
54” W x 10” D x 90” H - 6 shelves
The Biblios can be made to custom dimensions.
Materials
Wood: 27 woods from light to dark and several specialty finishes
Metal: Aluminum
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