Modern Bookcase: Design Furniture that Fills the Home

One of the furnishings that cannot be missing in a contemporary living room is a modern bookcase, which with its ability to completely or partially cover a wall, manages to give an intellectual aspect to our living room.

The modern bookcase can be an extremely functional design furniture because it allows you to store our collection of books and magazines, as well as frames and various furnishings: moreover, modern bookcases do not have that “heavy” aspect typical of solid wooden bookcases of the past because nowadays we tend to make them through the combination of several materials such as wood, metal or glass. The advantage of combining various materials in the creation of a modern bookcase precisely lies in the result, which has its strength in the lightness and ability to adapt to any type of space.

We just have to find out which are the bookcases that most of all meet the requirements of lightness and modernity.

Fiam: the modern modular Inori bookcase

The first brand to offer a really interesting modern bookcase is Fiam, a brand synonymous with experience, innovative design and excellent quality. Fiam therefore creates the modern Inori bookcase, conceived by Japanese designers Setsu and Shinobu Ito, who have focused everything on the visual balance and versatility of this design furniture.

Inori, we said, is a functional and modular bookcase because it can have many souls, depending on our needs. Indeed, based on how we want to use it in our living room, Inori can also be an exhibitor, container or TV stand: if you are wondering if it is a gamble to use it as a TV stand, you should know that Inori has been designed to have a carrying capacity on the very high top.

The structure of this bookcase is nothing more than a system composed of glass or wood elements that can be fixed to the wall or self-supporting. All the uprights can be freely positioned on each top thanks to an anchoring and sliding rail system.

The finishes that Fiam makes available for this design furniture are many, namely:

• transparent
• extralight
• smoked
• bronze
• smoked black back painted
• extralight white back painted
• extralight back painted
• glass in extralight matt lacquered etched finish
• glossy lacquered ebony wood
• “Old” oak wood

Albatros Tonin Casa: the modern bookcase you’ve been waiting for

In terms of lightness and originality in design, Tonin Casa brand is certainly no exception. The modern Albatros bookcase can be defined as a game of geometries, where triangles and straight lines naturally intersect, forming a linear composition that is absolutely out of the ordinary for a modern bookcase.

Its supporting structure is in wood ̶ a choice of Canaletto walnut, dark oak and black ash ̶ while the shelves are in metal, solid and available in elegant and warm shades such as:

• matt white
• matt black
• stone bronze
• agata pink

This design furniture effortlessly adapts to those purely modern living rooms, but also to open spaces with an industrial or Scandinavian style.

Harlem, the modern bookcase by Cattelan Italia

Made to be the protagonist of the wall, the modern Harlem bookcase by Cattelan Italia has nothing to do with the classic square bookcase, which imposingly stands on the wall. Harlem is the design furniture especially conceived for those who wish to go outside from the schemes and at the same time, furnish the living room with an exclusive design furniture of undisputed quality.

Harlem is characterized by intersecting lines, which give life to perfect geometries, which in turn form a geometric figure. Its structure is made of wood. It supports 4 metal shelves: the latter ̶ available in matte white, matte black, stone bronze and painted agata pink ̶ perfectly combine with the wood, releasing and diffusing harmony into the surrounding space.

Rain Bonaldo bookcase: a functional design furniture

The geometries represent the common thread that guided us in choosing the bookcases featured in this article. It is no coincidence that this fourth modern bookcase also conveys a strong sense of balance, without being banal at the same time. This is Rain by Bonaldo, which shows itself in all its simplicity given by the lines and the play of contrasts, albeit delicate, between the metal structure and the wooden shelves.

Aesthetics are obviously one of Rain’s strong points, but certainly not the only one, given that its versatility allows it to be placed impeccably even in areas of the house other than the living room, such as the entrance, office or a clearly visible corridor.

As already mentioned, Rain has a painted metal structure available in the finishes:

• matt anthracite grey
• matt dove grey
• brown in matt finish
• matt black
• matt copper
• brass in matt finish

The veneered wood shelves are instead available in the finishes:

• Canaletto walnut
• Anthracite grey brushed oak

Zigzag Driade: hyper resistant combination

Last, but certainly not least, is the modern Zigzag bookcase by Driade, with a young and fresh personality, qualities even more accentuated by its apparent lightness: apparent because in reality this design furniture is very solid, considering that Driade wanted to combine wood and metal, different materials, but united by a strong resistance.

As for the colours, there is a variety of available shades for the metal parts including black, white, bronze and polished steel, which intersect with the wooden shelves, also available in oak or American walnut.

A gem of this design furniture are the bookends, available in the same colours as the other metal parts, which help to arrange and keep the books placed on its shelves in position.

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