The Design Bookcase: Wall and Freestanding Solutions

The design bookcase is a versatile piece of furniture, not only because it allows you to store books, magazines and place small objects, but also because it can be used as a tool for dividing rooms. There are different types of design bookcases on the market, made of many materials, sometimes combined with each other with amazing results.

The classic wall bookcase, an essential element in stylish living rooms, bedrooms or offices, and the freestanding bookcase. Wall-mounted ones are of many sizes, depending on the needs and often cover the entire wall of a partition. Instead, the freestanding bookcase is widely used when architects and interior designers have to cope with the needs of dividing an environment, without resorting to partitions or walls, perhaps for a better fluidity of the space.

Indeed, we see more and more houses characterized by a large living area, which often includes living room and dining area. So, how to gently divide one area of an open space from the other? With a nice freestanding bookcase! You just have to discover the most interesting design bookcases that we at Arredare Moderno have carefully selected.

Tripodio Bonaldo design bookcase

Let’s start with a model that expresses all its elegance when placed on the wall: Tripodio design bookcase by Bonaldo. It is mainly characterized by pure and simple lines, able to be placed in modern room and not only. The structure of this bookcase is in metal, available in the following matt finishes:

• white painted
• black painted
• anthracite grey painted
• dove grey painted
• lead painted
• bronze painted
• copper finish
• messing finish

Tripodio wall bookcase combines the metal structure with horizontal shelves in Canaletto walnut and, despite being light from an aesthetic point of view, it has been designed to withstand large quantities of books, magazines and furnishings. Finally, we can say that this bookcase expresses its maximum practicality if placed on the wall, to which it can be fixed using special hooks.

Design bookcase Fifty Cattelan italia

Still remaining among the wall bookcase proposals, we propose Fifty design bookcase by Cattelan Italia, an example of furniture that knows how to amaze the observer. In spite of its being simple and minimal, this wall bookcase is modular, consisting of a module with 5 horizontal shelves. Thanks to these, other parts of different widths can be composed, stimulating the imagination and satisfying all space requirements.

Available in two different colours and equipped with hooks, Fifty bookcase Cattelan Italia creates a refined and classy corner in the living room, or in any environment in which it is placed.

As for the structure on which the tops are supported, it is available in different finishes

• bronze
• white
• graphite

Equipped with hooks above and below, Fifty design bookcase is made in the following sizes:

L. 50 x D. 25.5 x H. 214 cm.

Venus Driade freestanding bookcase

Made by the designer Fabio Novembre Venus Driade design bookcase is an ideal freestanding bookcase for those who want to furnish the living room following the classic style or to give a touch of classicism to a modern space.

The first detail that catches the eye of the observer is certainly the sculpture depicting Venus, hence the name of the furniture itself: it is made of white recomposed marble, so as to create a contrast effect with the natural oak that characterizes the structure.

Not only that, thanks to its 5 shelves, it is possible to arrange books and so on in an orderly manner. The sizes of Venus bookcase are: L. 100 cm x D. 50 cm x H. 190 cm.

Paradigma freestanding bookcase Tonelli Design

Considered as a freestading bookcase Paradigma Tonelli Design bookcase was designed to give a touch of modernity to the living area or a work space. Thanks to the refined design, Paradigma is perfect for delicately dividing one area from another, in the presence of large rooms or open spaces.

This design bookcase has numerous shelves, on which you can place books and everything you want to exhibit or need to have at hand. The interlocking geometric component is made of thin sheet metal in the shape of an arc or circle. Its composition, on the other hand, was made with sides and shelves in extra-clear glass or smoked glass, combined with an arch or circle structure, available in brushed bronze or brushed black.

There are two sizes of Paradigma bookcase, namely:

Model A – L. 173 cm x D. 40 cm x H. 230 cm

Model B – L. 177 cm x D. 40 cm x H. 167 cm

Forty Five Tomasucci wall bookcase

Presented in all its practicality and absolute modernity of the lines: this is Forty Five Tomasucci design bookcase. It is a wall bookcase, which can also be used freestanding, depending on the space where we want to place it. This bookcase has unique shapes, which allow it to integrate into any type of environment and furniture. Thanks to its meliminic structure, Forty Five is very sturdy, capable of withstanding heavy loads, by virtue of the fact that it is a double-sided bookcase.

The structure of Forty Five design bookcase is made with ecological panels of wood particles inclined at 45 °, covered with melamine in an open-pore white pine finish. The useful sizes of each compartment are 30×30 cm while those of Forty Five freestanding bookcase are L.141.4 x D.30 x H.163.3.

Would you like to know more? Read Modern bookcase: design furniture that fills the home.