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meh

Those books would be covered with wine and hummus within 2 months. My friends and I are messy.

its hard to tell but it looks like the legs are kind of a [ shape and the books fit into the side of that?

I could just imagine bumping into the table leg and having the whole stack topple over.

This looks messy.

lame. looks sloppy. books are for reading.

I don't like those stacks of books looking things in general. The illusion is obvious here as it is on those tall bookshelves. At least this way, you can display books of your choice and not ruin them, but I'm sure someone will think it's really funky to drill a rod through a pile of books for an even worse "illusion," those books you can no longer read, and probably have stupid titles based on some idea that books you don't want to read anyway would be the perfect titles to display forever. Also, either of these effects would require an exact measure of books or else the leg will be too short or long, or leave a gap where it looks like the top isn't resting firmly or stay level. It's one of those fast-evaporating clever tricks.

Not.

For a work table (where the books need to be in reach and aren't kept in pristine condition to begin with), yes. Anything with food involved, no.

It's neither, it's a Richard Hutten rip-off

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kLLeYeQqt8M/SBWgnAgDVSI/AAAAAAAABRE/ss6FisVABdc/s400/designboom-www.richardhutten.comjpg.jpg

It's the Emperor's New Clothes of home furnishings. What a joke. As a person with books used for reading, not as decoration this is taking the whole book-as-decor thing too far. Shame on you, Minotti Italia!

*Cringe*

Blueyes, you've said exactly what I wanted to. I hate this trend of "oooh, look at my book collection, look how literate I am." If you were really all that into books, maybe you'd store them in a way that made it easy to find them (ie: not in huge random stacks), and kept them clean and neat.

Hey, call me boring, but bookcases do the trick just fine for me.

But this actual book storage too . . . it's actual shelving. You can still take out books, read them, and put them back. I don't know . . . I have a lot of books so I'm not so put off by it. I mean, I am not in love with it or anything, but not a bad idea. It would be a great place for my many cookbooks.

I am a homeschooler and can really see how this might be nice as a school table. The DIY version of course. We could keep our books in the legs and retrieve them when needed! That would save space on the bookshelves for the fun books.

Seriously AT - stop abusing books! You have a problem! Books don't deserve this!

Really Emmerloulou? You can take out the book on the bottom without the whole stack tumbling?

Besides, books are designed to be stored vertically on a horizontal shelf. Storing them sideways like this compresses the spine and can damage books.

yawn.

I don't think it's brilliant for small space living because I think it's designed to be used in a library, not a dining room, where it would not be so subject to spills. And a small space dweller presumably needs to multi-task the table. But I think it would be fun in a home library, just one more reference to books. I would use it for the books I was currently reading, as opposed to long-term storage. But I would want a less hard edged version.

HORRIBLE! I think I just threw up a little.

Modfan . . . it just LOOKS like it is four stacks of books with a big board on top but there is actual structured shelving. Look at the backsides of the two legs in back - you can see that it is metal frame. Also, notice how there are gaps every couple of books. It is sort of like CB2s Array book shelf (linke below), so often seen here on AT. So no, the table won't topple over, even if you take out every book.

http://www.cb2.com/family.aspx?c=302&f=702&q=array&fromLocation=Search&DIMID=400001&SearchPage=1

This is just damn ridiculous.

Idiotic.

Ok, so it is actually four shelves holding up the table top. that still doesn'tmake me like it. It's more functional than I orignally thought (click on the link, you'll see), but it is ridiculously silly to pay 3,100 bucks for this. I wouldn't even drop 49.99 on it if it were at IKEA.
It's an okay idea, but it should have stayed in the design phase.

I think this idea would be cute as a bedside table

ohhh. Well, I suppose if you don't use the table for anything and don't have any pets, or kids, or drunk pals lurching about it would be okay... In my home those books would be covered in dog hair and red wine.

But I think DC_Chica is right. One short base with a decent top could be a fine night table.

You know where this might be more fun and functional - on a sideboard, and maybe not books, but magazines. I subscribe to several fashion magazines and, since I sew a good number of my own clothes, I like to keep them around in case I want to refer back to them for inspiration.

Since I never go looking for that "August 2006 back issue where they had the ugly purse with a cute front pouch that would be great as a jeans pocket..." having them all out of order wouldn't really be a problem.

Shallower, with magazines only on the front two legs as opposed to all four, might make for a really cute sewing table.

Nice Concept... if a little on the "oh-my-god-that-costs-how-much?" side...Although, I do think it would make an especially nice and affordable DIY bedside table, convenient too since I do a majority of my reading in bed.

this giant clunky idea in a small space? i'd stick with tall bookshelves with a small footprint.