Gorgeous.

Since this is a blog for small spaces I say that this piece takes up way too much room for it's purpose. I mean, just a small handful of books would fit in this piece. Nice looking but useless, IMHO.

Is it my turn to ask why designers hate books? Is it? Is it?

Anne's right, alas: that looks like it holds the equivalent of one shelf's worth of books in a normal bookcase.

I'm thinking about this for stereo components and little pull out drawers/boxes for your stashes of whatever. I think it's a lovely patchwork quilt of a design. What might be the price in US$?

For books, no. But for lots of different kinds, colors, and shapes of stationery? Maybe. Or a really complicated In/Out box.

AH, my collection of 5-years worth of Artforums, Wallpapers, Readymade, etc etc would finally find a home in this "bookcase"...as opposed to just being unsightly stacks in my living room.

Here's a rough translation to English from the Babelfish tool:

Babel is the first cupboard in spring collection, devised in 2005. Babel exists from a modular system and is multipurpose; he can serve piece of furniture, book cupboard as sidetable, TV or as room divider. Above all Babel striking and a particular object in each space is! The cupboard is built modules, he who of 15 mm birches are plywood composed. The basis module (A) is 62 cm high, module b and c each 31 cm. Each module has a fixed classification with horizontal legplanken. There a desired altitude can be turned, into a maximum altitude of 185 cm. The cupboard is always 150 cm broad and 30 cm deeply. At the modules loose block-systems are provided, which one can place to own insight in the cupboard. It is important, however, that the block-systems jump; this reinforces the construction of the cupboard. The kopse to square of birches plywood in Babel is white and onbehandeld. All legplanken have been bilaterally held with frosted, slijtvaste plastic low, deliverable in 2 colours: * blank * warm anthracite.

Thanks, SFCasey. Funny translation.