Before you get too excited, this is only an art piece and not in production - but feel free to get excited about the design! We love maps so a 3-D representation really floats our boat. Curiously titled ‘Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends,’ (which musical fans will recognize from Oklahoma!) the bookshelf is part of artist Ron Arad's exhibition...
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I love this, and the Englishman Alistair Cook would have loved it too. He wrote extensively about America, and kept his library books shelved in the same way. Books about California, Alaska, and Hawaii on the left---books about Florida in the bottom right corner, Texas bottom center, et cetera.
i LOVE this