Beautiful REK bookcase grows with your library

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Beautiful REK bookcase grows with your library

14:20 February 9, 2012

The REK bookcase by designer and architect Reiner de Jong is an elegantly designed bookcase that can be configured to accommodate a book collection of any size

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The beautiful REK bookcase by Rotterdam-based designer and architect Reiner de Jong is an elegantly designed unit that can be configured to accommodate a book collection of any size with a minimum of wasted space.

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The case is actually composed of five discrete parts that fit perfectly together to form a solid block. One, some, or all can be pulled out to accommodate the size of the book collection. At full stretch the REK is a matrix of cubby holes of varying heights (the pieces would not stand freely on their own, requiring each other for support).

The REK stands 202 cm (80 in.) tall, 36 cm (14 in.) deep and at maximum stretch is 228 cm (90 in.) wide.

The bookshelf can be ordered directly from the designer. Prices are available on request, so we expect the REK does not come cheap - and that's before accounting for shipping costs out of the Netherlands.

Source: Reiner de Jong via Boing Boing

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James Holloway
James is a graduate of the Open University, with a B.Sc. in Technology and a Diploma in Design and Innovation. After a decade in building design engineering, he side-stepped into writing about green tech and the environment. When not clattering about the web, he listens to early 90s hip hop, writes bad haiku and ponders the merits of an English three-man seam attack.

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User Comments (3)

I think a better heading for the product would be:

"Fits any size space you have"

Why get a custom size when this one will fit for everyone....

Dennis - February 9, 2012 @ 03:58 pm PST

A nice piece of art ... but it would appear to fail as a functional expandable bookcase.

Remember: if you're going to "expand" it, that presumes empty space on one side

or the other. If you had that empty space, it's either been filled already by other

things or you could have had two ordinary bookcases there all along for much less.

I think Dennis' approach is better: think of it as a generic bookcase where you don't

need to measure (much) ahead of time. It will fit into whatever space is available (assuming a minimum, of course) ... you won't be expanding it later, in most cases.

Stan Sieler - February 10, 2012 @ 02:45 pm PST

With tape measures being so scarce, expensive, and hard to use, this one-size-fits-many approach will be a real winner. Of course, 26% of the unit is devoted to structure when fully expanded, a greater percentage when not. And the useability factor of some of the shelf sizes may be rather low. And there is no back. It is innovative, and a very interesting architectural piece. It is not designed for utility, but for visual impact.

Bruce H. Anderson - February 15, 2012 @ 07:21 am PST