slotted bookshelf

February 18, 2010

San Francisco designers Mike and Maaike have created a shelf with slots specifically cut to house seven seminal books about power and society.

Cool stuff, even if Plato’s Republic, is really more about the human soul than it is society (well, sort of).

posted by Andrew Simone in books, design | * | 2 comments

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Amanda Mae Meyncke on February 18th, 2010 at 12:32 pm

Most people will think on it as a book about society. A few will consider the implications of the just man.
Cindy Scroggins on February 18th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

And still others will think it’s written by a cartoon dog.

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