Belly Up to the Book Bar, Folks!
Sure, having your own personal library is pretty cool, but you know what would be really amazing? For all you boozin' book-lovers, I present to you ... a book bar!
Ok, so it's not as visually stunning as Idiom, but this is definitely a situation where function precedes form, don't ya think? And what a function!
You can see more photos of the bar being constructed at the Vestal Design Blog. And just how did this book bar come to be? From the Vestal Blog:
One of our non-Vestal housemates worked at the Stanford library, and his job included the task of throwing away old books, which apparently the other librarians couldn't bear to do. We decided to rescue these books from that awful fate - and what better use for them than a bar from which to entertain our frequent guests?
I'll drink to that!
Thanks to Johnny for the link!
Cheers!!
Cool. I want one of those.
Posted by: zhoule | January 20, 2006 at 10:53 AM
i love it! but...what if someone kicks the books or accidentally pushes one out? will it crumble? i visited the vestal blog and they said they used no adhesive. i'm fascinated by this.
Posted by: callie | January 20, 2006 at 01:18 PM
I once saw a bookcase made out of books, I think it was in Vienna. Really old brown books, glued together with thick blabs of polyester or something like that. Stunningly beautiful.
Posted by: eliane | January 20, 2006 at 03:32 PM
Did I tell you that my favourite Dutch writer now has a blog in English?
http://forums.wordswithoutborders.org/?q=ArnonGrunberg
Posted by: eliane | January 20, 2006 at 03:33 PM
Oh my. That's my kind of bar!
Posted by: kimbofo | January 20, 2006 at 05:48 PM
Booklink:
http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2006/01/11/le-corbusier-binds-book-in-dead-pet-dog/#comments
Posted by: eliane | January 21, 2006 at 11:55 AM
That is one truly groovy book bar!
Posted by: Flourish | January 21, 2006 at 12:13 PM
That is incredibly awesome. I would absolutely LOVE to get horribly sloshed at such a bar!
Posted by: Cipriano | January 21, 2006 at 05:58 PM
I suppose you've never heard of MADdeR, mothers against drinking and reading. Seventy two percent of all word and storyline mutilations are a direct result of drinking and reading.
Posted by: Jon | January 22, 2006 at 05:21 PM
My worst nightmare? To get home and find somebody had played *that* trick on me. I almost have a heart attack if somebody puts a drink down next to just *one* of my books. ;-)
Posted by: Walker | January 26, 2006 at 04:10 PM
I've bought this book "Arab Voices Speak to American Hearts" by Samar Dahmash Jarrah a few weeks ago; and I was facscinated by the facts that I read from ordinary Arab citizens. As an American it made me change the way I view Arabs (Muslims and Christians) in the Middle East and it also made me understand more about our foreign policy and Middle East politics.
Posted by: Al | January 28, 2006 at 08:22 AM