San Francisco designers Mike and Maaike have created a shelf with slots specifically cut to house seven seminal books about power and society. I don’t know how many of you will find this idea useful, because this shelf can hold as you can see only seven books. Called Juxtaposed: Power, the piece is the second in a series of bookshelves for Californian gallery Blankblank, the first of which held works on religion. The idea looks good at a first glance, offers you some space to store other interesting home accessories that you might have, but for an avid reader is useless. The price of this shelf is for the super rich ( $3000 ), but the idea could be replicated for less than $3000 easily. I’m wondering how much would you pay for this shelf ?
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i would pay 50$ for that..i can do it on my own for even less lol
The design isinteresting and different,I like it.Of course extremely specific and limiting. I would pay $3000 for that…and not $50 either…because I can make it I would pay about $20 MAX!!
Actually 32 hours is about what would go into this. At $95 per hour the price is $3040. That’s about right. If the price could be .12 plus materials of 4.50 that’s $5.54 wholesale, $12.19 retail, and around $8.00 selling. So yea, a plastic injection piece or a piece of solid wood?
I would not pay for it I believe. I would make my own though. One reason not to pay for it would be that a specialized peace like that would have to be made to showcase some books very special to me.
Stupid idea, I mean it only can hold the books with the same thickness that they used. Ok, interesting idea for a museum but definetly not fot a house. I would pay only 15 dollars and I think that it is to much. But if we talk of its ARTISTIC VALUE it may reach the 2000 dollars.
i love how everyone says “i’d do it myself” yet no one ever does. It’s so easy to say, i’m waiting to see people actually do it.
Cuz its useless man, nobody going to waste their time for doing this crap.
I think that if the books are included, and are first editions then the price is completely fair.
Don et al. I think you’re missing the point. It’s not a shelf to hold a few books that have to be that thickness. It’s a shelf to hold very specific books that are a set. From the website: “For the first time, seven of the world’s most seminal texts on power and its relationship to the ordering of society are brought together and presented on the same level”. You could do the same for the bible, torah, koran, Dianetics, etc. (joking about the last one!)
Oh, and they do have one for religion: http://blankblank.net/collection/mikeandmaaike/religion/index.php