Ads
related to: apollo narrow bookcases for small spaces
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Shop the best bookcases to upgrade your living room, home library or bedroom. See cheap Amazon picks, styles for small spaces, solid wood bookcases and more.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The bookcase was designed in 1979 by Gillis Lundgren, IKEA's fourth employee. His initial sketches for the bookcase were done on the back of a napkin. When designing the product, emphasis was given to functionality and flexibility recognising that different homes had different requirements and space availability.
A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture with horizontal shelves, often in a cabinet, used to store books or other printed materials. Bookcases are used in private homes, public and university libraries, offices, schools, and bookstores. Bookcases range from small, low models the height of a table to high models reaching up to ceiling ...
The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) (illustration).It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines ...
The bookcase is 10 feet (3.0 m) high and 5 feet (1.5 m) wide. [2] It has been described as "the most important example of Victorian painted furniture ever made." [3] The paintings on the bookcase depict pagan and Christian art depicted in "allegories of poetry, architecture, sculpture, painting and music".