Sit and Read: The chair bookcase bookcase chair

Talk about killing two birds with one stone. This gem was "developed as a chair and a bookcase simultaneously, the intention was to provide both the storage for and a seat in which to read."

It was designed by Gail Peter Borden. Borden is the Borden of the architecture firm Borden Partnership and is a professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.

The design of the chair bookcase bookcase chair "focused on sustainability", with each chair using over 90% of a 4'x8' sheet of plywood. It is "based on the hybrid dimensions of Le Corbusier's infamous leather and metal LC2 chair and the flat pack limitations of a single sheet of plywood, the chair bookcase bookcase chair acts as a delicate lattice when empty and a dominant cube when full."


Each chair can hold over 200 books, or 400+ if they're all paperbacks. No data is yet available on how many Kindles or Nooks would fit.

The chair bookcase bookcase chair is going for $750 and is available at Yanko Design




Thanks to Bookshelf blog for the lead