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Ex Libris by Chanan de Lange
Dezeen in Israel: designer Chanan de Lange exhibits two circular library bookshelves made from recycled school desks at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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Around 20,000 books can be stored on the wooden shelves, which are fixed at different angles onto supporting metal columns.
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Books can only fit onto the structure face down, so that the text on each spine is correctly orientated.
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The library installation is on show inside the museum's new wing, the Herta and Paul Amir Building, which we featured on Dezeen last week - see our earlier story here.
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You can also find out more about design from Israel in our special feature.
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Photography is by Ariel Caine.
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Here's some more text from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art:
Chanan de Lange: Ex Libris
"Ex Libris" is a library composed of two rounded objects, capable of storing 20,000 books.
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The work raises questions about the manner and "ease" of a book's placement on a shelf and about the visitor/user's progress through the space defined by the library.
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The book accompanying the exhibition presents numerous libraries designed by De Lange throughout the years – private and public libraries, some of which are functional and some display objects – and points out the material, formal and technological connections between them.
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Agnes and Beny Steinmetz Wing for Architecture and Design, Gallery 1, the Herta and Paul Amir Building
Curated by Maya Vinitsky (book)