Current Events & Trends | October 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

The Pencil Bookcase

The incredibly cool pencil bookcase (my thanks to FB&C contributor Jonathan Shipley for finding it). German publisher Mitteldeutscher Verlag shows us what creative book display is.

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