Mike Mak | GIZMODO.cz

The name Wisdom Tree is perhaps the most apt for this bookshelf. Books impart knowledge, and when you’ve got a book-rack modeled on the shape of an evergreen tree, what better name could you possibly think of?! Meet the Wisdom Tree… it’s part bookshelf, part ambient-light. It illuminates your books and your space with a warm glow, while providing up to 5 storage racks for your current-reads. The shelf’s angular platforms let you stack the books open and face down, so you don’t really need a bookmark. Just lift up your book and begin reading from the page you’re on. Made by the same guys who designed the wonderful Bookniture series, each Wisdom Tree is made from birch plywood and is carefully assemble with build in USB powered warm white LED light.

Designers: Mike Mak & Plateaus

When I say “Furniture in a book”, your mind would probably think that the book in question was about furniture. However, Bookniture is way more literal than that! It literally is a book that opens up to become furniture!

Relying on folded paper’s ability to withstand large amounts of compressive stress against its thickness, the Bookniture literally comes as thick as a coffee-table book and as light as one too. It contains paper pages on the inside that are honeycombed together, and opens up like a regular book would. After opening the book up, just lock the covers to each other and place a circular mat on top and you have yourself an Ottoman Stool, or even a rather nifty side-table that can take up to 1100 kgs (2400 pounds) of load without breaking a sweat!

Just the most amazing product for picnics (forget those picnic mats!), or travel, or even in the most minimal-loving home/office, the Bookniture is undeniably stylish (it has a place in the Museum of Modern Art, btw!), supremely functional, and fits like a charm in any bookshelf! You could literally fill your bookshelf with these! Would that count as furniture-ception though?

Designers: Mike Mak & Plateaus