Although I first spotted London-based, Norway-born designer Amy Hunting’s hanging Block Shelf a couple of months back, it’s been on my mind once again as I’m currently on the hunt for innovative, space-saving bookshelf options. Although this particular specimen may be out of reach for me — it retails for €500 (about $637 U.S.) including shipping from Green Furniture Sweden — it’s still certainly worth ogling. 

 

For the prototype Block Shelf, Hunting used cotton sailing rope and untreated blocks of wood collected from the waste bins of timber importers across London to fashion a versatile storage solution that can be disassembled and easily put back together again when needed. The Block Shelf that’s in production and for sale now from Green Furniture Sweden is pretty much the same but the wood blocks are salvaged from Sweden’s flooring industry. Explains Hunting:

The dogma behind this product is probably quite obvious: what can you do with blocks of wood and cotton rope? Using a knot traditionally used for sailing and fishing you can pull the strings and the shelf will disassemble. It can easily be put together again.