Design
Object of Desire: Hanging Bicycle Bookshelf
At last, an apartment-based bike storage concept that could work for almost everyone
We'll admit, ever since our friends over at Architizer pointed us to this fantastic looking hanging bicycle bookshelf combo from Italian furniture designers BYografia, the cyclists among us on the Cities staff have been collectively drooling.
Unlike some of the apartment-based bicycle storage solutions Eric Jaffe wrote about a couple months back, such as this simple mounted shelf, BYografia's vertical "Bookbike" shelf doesn't a) require you to have a blank wall wide enough to accommodate the entire length of your bicycle or b) only work with bicycles that have a perfectly straight, relatively thin crossbar. Since the "Bookbike" lets you hang your bike vertically from the front wheel, it fits every bike.