Wall-mounted shelf LookShelf

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LookShelf is a solid wood bookshelf on which you can present your favourite books. Designed to be modest and totally dedicated to showing off items on the wall. Present your most precious art book, the reading book you just cannot put aside or the favourite story-telling book in the child-bedroom. Create an impressive ‘library’ wall in every living room, a bookshelf next to your bed, a magazine wall in a coffee bar or a display at the bookshop. The LookShelf also assists you in the kitchen: it supports your cookbook while you prepare the food yourself. Of course, the LookShelf can also be used to place other items such as a picture frame, your most beautiful record sleeve or even your iPad. The LookShelf has been part of the Vij5 collection since 2013. We are big fans of Daphna Laurens's work and the way they really shape objects through their unique design process. The LookShelf is a modest product that is subordinate to the object on it. We use it ourselves mainly in our kitchen as a holder for a cookbook. The book stays nice and clean, the countertop is free and it also looks super nice! Laurens made the very first LookShelfs in his own workshop. As basic material he used discarded solid oak tables, which he found in the cycle. Because Daphna Laurens grew rapidly as a studio and with it also increased their workload, it seemed sensible to outsource the production of the LookShelf at some point. That was actually arranged very quickly: we made a technical drawing of the design and asked our local wood producer, who makes several Vij5 products, to produce the LookShelf as well! The LookShelf consists of a solid oak block and is made of PEFC certified oak.