Milan's international design fair is a yearly event that has been going for 48 years which aims to showcase new products from lamps to bed, garden furniture, objects, textiles, chairs - basically anything found in a home, an office, or garden. The fair covers four times the surface area of the British Museum and for one week, 2823 designers and furniture companies hope to attract the interest of some of the 350,000 professionals attending. The Ready Made Bookshelf by NEXT Architects comes with a facade of 'need-to-have' books for status, even if you don't intend to read them. The facade gradually gets replaced by actual books as and when you read them. I find this design really witty, as so many people (especially those in the design business) buy books based upon what they think looks good on the shelf, as opposed to what the actually want to read.
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