5 Creative, High-Design Bookshelves

Books add warm and personality to a space—and sometimes, though far too seldom, the shelves they sit on do the same. Here, five creative, handsomely built shelves that beautifully upstage their contents. Slideshow

Designed by Australian architect John Wardle, these steel shelves hang from wooden pegs in the walls of this compact guest cottage, built on the site of a former sheep shearing shed.