Heavy-Duty Bookends: Plain and Fancy

Now that you've stopped reading books you don't enjoy, and gotten rid of the books that no longer serve you, let's look at bookends to help organize the books you're keeping: good, heavy-duty bookends that won't topple over. The powder coated steel bookends above come from Jasper Morrison, and should certainly do the job. [via Better Living Through Design]




The steel bookends from Hay come in sets of three — in white, black, a gray mix and the multi-color mix shown above. The Finnish Design Shop carries all except the gray mix. [via Better Living Through Design]




And for yet another variation on the basic steel bookend, take a look at these from BOOK/SHOP. [via Better Living Through Design] Update on July 5, 2015: I'm no longer finding these at BOOK/SHOP, but the site does have another interesting choice.




Instead of steel, you could go with wrought iron bookends. There are a number of interesting choices.




But not all heavy-duty bookends are made of metal. For example, Andrew Stuart makes these concrete bookends; they weight 5 pounds each. Update on April 20, 2014: I'm no longer finding these bookends.





Karen makes sand-filled and rice-filled bookends, in the shape of owls, raccoons and more.




And Dora Designs also makes sand-weighted bookends, including these owls.

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