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Shopping for lumber to build furniture can be confusing and time consuming, but this modern style bookcase is built using a single sheet of 3/4” plywood. To make this bookcase, you’ll need a table saw ...

Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of Ikea’s Billy bookcase in this extract from his new book Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy. Denver Thornton hates the Billy bookcase. He runs a ...

The revolving bookcase, once manufactured by Canton's John Danner, seems to be a product that proves that axiom. What goes around does come around. Historical repetitiveness – if something falls out ...

In this episode of Modern Builds, I’m walking you through how to build a clean, stylish mid-century modern bookcase using 3/4" maple plywood. This project is perfect for beginners or small-shop ...

The Billy bookcase is perhaps the archetypal Ikea product. It was dreamed up in 1978 by an Ikea designer called Gillis Lundgren who sketched it on the back of a napkin, worried that he would forget it ...