Craving this Book Table…

Meet the Designer: An SF Architect’s Approach to Book Shelves

By Dara Kerr / 01/16/12 at 5:00 am

Instead of a coffee table book, what about a book coffee table? Bay Area architect, artist and fabricator Lisa Finster is now custom creating what she calls the “Book Table.” She takes people’s favorite and different sized books and precisely fits them between panels of poplar—much like putting together pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

“I love incorporating things into my work that have significance to me – it’s like I am building a home for something I love while giving it a reason to live on display, or to become something useful,” Finster says. “For me, the book table is like a functional memory capsule – it is a table made complete by a series of books from a formative time in my life.”