Whether used as a single shelf or in a seamless-looking row, the Slotted System Bookcase holds everything from small paperbacks to large art books and lps with ease. 

Designed in collaboration with Ken Nishijo of Raregem Japan, a Japan-based cabinet-making studio and bag builder, this is a casual bag with serious construction and beautiful details.

Made from #4 Selvedge Canvas (woven in small batches on looms imported to Japan from Belgium in the 1930s), and equipped with natural vegetable-tanned leather handles from one the oldest and best tanners in Tokyo. The remarkably precise stitching is all hand-done by Nishijo’s own family in his workshop. The natural canvas has a dirt-resistant starch finish, but this is a bag made to be used hard, age well, and last a lifetime.

Whether used as a single shelf or in a seamless-looking row, the Slotted System Bookcase keeps everything from small paperbacks to large art books and lps.

The design of these beauties is the only thing simple about them. A wood craftsman works for days on each one. They’re made in California of custom American natural birch ply (made for us in Oregon), each unit is cut and trimmed by hand to ensure an exact fit (one “foot” alone has 27 edges and surfaces to be hand-sanded), then matte clear-coated, meticulously edge-banded (16 edges per unit are hand edge-banded, a painstaking process of cutting, trimming and application), then sanded again before shipping out to you.

We work hard to create a lasting piece of book furniture that functions perfectly and  holds up beautifully with use. The SSB-1 ships flat & slots together effortlessly to make a sturdy and handsome table top bookcase.