I’m a sucker for old-school air travel tickets. Initially inspired by the book Carouschka’s Tickets, which was given to me while I was in college, I’ve been collecting airplane tickets for years. Naturally, when I first saw these Pilot and Captain T-shirts by our friends at The Heads of State, I fell in love.

Pamela D. Arceneaux, senior librarian and rare books curator at The Williams Research Center, is currently researching and writing about New Orleans Blue Books. But these blue books aren’t social registers or pricing guides like Kelley Blue Book for cars, they were prostitute directories for Storyville, where prostitution was legally sanctioned in New Orleans about a century ago. No one knows the true author nor publisher of New Orleans Blue Books, but weirdly, Will Bradley’s Mission Toys—ornaments designed in 1904 for the  American Type Founders Company (ATF)—appear in some! Follow along as this curiosity develops.

For Booken, Raw Edges takes the bookcase concept and turns it on its side, so that the spines of the hanging volumes function as both a table top and a library.

The work was recently presented at the Salone del Mobile 2013.

Made out of interlocking wooden boards, the “fold” shelving unit by Nendo is oriented in different positioned angles. Debuting at Spazio Pontaccio during Salone del Mobile in Milano, the system uses the superior craftsmanship of Japanese manufacturer Conde House, making the joints appear seamless—as though single boards have been bent and interwoven like paper chains or a woven textile. Looking at the shelves, it seems virtually impossible to know how the parts are connected.