Most wood shelving units aren’t very flexible when it comes to storing your stuff; they’re boxy and the shelves usually only fit things within one height range. Sometimes you have to cram things in sideways just so you can store the Joy of Cooking next to your copy of Catcher In The Rye. It all looks very messy and is not good for your Feng Shui. However, there is hope, thanks to IOLA Design. The Family owned and operated design and manufacturing company has come up with quite the innovative shelving unit with their beautiful bookshelf made from bamboo and maple, the Kumiko. The impressive free-standing furnishing allows for books, pottery, glassworks, knick-knacks and A-Team action figures of varying sizes to co-exist in one place, thanks to a thoughtfully flexible design that gives you more space than your wonderful ex-girlfriend (maybe too much space) by keeping the actual shelves from extending the entire width of the frame. If all that space doesn’t make you feel good, there’s always the fact that the fine people at IOLA will donate a minimum of 1% of all after costs profit to Us Doctors for Africa.

Via Design Milk