MEANDER bookend

Product information

MEANDER is an exciting experimental combination of bookends and bookshelves.

Can a furniture accessory emphasise our decorative books/albums while retaining book storage as an original function? Can the book and bookend form unity? These are some of the questions Ádám Miklósi sought to answer when designing MEANDER.

The name – Meander – refers both to the product’s formal character and its underlying philosophy: the soft, winding curves echo the natural bends of a river, while subtly reflecting the journey of reading itself – a free-flowing, immersive stream of thought that awaits within the world of books.

The product was inspired by mid-century modern magazine holders but lacked the complex wavy-line design. It was important to keep the meanderlike shape without becoming overly playful and to maintain a clean aesthetic quality. The designer optimised the dimensions to accommodate small books/albums as a display furniture accessory.

The MEANDER can be used as a stand-alone display to store and display our favourite books, magazines and albums on a sideboard or wall shelf as a classic bookend or as a bookcase organiser.

Dimensions:

MEANDER small (2 end parts):
205 x 150 x 245 mm (L × W × H)
Weight: 1,15 kg

MEANDER long (2 end parts and 2 middle parts):
385 x 150 x 245 mm (L × W × H)
Weight: 1,15 kg

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Meet the designer

Ádám Miklósi

Ádám Miklósi is a twofold Red Dot Award winner, an iF Award winner, a Hungarian Design Award winner, a Hungarian Academy of Arts Scholarship winner, a twofold László Moholy-Nagy Design Scholarship winner, an industrial designer.

In his work, he has been involved in a wide range of diverse product development from concept to mass production, gaining significant professional experience in furniture design, household appliance design, healthcare design, packaging design, user experience design and research. He continuously applies and develops design methodology tools in collaboration with potential users. As a curious thinker, he is a keen researcher of open and distributed design. He is currently pursuing his PhD at MOME in the field of open design for children with cerebral palsy (CP) disability.

As a designer, he is an active part of the international design community. He has collaborated with several professional organisations (The Index Project, Distributed Design Marketing Platform, Advanced Design, Fablab Organisation) to share knowledge and promote the profession.

Since 2020, he has been supporting the professional development of future designers as a lecturer at the Design Campus of Széchenyi University in Hungary.