BIRDMAN BOOKCASE
Large-scale, lighted display case for movie memorabilia.
Birch and teak plywood, remote-controlled dimmable LED lighting system, black paint. Writer/Director Alejandro González Iñárritu needed a bookcase in his office to display, among other items, the mask Michael Keaton wore in Birdman. The whole unit assembled is 16’ x 7-1/2”: too big to fit up the stairs (with a 180 degree turn halfway up) to his office, so I designed 8 separate modules that nest together.
3/4” birch plywood with a 1/2” plywood core beefs up the scale of the shelves and dividers and provides a seamless union where modules come together.
Modules are screwed together in hidden places with black cabinet screws.