The wonderful Venus bookshelf designed by Fabio Novembre, who said, “Canova imagined that his Venus had been caught unawares in the nude and he gave her a marble veil to hide herself from indiscrete eyes. I added a succession of wooden shelves that cross the most private parts of her body to camouflage her in the midst of books and other objects.” It has been classified as a bookcase but a different point of view may regard Venus as the statue of a goddess. Venus is both things: art and function, an essential part of design.