I'm trying to design some curved-front bookshelves that will appear to float unsupported from a wall in a contemporary living room. Any pointers to places where I can get ideas for how to make this work?
I'm imagining shelves 66 inches long, that curve from no depth at both ends to 18 inches deep in the center. In the center, they will be cut to fit around a 17-inch wide column that protrudes 7 inches from the wall. Wall is gyp-board over steel studs, and the column is probably gyp-board on furring strips.
I'm thinking of sandwiching two thicknesses of 3/4-inch plywood together with a U-shaped steel channel (the type usually mounted on a wall to support bookcases, ironically) in the middle of the sandwich to resist longitudinal sagging. But the support from the wall has me stymied.