So we weren't the least bit surprised when we received a press release this morning revealing the London designer's newest wares - set to be released in two weeks at the Milan Furniture Fair - that contained a veritable smorgasbord of copper, cast-iron, brass, and shiny stainless steel, with a small contingent of nickel-plated aluminum tables that pair the faceting of a cut gem with the roughed-up surface of a silver ingot. Tom Dixon has long been considered a master of metal (thanks, famously, to an early motorcycle accident requiring extensive bike repairs for which he learned, then fell in love with, welding). We were tempted to choose these mismatched, mixed-metal beauties from Mjolk, but the clutch copper version appears to be permanently out of stock! Until then, we’re recommending these anonymous but kind of great totemic book stops, available in white or black marble ($128.50 for one, ). A perennial Sight Unseen favorite, these geometric bookends by Daniel Emma for Field are machined from a single piece of granite, making them heavy-duty enough to hold up even the thickest tomes ($180 for a pair, ). Majorly minimalist brass bookend set by Monocle in the UK puts the emphasis on the coolness of your titles and the aesthetics of your spines - time to stock up on that Apartamento archive! ($70 for a pair, )Ĥ. Each shape is available as a set of 2, but we’re partial to this set of three different bookends - which comes in handy if the other side of your book stack rests against a case ($55 for a set of 3, ). Saturday we introduced you to the new Belgian housewares brand Hausmerk, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t include the studio’s architectural, lacquered metal Elements trio here. These polished, geometric brass bookends by Swedish designers Folkform are sophisticated without being stuffy ($185 for one, ).Ģ. In the past, our taste in bookends has run from zigzags to Memphis-style laminate to scrap-stuffed stone, but this week we were feeling the sculptural metal vibes. five new ways to make your killer design library look even cooler.ġ. Today, our subject is the bookend - a.k.a. A periodic nod to object typologies both obscure and ubiquitous, featuring five of our favorite recent examples.
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