Iâm guessing that it is artificial. Assouline doesnât seem to sell (or have sold) âThe light of Monte Carloâ. They have sold âThe light ofâ several cities though.
This appears to be a render. Itâs not the pixels that give it away, itâs the consistent grey shadows, the smooth highlights, and lack of very small details in surface noise, wear, perfect alignment of elements, etc. The image could have been rendered with Vray (my personal favorite) or Mental Ray (also great).
Still, rendered or real⌠itâs cute! They would need to be cast in something heavy, right? Maybe resin would work, to keep the from being shoved aside by tilting books.
Conceptually, these are exquisite. They need to exist in a form with enough mass to do the job; somebody please - make it so!
Dunno about rendering, but thatâs not a real Everymanâs Library R. L. Stevenson: theyâre much more attractively rounded on their edges, much more commodiously fashioned to look at and to hold. The copy on the shelf looks like library binding to me, maybe a Shoop?
The pages of the bent books wouldnât be still aligned, unless the booksâ covers and pages were steam bentâŚand were actually made of wood, not paper.
'Shop, if you ask me.
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Is it a thing now to leave Cyrillic untransliterated? Fortunately, thatâs one of very few non-Roman alphabets I know, so I can help by fellow BBers out by telling them itâs âDmitri Kulyaevââbut I hope Iâm not also going to have to learn kanji or Arabic to get through my daily âwonderful thingsâ.
Oh, and on-topic: render or not, I love the idea of those bookendsâŚI hope they make it into production at some point.
I think Iâd be more impressed if they were Daliesque giant melting pocket watches, though I suppose that imagery is kinda clichĂŠd.
I would have rendered it as Dmitriy. Throw any foreign name at the BB community and Iâm sure one of us will provide the transliteration.
Came here to say something similar. Iâm getting used to untranslated Russian titles because all cat videos seem to be from Russia, but others may not be patient enough to learn another language written in another alphabet.
Wouldnât be hard. Materials for a book cover (cardboard, fabric or leather, some silkscreening or painting or stencil work to apply the spine title and any decorative pattern); padded stacks of paper to represent the page edges, and a rounded-L-shaped hunk of wood or plaster or other material to give it mass. Youâd probably want to make sure the bottom of the L is sufficiently heavy to keep it stable when unsupported.
Thereâs probably a better way to do it; thatâs just the first one that comes to mind.
Doing it for mass production would be a different kettle of worms. But itâs certainly possible; stranger things are available off the shelf.
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