Punctuate Your Bookshelf

Finish the job: Punctuate your bookshelf Video meeting software has made us all very aware of the bookshelves behind us. It has become important to compose a shelf that suggests you are a serious person, but with a fun side, someone who knows how to balance and punctuate a regimented book collection with moments of material, form and negative space. It used to be just the people you invited to your home who would judge your bookshelves.

Now you wear your bookshelves publicly and your colleagues and clients are busy judging your choices. Read on to see how our new DROPS bookends can add some gorgeous, glossy full stops to your best sentences. captured by Florian Hetz .

Materials: Pigmented bonding Flashes of unexpected colour In every product we make, FUNDAMENTAL is pushing the boundaries of craftsmanship and material. For the DROPS family of products, it's all about the bond. We have developed a proprietary glass bond that can transmit a high level of pigment, in fact our bonded surfaces contain 2 different pigments that are allowed to mingle but not mix.

This means that we have an intensely pigmented, translucent layer between 2 highly refractive crystal solids. As the light passes through these different layers, strange and unexpected things happen with the distribution of the colour. The object seen from some angles is totally clear, and from some angles the crystal balls fill with warm yellow and magenta colour washes.

Coming to a stop The design concept explained If your bookcase is telling a story about who you are, then these bookends are the punctuation separating out the sentences. The bookends are inspired by punctuation marks and letters of the alphabet, they are a homage to the dash and the dot, exclamation marks and semi colons. To be honest, a large part of the fascination of these pieces is to create a 'legitimate' use case for a crystal ball.

There is a reason why gazing into a crystal ball is a fortune-teller's cliché: it makes you think you can see further than the natural world in front of you. By bending the light, sucking in surrounding colour and shapes and flipping them inside out and upside down, they give an uncanny and mesmerizing perspective on the world around. They can bring a row of books to an end, or sit atop a pile of books to create a statement.

They are made from heavy, solid crystal glass, bringing some sparkle, glow and a flash of unexpected colour to your #shelfie DROPS - BOOKENDS GET YOURS captured by Florian Hetz .