Raw Book Stop

Every bookshelf could use one piece that stops you scrolling past it. RAW BOOK STOP is a single sculptural block that steps back in four fanned blades, like pages caught mid flip, holding your next read at just the right lean. Printed in PLA+ with a deliberately raw finish, the horizontal layer lines are left visible rather than sanded smooth, giving each blade a fine ridged texture that changes with the light depending on where you stand. It is a texture you simply do not get from injection moulded plastic or turned timber, and here it is entirely the point. A flat foot moulded into the base slides under your book stack for leverage, so the tallest blade carries the weight while the shortest blade at the front catches the spine of whatever you are reading now. Simple physics, dressed up as architecture. Designed by Martin Zampach, RAW BOOK STOP was built to be a small design object first and a bookend second, so it holds its own on a floating shelf or console table just as well as a bookcase. Printed to order and ready within a couple of days, so your shelf can get its raw, fan folded centrepiece without a long wait.