Book lovers have always held on to their precious book marks, marking pages after pages in between their compulsive habit of reading. But from paper to ribbon to fabric, felt, wood, and even precious metals, bookmarks have eventually raced on to marble, giving book nerds an elevated sense to their reading experience, by literally mounting their favourite book onto a bookmark! Sounds quirky?
British designer Paul Cockridge’s The Bookmark is everything a bookmark is not supposed to be: heavy to lift, difficult to carry, and bigger than the book itself. The work alters the power balance between page keeper and book, tethering it to its place.
Dutch stone supplier SolidNature gives the varied aqua coloured stone with gold, tan, and brown veining using Laguna Quartzite, and the black with intensive goldish colouration veins of Aurea Vesperati that makes the simple geometry of a wedge-shaped bookstand, with its large flat planes, becoming the perfect uninterrupted canvas to show off this intricately veined material to its full effect.
Cocksedge’s hand-selected blocks of stone are being used for the small and large versions of The Bookmark, processed at SolidNature’s workshop in Amsterdam, using CNC carving to cut and shape with precision and hand polish for finish.
Another masterpiece is the White Marble bookmark limited edition, each of which comes certified, numbered, and signed by Cocksedge himself, which tethered to a lamp can create long or wide shapes, and be adapted to fit into various interior spaces.
“The Bookmark radically changes the book as an object, making it an active part of the surrounding space, almost an object of veneration on its rocking altar,” says Cocksedge.
Do book lovers care less!
