Shirley Ting, founder and principal architect of Heko architecture firm, called us up to help her fill out an office space she was building for Grandway Asset Management in Pasadena, CA.  We worked to here to design and fabricate a book case that also served as sculpture.  The piece has two cantilevered shells split by a walnut shelf with embedded hardware that allows the attached bookends to slide and tighten down in order to hold the books on an angle.  The interior of the piece was patterned and pocketed to remove material to lighten the weight, then covered with  a semi-transparent acrylic inlay to allow just a  hint of the pattern to show through.
Materials:SHELL – lacquered MDF , SHELVES – walnut, BOOKENDS – powder-coated aluminum, custom Corian knobs and acrylic inlay.