2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Imitation Marble finished Horsehead Bookend

Entrant Company

XIAMEN GRACEFUL ARTS INDUSTRIAL CO.,LTD.

Category

Product Design - Workplace & Office

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

This series of bookends draws inspiration from the elegance of jade and marble, breaking free from the limitations of traditional bookends. These bookends, through jade-like materials and craftsmanship, elevate practical utensils into spatial aesthetic symbols. The designers of them have abandoned the heaviness and scarcity of natural stone, as well as the expensiveness and rarity of jade-made works. They design these bookends with high-transparency resin and titanium dioxide for layered casting, accurately imitating the warm, smooth and translucent texture of white marble. These bookends feature a precision hydro-transfer printing finish that mimics the flowing cloud-and-smoke patterns of natural marble, allowing these man-made products to imitate the warm, smooth texture and artistic appeal of jade-like stone.
The bookends adopt a thick, vertical base, which not only ensures stable support for books but also forms a concise and sharp visual characteristic. The bookends boast hand-polished transitions at their horse-shaped curved surfaces, creating a soft, warm glow similar to jade artifacts. Their textures shift with viewing angles, presenting dynamic beauty and inherent tension. This design can not only serve as an artistically decorative bookend but also stand alone as a desktop or entrance hall sculpture. The bookends deconstruct the spirit of Eastern literati through modern craftsmanship. The contemporary nature of transparent resin collides artistically with the classical charm of jade-like textures, elevating the stationery accessories into tangible art displays.

Credits

Gao Xiaolin
Lan Yuehui
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