Shagreen Book Set of 12 in Storm Gray, Pebbled Leather

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Cool slate-gray shagreen leather binds twelve paper volumes in the Storm Gray colorway, carrying a fine pebbled grain. Sizes vary … Read more Cool slate-gray shagreen leather binds twelve paper volumes in the Storm Gray colorway, carrying a fine pebbled grain. Sizes vary across the twelve volumes, so a grouping never looks uniform whether the books are laid flat or stood upright. The pebbling reads as texture rather than pattern, close up and across a room alike.

Each book runs 7 to 10 inches wide and 5 to 7 inches high, with a spine of about an inch. That range makes them easy to layer across a coffee table, fill a shelf run of any width, or raise a lamp, a bowl or a small sculpture to a more useful height. Stood upright, the spines give a shelf a low and even line.

Storm Gray suits rooms working in charcoal, ivory and warm metal, and twelve volumes give a bookcase rhythm without competing with what sits around them. An Art Deco interior takes the set naturally, though it reads just as well in a traditional library or a spare modern study. Twelve is enough to split across two shelves and still read as one group.

Dimensions : 7"-10"w x 1"d x 5"-7"h (sizes vary) See less