Hu Fang: Home for Books

Hu Fang: Home for Books

Title: Home for Books
Design: Hu Fang
Material: African Ambila
Size: 48×48×48cm
Year: 2017


Home for Books, Reference Image

 

This is architecture for books; in my imagination, an ideal home for them. Books find their own residential area according to their own size and personality. They are given a living space to breathe in, not just in a stack of paper anymore. At the same time, the reader is granted the freedom to enter and visit this home and place it wherever: on the wall, on the floor, on a table, and even next to a beer, a cup of tea or an IPAD. The book and its home coexist together, and in their harmony become scenery. In this way, they form a garden of books.

Hu Fang

Materials and craftsmanship

 

Materials: African Ambila wood (Pterocarpuserinaceus Poir) belongs to the rosewood family. This version of Home of Books uses Ambila wood, it’s a type of wood that’s in compliance with Chinese national standardsset for rosewood, and a relatively more stable one in the rosewood family. Ambila wood preserves the characteristic aroma of Padauk, and its colour much lighter compared to the red-black colour of lobular Rosewood. It has mountain-shaped grains with ghost’s face grains in between. Different sections of a same tree of Ambila have different shades of colours due to the temperaments and conditions of the tree’s life. 

 


 Material of Home for Books

 

Craftsmanship: Home for Books uses traditional tenon and mortise, mainly the triangular tenon and double-mitred tenon——tighter and firmer in the joints of their structures. Tenon-and-mortise is a significant technique in traditional woodcraft furnitures, and even the core, due to its close direct relation with the craftsmanship embodied in the processes of the formation and crafting of the furniture. The meticulous execution of this Ambila version of Home for Books allows its design concept to show through its form, and a cogent collaboration between the designer and the carpenter.

 

 Craftsmanship of Home for Books

 


 Craftsmanship of Home for Books

 


 Home for Books

 

  

About Hu Fang

Hu Fang, a fiction writer, art critic, works and lives in Guangzhou, China. His recent books include: Dear Navigator (Fiction, Sternberg Press, English) and Towards a Non-intentional Space (Essay, Koenig Books, London, English).

      

Image and Text: the shop, Authors, the shop, 2019

 

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