EQUIS

Any two lines travelling in contrary directions will eventually meet. Equis stands at the intersecting place between them, the three-dimensional incarnation of the most basic definition of a point. Yet it’s amazing what depth can bring once you take lines out of a flat plane and make them real. The intersecting point in 3D becomes a snug niche and the run-up to the lines meeting doubles up as a sturdy, symmetrical base. What was just two lines passing in the night has suddenly become a solid free stand, ideal to hold or showcase a coffee-table book. This revelation might be short of an apotheosis, but what it is – stylish, functional, simple – brings it squarely into our conception of design.

The character of the Equis Book Stand is heavily dependent on the prolongation of the two lines, which remain independent but interlocked in the shape of two constituting wooden slabs. Each slab has a corresponding indentation at the point of intersection allowing them to slide into one another and remain fastened together. Keeping the prolongation at a 2:1 ratio in relation to the run-up (legs) creates a perfectly balanced object, symmetrical sturdy and soft to the eye.