Ron Arad is an Israeli industrial designer and architect who is arguably most famous for his futuristic furniture design. His work consistently shows how limitless industrial design can be, whether you're looking at a chair fit for a space station or a bookshelf that coils around itself across a wall. He was appropriately selected to exhibit at the MoMA in 2009--an installation view can be seen here:

Naturally, such an ambitious designer would tackle a book project with similar bravado, and Arad nails it. In this case, the "book" of The Idiot is a stack of bound-but-unboarded pages. The top of the stack is the first page of the novel, and the bottom of the stack is the last. With no covers, the design here is strictly limited to the edges of the paper. "The Idiot" is written across one side, the Penguin logo on another, and "Dostoyevsky" down the longer edge.
This pile of paper is held in place by small tabs on a perspex tray, which allows the 600-or-so pages to sway a little. Whether this is intentional or not, the paper's shift seems to further disorient the structure of the book.
Currently reading:
The End of War by John Horgan
Currently listening to:
Light Asylum, "Shallow Tears" 12"
The End of War by John Horgan
Currently listening to:
Light Asylum, "Shallow Tears" 12"
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