Piet Hein Eek Leff Alarm Clock: Black Design Books & Bookends & Book Accessories_Accessories use it as a salt

use it as a salt bowl or catch-all

carved in a faceted form and lined in matte white glaze

This thought-provoking volume

The open spine binding lets pages rest flat

photographers obsessed with lighting

Piet Hein Eek Leff Alarm Clock: Black Design Books & Bookends & Book Accessories_Accessories use it as a saltThe Tube Alarm Clock is a small cylindrical alarm clock designed by Piet Hein Eek, in matte black. Eek designs from a deliberately plain premise keep things normal and down to earth, but still extraordinary and he finds his forms in ordinary industrial processes. Here he started with an extrusion ring: the profiled ring that gives material its shape as it is forced through a mold. He made that ring the clock face, so the finely toothed dial you read