British artist designer Daniel Eatock's work is characterised by clever leftfield interventions on everyday objects - and this shelf is no exception.

Observing that too many books often warps shelves, Eatock has built this normally irritating phenomenon into his own smile-inducing version; celebrating the flaw.

The piece, made of MDF and two simple brackets, is a remake of his Display Book Shelf, originally commissioned for Book Show, Eastside Projects.

Eatock says:

"The shelf sags under the weight of its contents in a graceful arc, the top edges of all the books are perfectly flush as a result of a conscious selection of volumes chosen to accommodate (or compensate for) the arc of the sagging shelf."

The books though are not just any books - the majority of the selection of them are the research material that informed the show, belonging to it's curator James Langdon.

And ever the detail-obsessed, Eatock has even given a full list of the exact 75 books which create the curve...