Fake Materials: Shelves Pretending to be Marble

A deliberately fake postmodern surface. Plastic laminate printed with exaggerated marble patterns, where the contrast and scale of the patterns are clearly unnatural; or paint creating fake wood grain, or stickers making fake bricks. They do not try to deceive, but rather amplify the artificial component, making it obvious at a glance that it is an imitation. The edges are thin laminate cross-sections, without thickness. Avoid: using real natural materials, making the imitation material so realistic it's hard to distinguish, thickening the edges to pretend it has volume, using subtle imitation patterns.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片刻意做假的後現代表面。塑膠層板上印著誇張的大理石紋,紋路的對比與尺度明顯不自然;或是塗料畫出的假木紋、貼紙做的假磚。它們不試圖以假亂真,反而把假的成分放大,讓人一眼看出這是模仿。邊緣是薄的層板斷面,沒有厚度。避免:使用真實的天然材料、讓仿材做得逼真難以分辨、把邊緣包厚假裝有量體、使用低調的仿材紋理。