16:50, the margin
Round one coin you can lay exactly six of the same size, each touching it. Go on, and you have the densest packing of circles in the plane: it covers π/(2√3) of it, about 90.7%, a fact bees act on and one proved in full only in 1940. Hexagonal pencils go one better and leave no gaps. In three dimensions the number is twelve: twelve and one again.
Objects · Bundle of seven pencils
Six and One
CHF 24 working price
For the margins: six pencils for the working and one red for the line you will want to find again.
Seven hexagonal pencils in a bundle: six in graphite round one in red. It is the tightest way to pack them, and one of the reasons a pencil has six sides.
A study: nothing can be ordered yet. The photograph is a generated image, not a picture of a made piece or of a real person.
- Seven hexagonal cedar pencils, 7 mm across: six HB graphite lacquered in slate, one vermilion in lead and lacquer
- Nothing printed on them, no ferrule, no eraser; sharpened to a long point
- Held by a band of the notebook’s slate book cloth; the mark is on the box, not on the pencils
- The red is sold singly, like the red chalk
