Description
This is the RGruppe Book – taken to its absolute limit.
Not an edition.
A construction.
Built around the original work, but pushed further into something physical.
More mass. More depth. More presence.
Encased in a hand-made slipcase.
Each copy individually numbered — not printed, but struck.
The numbers are punched into the material the same way chassis numbers once defined the identity of a car.
No automation.
No repetition without consequence.
Limited to 700 copies.
Inside, the full work remains untouched:
580 pages.
Nearly five kilograms.
Three different paper stocks.
Printed, bound and finished in Germany to the highest standards of contemporary bookmaking.
This is not about variation.
It is about elevation.
Each book carries a personal inscription.
Not replicated. Not standardized.
A direct mark.
Included is a silver foil decal — exclusive to this edition.
Made to exist outside the book.
On the object. On the car. In the world it belongs to.
What you hold here is not just documentation.
It is access — materialized.
A closed culture.
Unfiltered. Unstaged. Untranslated.
Cars that were never meant to be perfect.
People you don’t get to meet.
A world that does not explain itself.
This edition does not scale.
When it is gone, it is gone.
