Pelican Wooden Box

Question - how stoked would you be if your girlfriend bought you a Pelican box set for Christmas? Probably nearly as stoked as I was I imagine.

This thing was put together by Viva Hate Records to mark Pelican's ten year anniversary. For the hefty price tag, you get one wooden (!) box containing all of Pelican's records to date, and an exclusive Florian Bertmer t-shirt:

The box itself is made of wood. As you can see, it has the band name debossed into the top.

Inside is literally every record that Pelican have released over the past ten years.

The record titles are carved into the inside of the box lid:

Each box is also numbered out of 500. The first 150 are on white vinyl, with the remaining 350 sets being on black vinyl.

What I like about this is the sense of neatness and order. All the records have similar layouts. Like the spines, for example:

Also, all the records have had all the text removed from the covers. So each cover is a picture only. And each is a different colour and has the same border size around the picture. It's little touches like this that makes it seem like a set. As an example, here's a picture of the box set version (left) next to the regular version of the last album:

Take that idea and repeat it seven times and this is what you get:

I got one of the white ones. Given that three of the albums are double LPs, there's a total of ten records in the box:

The back of each sleeve is also laid out in a similar way, adding to the feel of consistency:

Also, each LP sleeve has a coloured inside. And each one is a different colour. Here's what I mean:

Overall, this is a really beautiful piece of art. The only slight problem is that it gives me a dilemma - where the hell am I going to keep this thing?