Marc Meyer, owner of Faux Library Studio Props in North Hollywood, holds up some of the thousands of faux books on display inside his prop house. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) Longtime prop house ...

Nice set of books, right? Ah, but it’s a trompe illusion, art that tricks the eye into thinking it’s looking at a three-dimensional object. What you’re actually seeing is a book façade hiding a secret ...

Thanks to impatient clients, many of the shelves in this impressive library are full of faux volumes that nobody can read. Tianin is a port city in northeastern China that mixes the architectural ...

Already the norm for film sets and commercial spaces, fake books are becoming common fixtures in homes, but if you see one, you might never know. While some people are going all in and covering entire ...

Longtime prop house owner Marc Meyer always imagined he would die in his office chair. That one day, someone would find him slumped over his desk, surrounded by his life’s work. Last week, that desk — ...