{"title":"Framed Panels","description":"\u003ch3\u003eOne fixing, a few minutes, done\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery other map we make goes up piece by piece: continents taped to the wall one at a time, a template or corner stencils to set them, a few hours of work. These do not. They arrive assembled inside a frame, and they hang the way a picture hangs, from the fixing built into the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the entire difference, and for a lot of people it is the deciding one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy choose a panel over a taped map?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA piece-by-piece map has no edge. The continents sit directly on the wall, the wall itself becomes the ocean, and the finished thing is an object rather than a picture. It needs clear space around it and it does not group with other framed things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA panel has a defined boundary. It belongs in a gallery wall, above a sideboard, in a room already hung with prints and photographs – and it can be moved to a different wall in the time it takes to put in a second hook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeither is better. They suit different rooms and different appetites for a few hours of taping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe wood is still raised\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are not prints. The map itself is cut from wood and mounted on top of the panel, standing off the background – up to nine millimetres on the world panels, with the mountain regions tallest – so it still throws a shadow and still changes as the light moves. The country names, borders and the US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved in the wood exactly as on our taped maps, and on the world panels even the ocean names, the compass rose, the ships and the planes are separate wooden pieces mounted on the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is printed is the ground. On the world panels it is a chart-grey ocean ruled with meridians and given an old-map wash. On the wine panels the chart does more: around the edge it names each wine region again with its grape varieties, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay under Bourgogne, Merlot and Cabernet under Bordeaux, which is more than the wood alone could carry at this size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich maps come as panels?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wooden-world-maps\"\u003eworld maps\u003c\/a\u003e and three \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wine-maps\"\u003ewine maps\u003c\/a\u003e. The world panels sit in a slim black frame on the same chart-grey ocean: Multicolor, where the land runs the whole warm range and neighbouring countries almost never share a shade, in two sizes; and Graphite, where slate and bronze mix with sand and terracotta and the cold ground pushes the land forward, in one. The Graphite panel is lettered in French, the Multicolor in English, and unlike the taped maps neither offers the other language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine maps divide France or Italy by wine region, the vineyards raised on the wood and the regions named around the edge with their grapes. France comes on two grounds: a pale cream chart with a weathered border in a dark walnut frame, which reads as an old chart, and a smooth warm parchment in a light oak frame, the quieter of the two. Italy is taller than it is wide, on an aged grey ground in a dark frame, with all twenty regions on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does the wall need?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne fixing rated for three to five kilograms, depending on the panel: a plasterboard anchor rather than a picture pin, and a hook rather than adhesive. That is the one thing to check before ordering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the fixing is mechanical, the wall surface stops mattering. Textured plaster, brick, wallpaper and freshly painted walls, where our double-sided tape is unreliable or unwelcome, are all fine here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho chooses a panel?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRenters, and anyone who has moved recently or expects to. People buying a map as a gift, since a framed panel can be given and hung the same day, while a piece-by-piece map is a few hours of work the recipient has not agreed to. And anyone who wants the map on the wall this evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat these are not\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDecorative rather than cartographic. Small countries and island groups are simplified at this scale, coastlines are smoothed, and on the wine maps the smallest designations are grouped into their regions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tableau-carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-multicolore","title":"3D Wooden World Map Multicolor – Framed Panel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWooden continents on a painted ocean\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe panel comes assembled and framed. Behind the map is a printed backing board – a chart-grey ocean crossed by faint meridians, with an old-map wash to it – and the continents are cut from stained wood and mounted on top, standing a few millimetres proud of the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe land runs through the full warm range: pale birch, chestnut, near-black walnut, mid-brown, warm ochre. Neighbouring countries almost never repeat a shade, so nearly every border is legible without needing the engraved line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe detail you see up close\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ocean names, the compass rose and the small aircraft and ships are not printed on the backing. They are separate wooden pieces mounted on the ocean surface, which is why they carry their own shadows. The lettering on this panel is in English only; unlike the taped maps, it is not offered in French.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat layering is the point of the piece. From a sofa it reads as a framed map; from a metre away it becomes visibly three-dimensional, with the coastlines lifting off the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo sizes, and they are not the same purchase\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe small panel is 90 × 60 cm, the medium 110 × 80. The gap between them is larger than the numbers suggest, because a rectangle grows in both directions at once: the medium covers roughly 60 per cent more wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe small suits a hallway, a home office, or the space above a desk. The medium wants a sofa, a bed or a wide stretch of clear wall, and at that size the individual countries become readable from across a room rather than only up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the frame changes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur piece-by-piece maps have no border at all: continents mounted straight onto the wall, with the wall itself as the ocean. This one is a rectangle with a black edge, which puts it in the same category as a framed print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe practical consequence is where it can hang. A framed rectangle sits comfortably alongside other framed things, in a gallery arrangement or above furniture. A borderless map needs clear wall around it and does not group with anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it asks of the wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne fixing, rated for a panel this size – a plasterboard anchor rather than a picture pin, and a hook rather than adhesive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the fixing is mechanical, the wall surface stops mattering. Textured plaster, brick, painted panelling and freshly painted walls are all fine, which is not true of our tape-mounted maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLiving with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDust it as you would a framed picture. The raised continents collect a little more than a flat print, so a soft brush works better than a cloth, which can catch on the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKeep it out of direct sunlight. Here the backing fades before the wood does, and as the ocean lightens the contrast that makes the continents stand out begins to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMulticolor or Graphite\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two panels share the format and the chart-grey ocean; the difference is the land. The \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-graphite-framed-panel\"\u003eGraphite panel\u003c\/a\u003e mixes slate and bronze into its continents and reads cooler; this one keeps the land entirely warm. Graphite also comes in one size only – if you need the smaller 90 × 60 format, this is the panel that offers it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if these colours belong on your wall but you want the scale and the ritual of building it yourself, the same palette exists as our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003etaped Multicolor map\u003c\/a\u003e, up to two metres wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. Small countries and island groups are simplified or omitted at this scale, and coastlines are smoothed. If you need geographic precision, a printed map serves better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"S (90*60 cm)","offer_id":47256693899395,"sku":"TCM03","price":129.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (110*80 cm)","offer_id":47258078675075,"sku":"TCM01","price":269.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/D0_9C_D0_A3_D0_9B_D0_AC_D0_A2_D0_98-13.jpg?v=1780907632"},{"product_id":"tableau-carte-des-vins-de-france-panneau-beige","title":"France Wine Map on Beige Panel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe parchment version\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same wooden France and the same printed chart as our white panel, on a smooth warm beige ground inside a light oak frame, 65 × 65 cm. Nothing is different about the map itself; the ground and the frame are the entire decision, and they make this the warmer and quieter of the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the warm ground changes it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the white panel the wooden France stands against a pale field with a weathered edge and reads as an object placed on an old chart. Here the wood, the ground and the frame belong to the same family, so the map reads as one thing, closer to marquetry than to a mounted piece. It is the easier of the two to live with in a room that already has strong colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is cut and what is printed\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrance is a warm brown base with the départements and towns engraved and the region names cut into the wood; the vineyards are raised on top as separate pieces in lighter and darker tones, standing off the base. Around the edge the chart repeats each region with its grape varieties under it, joined by a leader line, with a title cartouche and a wine seal in the corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it belongs\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWarm interiors: oak furniture, terracotta, exposed brick, a kitchen with wood in it. Against a cool grey or white room it works less hard than the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/france-wine-map-on-white-panel\"\u003ewhite panel\u003c\/a\u003e does. It arrives assembled and hangs from the fixing built into the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePanel or pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-wine-map-of-france-58-58-cm\"\u003ewooden wine map of France\u003c\/a\u003e is the same country without a chart or a frame, its region badges mounted straight on the wall around it, for a wall that can be given to one object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDecorative rather than authoritative. Vineyard boundaries are simplified to what can be cut and read at this scale, and the smallest designations are grouped. Someone who knows the regions well will notice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256695144579,"sku":"TCF01","price":139.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/S-2-2_0300fcf7-b5e3-49ad-b26c-abaaf658f959.jpg?v=1780866796"},{"product_id":"tableau-carte-des-vins-de-france-panneau-blanc","title":"France Wine Map on White Panel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA wine chart, framed and ready\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrance cut in wood and mounted on a printed chart, inside a dark walnut frame, 65 × 65 cm. The chart is pale cream with a weathered, mottled border, faint vine leaves and grape circles drawn into it, a title cartouche top left and a round wine seal bottom left, so the whole object reads as an old chart rather than a new print. It arrives assembled and hangs from the fixing built into the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow the wood and the printing share the work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wood carries the map: France as a warm brown base with the départements and towns engraved, Paris marked with a star, the region names cut into the wood, and the vineyards raised on top as separate pieces in paler and darker tones, so Bordeaux, the Loire, Burgundy and the Rhône stand off the base and throw a shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe printing carries what wood cannot at this size: around the edge, each region is named again with its grape varieties listed under it, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay under Bourgogne, Merlot and Cabernet under Bordeaux, joined to the map by a leader line. It is the difference between a map you look at and one you read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it belongs\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSquare, which places it comfortably over a sideboard or between cupboards where a landscape format would not sit. The dark frame and the aged ground suit a kitchen or dining room with some depth to it, and a room of framed things, where a borderless wooden map would not group with anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhite or beige\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map on two grounds. This one is the cooler and the more antique: cream with a weathered edge, in dark wood. The \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/france-wine-map-on-beige-panel\"\u003ebeige panel\u003c\/a\u003e is a smooth warm parchment in a light oak frame, quieter in a warm room. Neither is more detailed than the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePanel or pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you would rather build the map yourself and let the wall be the chart, the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-wine-map-of-france-58-58-cm\"\u003ewooden wine map of France\u003c\/a\u003e is the same country with its region badges mounted around it, and no frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDecorative rather than authoritative. Vineyard boundaries are simplified to what can be cut and read at this scale, and the smallest designations are grouped. Someone who knows the regions well will notice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256695177347,"sku":"TCF02","price":139.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/3D_VINs_France_PANNO_2000_D1_852000_02_Blanc.jpg?v=1780866797"},{"product_id":"tableau-carte-des-vins-d-italie-sur-panneau","title":"Italy Wine Map on Panel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eTwenty regions, all of them wine\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItaly cut in wood and mounted on a printed chart, framed in dark wood, 58 × 65 cm. What the map makes plain is a fact most people know abstractly: every one of Italy's twenty regions produces wine, from Alto Adige at the Austrian border to Sicily. France divides into a handful of famous names; Italy does not, and laid out like this the difference is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe shape is the challenge and the appeal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItaly is long and narrow, so it wastes space in a square frame, which is why this panel is taller than it is wide. The peninsula runs the height of the chart with Sardinia and Sicily in the lower left, and the printed labels take the space alongside. A recognisable silhouette carries from further away than a compact one, so this reads from across a restaurant in a way the French panels do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow the wood and the printing share the work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wood carries the map: a walnut-stained base with all twenty region names and the towns engraved, Rome with a star, and the wine zones raised on top as separate pieces in paler and darker tones. The chart around it, aged grey and mottled with faint vines, repeats the regions in pairs, Lazio-Campania, Marche-Abruzzo, Sardegna-Sicilia, each with its grape varieties listed under it: Verdicchio, Pecorino, Montepulciano, Sagrantino, Aglianico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat language it is in\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRegion names and grape varieties are in Italian; the town names on the wood are in English, Rome, Naples, Florence, Turin. There is no language option.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAssembled and framed\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArrives complete and hangs from the fixing built into the back. The aged grey ground and dark frame suit kitchens and dining rooms with wood or terracotta in them, and it belongs on a wall of framed things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePanel or pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-wine-map-of-italy\"\u003ewooden wine map of Italy\u003c\/a\u003e is the same country with no chart and no frame, its region badges shaped like jugs, glasses and corks mounted around it on the wall. If France is the subject, the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/france-wine-map-on-beige-panel\"\u003eFrench panel\u003c\/a\u003e is the companion piece in the same format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDecorative rather than authoritative. Vineyard boundaries are simplified to what can be cut and read at this scale, and the smallest denominations are grouped into their regions rather than drawn separately.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256695210115,"sku":"TCF03","price":129.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/D0_BF_D0_B0_D0_BD_D0_BE1.png?v=1780866799"},{"product_id":"tableau-carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-graphite","title":"3D Wooden World Map Graphite – Framed Panel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA finished picture, not a set of pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe panel arrives assembled. A backing board carries the continents, the whole thing sits inside a slim black frame, and there is nothing to lay out, nothing to tape, no template: it hangs like a picture, from a single fixing. At 110 × 80 cm and five kilos it is the heaviest single piece we ship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe grey does two jobs\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe backing is a mottled concrete grey, printed as an old chart: ruled meridians and parallels with a weathered wash. Everything else on the ocean – the names in wooden lettering, the compass rose, the ship's wheel, the small ships and planes – is separate wooden pieces mounted on the surface, each casting its own shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst it the continents read as warm. Slate and dark bronze mix with sand, caramel and terracotta, each country its own shade, and the cold ground pushes the land forward far more than a wooden ocean would.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eStill fully three-dimensional\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe frame does not flatten anything. The continents are stacked from plies between 4 and 9 mm, mountain regions standing tallest, and the layers cast their own shadows on the printed ground. Country names, borders, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved individually, exactly as on the taped maps. The lettering on this panel is in French only; unlike the taped maps, it is not offered in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it fits that a piece-by-piece map does not\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo situations. The first is a rented flat, or any wall where you would rather not use adhesive tape: this needs one hook. The second is the person who wants a world map on the wall this evening rather than after an afternoon of assembly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also suits the walls our tape struggles with – heavily textured plaster, brick, painted panelling – since none of that matters when the fixing is a nail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFramed, and what the frame changes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur assembled maps have an irregular outline: continents against bare wall, no border anywhere. This one is a rectangle with a defined black edge, which puts it in the same visual category as a print or a photograph rather than as an object mounted directly on the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is a real difference in how a room reads. A framed rectangle above a sofa sits comfortably in a room of other framed things. A borderless map of separate continents does not – it wants clear wall around it, and it does not hang in a gallery arrangement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it does not do\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou cannot rearrange it. On the piece-by-piece maps the continents can be spaced differently, the ocean lettering placed where you like, and the accessories moved around. Here the composition is fixed at the workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also cannot be resized to your wall. The 110 × 80 cm format is the only one this panel comes in, whereas the assembled maps run from 80 cm to two metres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLiving with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeing a single sealed panel it is easier to look after than the assembled maps: dust it as you would a framed picture, without working around raised edges. Keep it out of direct sun, which will fade the grey ground before it touches the wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe weight is worth planning for. Five kilos needs a fixing rated for it – a plasterboard anchor rather than a picture pin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePanel or pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChoose the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-graphite\"\u003etaped map\u003c\/a\u003e if you want scale and the ritual of building your wall yourself. Choose the panel if you want a finished, movable object. The same panel also exists in a \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor-framed\"\u003emulticolor version\u003c\/a\u003e, where the land runs warmer – cream and terracotta with hardly any grey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. Small countries and island groups are simplified or omitted at this scale, and coastlines are smoothed. If you need geographic precision, a printed map serves better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256695242883,"sku":"TCM02","price":269.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/D0_93_D0_A0_D0_90_D0_A4_D0_98_D0_A2-6.jpg?v=1780907514"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/collections\/D0_9C_D0_A3_D0_9B_D0_AC_D0_A2_D0_98-11.jpg?v=1789316692","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/collections\/framed-panels.oembed","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}