{"title":"Large Wooden World Maps","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSize L: the statement size, in nine maps\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll six 3D finishes come in L at 150 × 105 cm, and the three 2D maps at 150 × 100 cm – the one size where the two ranges differ by a few centimetres. There is no framed panel this large; at this size the map is always built on the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow big is it on the wall?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA metre and a half wide. The 3D maps weigh about 2.9 kg, the 2D maps 2.3 to 2.6 kg, spread across the separate pieces. Allow around 190 × 145 cm of clear wall, or 190 × 140 for a 2D map: measure the free wall, take 20 cm off each side, and what is left is the largest map that will sit comfortably there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich room suits it?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbove a sofa or a double bed, behind a dining table, on the long wall of an open-plan room. This is the size at which the individual country shapes read from the doorway and, on the 3D maps, the relief throws a shadow that moves through the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow is it mounted?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same way as every other size, piece by piece on the double-sided tape supplied: the 3D maps with a paper positioning template, the 2D maps with two corner stencils. It takes longer than an M simply because there are more pieces, not because anything is harder. Lettering in English or French, chosen at checkout. The \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/size-guide\"\u003esize guide\u003c\/a\u003e has the wall measurements; the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/xl-wooden-world-maps\"\u003eXL page\u003c\/a\u003e has the next size up.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-2d-foncee","title":"2D Wooden World Map Dark","description":"\u003ch3\u003eOne warm brown, and a white wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark is a single tone throughout: the colour of oak, warm rather than black, the same on every piece from Greenland to Antarctica. Cut from one 4 mm sheet, it lies flat against the wall, and against white, cream or pale grey it gives the strongest contrast of our flat maps, reading from the far side of a room without needing light on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a dark wall it does the opposite and disappears. Of the three flat finishes this is the one that most depends on where it goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe only world map that starts at XS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e60 × 40 cm, and no other finish or format offers it. That size fits a hallway, a stairwell, the wall beside a door or the space above a desk, places where a metre of map would take over. From there it runs through S and M to L at 150 × 100 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFlat, and what that means for the room\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 4 mm the map projects almost nothing. In a corridor or beside a doorway, where people pass close and a raised map would eventually be caught by a shoulder or a coat, that matters more than relief would. It is also lighter to handle on the day it goes up than the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003erelief version\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe figures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map comes with a set of small wooden figures to place where you like: the Statue of Liberty on the American coast and Christ the Redeemer on Brazil, the Eiffel Tower on Paris, the pyramids on Egypt, the Taj Mahal on India, a pagoda on China, the Sydney Opera House on Australia, an elephant on Africa, a penguin on Antarctica, and for the oceans a ship, a plane, a whale, an anchor and a compass. On a single-tone map they are what gives the eye somewhere to land, and children find them before they find the countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving on a brown ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals and major cities, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved individually. On this finish the lettering is a shade darker than the wood around it: clear when you stand in front of the map, quiet from across the room, which is the trade of a single-tone finish. Add push pins and it becomes a record of where you have been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA uniform stain hides gradual change well, so the map looks the same age throughout as the wood warms over years. Direct sun is the exception: it changes the exposed side and not the shaded one, and on a single tone the line between them shows. Keep it off a wall that takes afternoon sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDark or Multicolor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark is one tone and asks for a pale wall. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-multicolor-wooden-world-map\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e runs four tones from cream to walnut and holds on almost any wall, at the cost of being the busier object. If the wall is white and you want the map to read as one calm shape, this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. Small countries and island groups are simplified or omitted at this scale, and coastlines are smoothed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"XS (60*40 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256690950275,"sku":"CM059","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XS (60*40 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256690983043,"sku":"CM063","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256690917507,"sku":"CM007","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256690819203,"sku":"CM014","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256690884739,"sku":"CM008","price":94.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256690786435,"sku":"CM015","price":94.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*100 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256690851971,"sku":"CM012","price":136.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*100 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256690753667,"sku":"CM018","price":136.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/L-6_f235d92a-7b0e-4de7-a15e-414289007e55.jpg?v=1780866702"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-multicolore","title":"3D Wooden World Map Multicolor","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEvery neighbour a different wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMulticolor is the only finish where the countries differ in hue as well as in depth. Alongside the creams and browns of the other maps there is a warm terracotta, a rust red, a cold slate grey and an olive-tinged brown, distributed so that neighbouring countries almost never share a shade. Mauritania is orange-red beside a pale grey Algeria; Niger sits slate against a walnut Nigeria; Sudan is rust against a cream Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map is not painted. Every one of those shades is stained wood, so the grain runs through each country and the surface stays matt and open rather than glossy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it is the most legible map we make\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause neighbouring countries almost never repeat a colour, nearly every border is unambiguous without needing the engraved line or the physical step to explain it. On the single-tone finishes you sometimes have to look twice to see where one country ends. Here you almost never do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it the finish for anyone who will actually use the map – pointing at countries, tracing routes, explaining where somewhere is. It is also the one children read most easily, which is worth knowing if it is going into a family room rather than an office.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe trade-off, stated plainly\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVariety is the whole design, and it makes this the busiest object in the range. In a room that already has pattern – patterned rugs, gallery walls, wallpaper, open shelving full of colour – it adds to the load rather than resolving it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt works best on a plain wall with a fairly quiet room around it, where it becomes the one complicated thing in the space. That is the opposite of the advice for Light or Amber, which need something else in the room to react against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRelief that has to compete\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach continent is stacked from several plies and stands off the wall. On this finish the shadow is not what separates the countries, since the colour already does that; instead the relief adds a second layer of information on top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe practical consequence is that this map suffers least from bad lighting. Under flat overhead light, where a monochrome map goes visually dead, this one still reads because the colours carry it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving across many grounds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved individually. Since the backgrounds vary, the lettering does too: crisp and dark on the cream and sand countries, quieter on the terracotta and the slate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the shades alternate constantly across the map, the clearly readable names are spread throughout rather than clustered in one region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical – the same plies, the same borders, the same accessories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink about who will read it rather than where it will hang. If the map is for someone who will stand in front of it and look for places, their own language is the one to choose; if it is chosen for the look, either works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe small one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMulticolor is the only finish offered in a fourth, smaller size alongside the usual three – small enough for a hallway, a child's room or a first flat, and the simplest way into these maps. The same stains, the same layered relief, less wall required.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMultiple stains change at slightly different rates, and over years the palette softens as a whole: the reds warm, the greys lose a little of their coldness, the creams drift toward straw. The relationships between countries hold, so it ages as one object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDirect sunlight remains the risk, and here it is the reds that go first. On a sunlit wall the terracotta countries lose their distinction from the browns, and the map's defining quality – that neighbours almost never repeat – begins to weaken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits in the range\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-chocolate\"\u003eChocolate\u003c\/a\u003e is the most restrained finish we make, this is its opposite. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-amber\"\u003eAmber\u003c\/a\u003e let the wood be the subject; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-graphite\"\u003eGraphite\u003c\/a\u003e set a mood with tone. Multicolor is the only one built around usefulness, where the design exists to make the map easier to read. The map underneath is the same – only the finish changes.\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 (80*55 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691245187,"sku":"CM060","price":99.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691212419,"sku":"CM061","price":99.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691114115,"sku":"CM001","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691081347,"sku":"CM026","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691048579,"sku":"CM004","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691015811,"sku":"CM029","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691179651,"sku":"CM009","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691146883,"sku":"CM032","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/XL-2-1_8e391255-1cf8-4a97-bc73-512fe1e68a58.jpg?v=1780866704"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-ambree","title":"3D Wooden World Map Amber","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHoney over pale wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmber sits between the pale Light finish and the browns. The base stays close to natural birch, and a warm honey stain is laid over parts of it, so most of the map is pale with individual countries pulled forward in tan and gold. Turkey, Kazakhstan, Libya and Sudan carry the strongest colour; Egypt, Niger and Saudi Arabia stay almost bare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wood grain remains visible through the whole thing. On the pale countries you see it directly; on the stained ones it shows through the colour, since the stain deepens the wood rather than covering it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat being light does on a wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the finish that adds a map to a room without adding weight to it. Pale walls take it easily, and it does not darken a small space the way the browns can. In a room with a lot of white and natural wood it belongs rather than announces itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe reverse is also true and worth knowing before you order. Against a very pale wall the contrast is low, and from across a large room the map reads as texture rather than as a distinct object. If you want something that carries a wall on its own, the darker finishes do that better – or give Amber a genuinely dark wall, where the gold glows, which is exactly how we photograph it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eShadow does the work here\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the surface is pale and the tonal contrast between countries is modest, the relief is what defines the map. Each continent is stacked from several plies and stands off the wall, and on a light ground those shadows read as clean dark lines around every landmass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLighting matters here more than you might expect. Under a lamp to one side the map gains structure and the continents separate sharply; under flat overhead light it softens and flattens. Some people move a lamp after hanging it – it is worth trying before deciding where the map lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving on a pale ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved individually. On this finish the laser burns noticeably darker than the surface, so the lettering is as crisp as anything we make – brown text on cream, legible from across a room on almost every country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf someone is likely to stand in front of the map and read it, this is a finish that supports that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical – the same plies, the same borders, the same accessories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink about who will read it rather than where it will hang. If the map is for someone who will stand in front of it and look for places, their own language is the one to choose; if it is chosen for the look, either works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAgeing, and the one honest warning\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePale wood changes more visibly than dark wood. Birch warms naturally over years, drifting from cream toward straw, and that will happen here whatever you do – evenly, across the whole map, which looks like age rather than damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDirect sunlight is different and is the thing to avoid on this finish more than on any other. Sun bleaches the honey stain faster than it warms the bare wood, so a sunlit map loses its contrast: the stained countries drift toward the pale ones and the design flattens. Away from a sunlit wall, dusted dry, it holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAmber or Light\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are the two pale finishes and they answer different needs. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e stays within cream, straw and pale greige, and its variation is quiet. Amber introduces deliberate colour, so the countries separate by tone as well as by shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChoose Light if you want the wood itself to be the subject. Choose Amber if you want the map to be readable as a map while staying pale.\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\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe same map, six ways\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmber is one of six finishes. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e is the palest, cream and straw under a clear coat; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e is a many-toned warm brown and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-chocolate\"\u003eChocolate\u003c\/a\u003e the deepest of the warm family; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-graphite\"\u003eGraphite\u003c\/a\u003e leaves the wood tones for slate; and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e mixes every stain in the workshop. The map underneath is the same – only the finish changes. Multicolor is also the only finish cut in a smaller fourth size, S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691376259,"sku":"CM022","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691343491,"sku":"CM039","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691310723,"sku":"CM023","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691277955,"sku":"CM042","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691441795,"sku":"CM035","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691409027,"sku":"CM045","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/AmbreeL.png?v=1780866708"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-chocolat","title":"3D Wooden World Map Chocolate","description":"\u003ch3\u003eTwo tones, alternating\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChocolate is the most restrained finish we make. Rather than distributing many shades across the map, it works with essentially two: a warm honey oak and a dark smoked brown, alternating from country to country. Poland light, Germany dark, Turkey light, Kazakhstan dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is closer to marquetry than to a painted map. It reads as inlaid woodwork, and the eye follows the alternation rather than looking for a colour it recognises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the alternation matters\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause only two tones are in play, most borders are a full tonal switch rather than a gradual shift. Egypt against Sudan, Iran against Iraq – light against dark, the whole way round.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives this finish an unusual quality on a wall. From a distance it resolves into a pattern of interlocking light and dark shapes, and the fact that the shapes are countries becomes secondary. People notice it as a graphic object before they notice it is a map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe deepest of the warm finishes, and what that asks of the room\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf the wood-toned finishes this sits deepest. Against white it produces a strong graphic contrast. Against dark green, navy or an exposed brick wall it settles in rather than competing, which the paler finishes cannot do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat it will not tolerate is a busy background. The alternating pattern is itself a pattern, and wallpaper underneath turns both into visual noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eShadow on a dark ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe continents are stacked from several plies, so the land stands off the wall and throws a shadow. Here that shadow falls onto surfaces that are already dark, which means the relief is carried by the tonal alternation rather than by the shadow itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSide lighting changes this map less than it changes the paler finishes. If your wall is evenly lit, this is the finish that suffers least from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving, split between the two tones\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved individually. On the honey countries the lettering reads clearly at a distance. On the smoked ones it is quiet – visible when you are close, a texture rather than text from across the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince the two tones alternate, the readable and the subtle names are interleaved across the whole map rather than clustered in one region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical – the same plies, the same borders, the same accessories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink about who will read it rather than where it will hang. If the map is for someone who will stand in front of it and look for places, their own language is the one to choose; if it is chosen for the look, either works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA deep stain is more forgiving of dust than a pale one, but it shows fingerprints on the raised edges more readily. Handle the pieces by their faces during mounting rather than by the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKeep it out of direct sun. On a two-tone finish uneven fading is particularly visible, because the gap between light and dark is the whole design: as the exposed side lightens, the alternation weakens on one part of the map and not the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eChocolate or Dark\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two are often compared. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e spreads its tones across a wider range, from near-cream to walnut, so it stays legible as a map from a distance. Chocolate holds to two tones and reads as a single dark object with a pattern in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want a world map on the wall, Dark. If you want a piece of dark wooden wall art that happens to be a map, this one.\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\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe same map, six ways\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChocolate is one of six finishes. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e is the palest, cream and straw under a clear coat; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-amber\"\u003eAmber\u003c\/a\u003e is honey-gold and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e a many-toned warm brown; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-graphite\"\u003eGraphite\u003c\/a\u003e leaves the wood tones for slate; and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e mixes every stain in the workshop. The map underneath is the same – only the finish changes. Multicolor is also the only finish cut in a smaller fourth size, S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691572867,"sku":"CM024","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691540099,"sku":"CM040","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691507331,"sku":"CM025","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691474563,"sku":"CM043","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691638403,"sku":"CM036","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691605635,"sku":"CM046","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/ChocoL.png?v=1780866707"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-claire","title":"3D Wooden World Map Light","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe palest map we make\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Light finish is the palest map we make. Every country sits within a narrow band of cream, straw and pale greige under a clear protective coat, so the wood grain stays visible across every continent and the map reads as material rather than as a painted object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt works where a darker map would sit too heavily: white and off-white walls, pale oak floors, Scandinavian and Japandi interiors, small rooms where a dark mass would close the space in. Against a dark wall it flips the effect entirely and behaves like a light drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the other finishes separate countries by tone, this one leaves most of that work to the step between layers and the shadow it throws, which is why it is the finish most changed by where you hang it and how it is lit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow the layers work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach continent is cut and assembled from several plies rather than one flat sheet. The land sits proud of the wall, so the map casts its own shadow – sharp in the morning, soft and wide by evening. On a wall lit from one side the relief is visible from across the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the layers vary in height, the total depth changes between areas of the map. Mountain regions stand furthest from the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is actually engraved\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders and capitals are engraved individually, including internal divisions like US states and Canadian provinces. Antarctica is included. A set of wooden accessories comes with the map – a compass, two planes, a boat, an anchor and a whale – to place across the oceans wherever you like. The ocean names come as separate wooden lettering, so you decide where they sit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd push pins and the map turns into a record of where you have been – the reason many customers come back later for a second set of pins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical – the same plies, the same borders, the same accessories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink about who will read it rather than where it will hang. If the map is for someone who will stand in front of it and look for places, their own language is the one to choose; if it is chosen for the look, either works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf all six, this is the finish where time shows soonest. Birch warms over years, cream drifting toward straw, and here it happens across the whole map at once, so it reads as age rather than as damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDirect sunlight is different and matters more here than on any other finish. Bare wood shifts where the light falls and stays put where it does not, and on a map that shows as a visible line across the continents. Keep it off a wall that takes afternoon sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a decorative object, not a cartographic instrument. At this scale some small countries and island groups are simplified or left out, and coastlines are smoothed. If you need geographic precision, a printed map will serve you better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLiving with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWood responds to its surroundings. Keep the map away from bathrooms, unventilated kitchens and radiators, and out of direct sunlight, which will change the surface unevenly over a few years. Dust it dry – no abrasives, no wet cloths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe same map, six ways\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLight is one of six finishes of this map. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-amber\"\u003eAmber\u003c\/a\u003e is honey-gold and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e a many-toned warm brown; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-chocolate\"\u003eChocolate\u003c\/a\u003e is the deepest of the warm family; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-graphite\"\u003eGraphite\u003c\/a\u003e leaves the wood tones for slate; and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e mixes every stain in the workshop. The map underneath is the same – only the finish changes. Multicolor is also the only finish cut in a smaller fourth size, S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691703939,"sku":"CM003","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691671171,"sku":"CM028","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691769475,"sku":"CM006","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691736707,"sku":"CM031","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691835011,"sku":"CM021","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691802243,"sku":"CM038","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/3D-Light-FR-L-3.jpg?v=1787935229"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-foncee","title":"3D Wooden World Map Dark","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWarm brown, worked in many tones\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark is not a single dark colour. The palette runs from pale cream through honey and tan into deep walnut, and the tones are distributed country by country rather than by region, so Germany sits pale against a walnut France and Algeria reads mid-brown beside a light Niger. Nothing repeats in a predictable pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe overall impression from a few metres away is of a warm brown map. Up close it is a mosaic, and that is the finish's real character: it looks calm at a distance and detailed when you approach it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the mid-tones do their work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe contrast between neighbouring countries is what carries this finish. On a very pale or very dark map the borders rely on the engraved line and the physical step between plies. Here the tonal difference does most of the work, so the political divisions are readable from further back than on the quieter finishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe trade-off is that it wants a plain wall. Against wallpaper, brick or a strongly coloured surface the internal variation competes with the background, and the mosaic effect turns into noise. White, cream, pale grey and soft green all work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eShadow against a brown ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe continents are stacked from several plies, so the land stands off the wall and casts a shadow. On this finish that shadow falls on a mid-brown surface rather than on cream, which softens it: the relief reads as depth rather than as a hard outline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou notice it most where a light country sits beside a dark one. The step between them is doubled by the tonal change, and those edges catch the eye first when the map is lit from the side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving at mid-tone\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery country name, border, capital, US state, Canadian province and Australian state is engraved individually. The laser darkens the surface, so on the pale countries the lettering is crisp and on the walnut ones it is subtler – a shift in sheen more than in colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn practice you read the names on the light countries from across the room and lean in for the dark ones. That is a fair description of how the map is used rather than a flaw: nobody stands and reads a wall map end to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical – the same plies, the same borders, the same accessories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink about who will read it rather than where it will hang. If the map is for someone who will stand in front of it and look for places, their own language is the one to choose; if it is chosen for the look, either works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMulti-tone finishes hide gradual change better than uniform ones. As the wood warms slightly over years, all the tones shift together and the relationships between them stay intact, so the map looks the same age throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDirect sun is still the thing to avoid, since it lightens unevenly and the pale countries reach their limit first. Away from a sunlit wall, and dusted dry rather than wiped, it holds its tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eChoosing between Dark and Chocolate\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese two are the closest pair in the range and worth separating before you order. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-chocolate\"\u003eChocolate\u003c\/a\u003e is deeper and quieter: the tones sit within a narrower band, and the map reads as a single dark object. Dark keeps more distance between its lightest and darkest countries, so it stays legible as a map from further away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePut simply, Chocolate is the more furniture-like of the two, Dark the more map-like.\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\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe same map, six ways\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark is one of six finishes. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e is the palest, cream and straw under a clear coat; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-amber\"\u003eAmber\u003c\/a\u003e is honey-gold; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-chocolate\"\u003eChocolate\u003c\/a\u003e is the deepest of the warm family; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-graphite\"\u003eGraphite\u003c\/a\u003e leaves the wood tones for slate; and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e mixes every stain in the workshop. The map underneath is the same – only the finish changes. Multicolor is also the only finish cut in a smaller fourth size, S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691998851,"sku":"CM002","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691900547,"sku":"CM027","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691966083,"sku":"CM005","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691867779,"sku":"CM030","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256692031619,"sku":"CM020","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691933315,"sku":"CM037","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/3d-dark-fr-7.jpg?v=1788953528"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-graphite","title":"3D Wooden World Map Graphite","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSlate and stone rather than wood tones\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGraphite is the finish that steps furthest from the wood tones. Slate, ash and near-black plies make up most of the map, with sand and copper countries scattered through as relief – Iran in pale sand, Japan in warm copper. Beside it, every other finish reads as warm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe effect on a wall is closer to stone or metal than to timber. Where the Light finish announces that it is made of wood, this one hides it: at a distance the grain reads as texture rather than as material, and people tend to ask what it is made from before they ask where it came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the grey earns its place\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the finish for rooms that already have a strong wood presence and cannot take more. Oak floors, walnut furniture, an exposed beam – a warm map in that setting competes, and this one does not. It also holds up against concrete, black steel and dark green paint, which the paler finishes disappear into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst a white wall it produces the sharpest contrast we offer, and that is worth knowing in both directions. The map will dominate the room rather than sit in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the darkness does to the relief\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery 3D map casts its own shadow, since the continents are built from stacked plies rather than a single sheet. On the pale finishes that shadow is the main thing you see from across a room. Here it competes with the colour: a dark grey country against a dark grey shadow reads as one mass until you are close enough to see the step.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe compensation is that side lighting works harder on this finish than on any other. A lamp placed to one side rather than in front of it will separate the layers dramatically, and the map changes character between daylight and evening more than the paler versions do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving on a mixed ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved individually on every map we make. Here the sand and copper countries are the most legible on the board, the engraving burning dark against pale wood; the deepest grey plies ask for a step closer. Reading this map is a game of near and far, and the big sand countries are where a visitor starts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical – the same plies, the same borders, the same accessories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink about who will read it rather than where it will hang. If the map is for someone who will stand in front of it and look for places, their own language is the one to choose; if it is chosen for the look, either works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAgeing, and one thing to avoid\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark surfaces show dust sooner than pale ones, particularly on the upper edges of each ply where it settles. A dry brush along the top of the continents once a month is enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDirect sunlight is the real risk. Every wooden finish shifts over years, but a dark stain fades unevenly and visibly: the exposed side lightens while the shaded side does not, and on a map that means Asia and Africa drifting apart in tone. Keep it off a wall that takes afternoon sun.\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\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe same map, six ways\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGraphite is one of six finishes of this map. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e is the palest, cream and straw under a clear coat; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-amber\"\u003eAmber\u003c\/a\u003e is honey-gold and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e a many-toned warm brown; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-chocolate\"\u003eChocolate\u003c\/a\u003e is the deepest of the warm family; and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e mixes every stain in the workshop. The map underneath is the same – only the finish changes. Multicolor is also the only finish cut in a smaller fourth size, S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256692457603,"sku":"CM033","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256692392067,"sku":"CM041","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256692424835,"sku":"CM034","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256692359299,"sku":"CM044","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256692523139,"sku":"CM049","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256692490371,"sku":"CM047","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/3d-graph-fr-6.jpg?v=1788948003"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-2d-claire","title":"2D Wooden World Map Light","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBare birch, and it needs a dark wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLight is the colour of the birch itself, the palest map we make, cut from a single 4 mm sheet. On navy, charcoal, forest green or exposed brick the continents read instantly and the engraving holds from across a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a white wall it will not. There is no shadow on a flat map to separate pale wood from a pale surface, and this is the finish where that matters most. If the wall is white, choose \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-multicolor-wooden-world-map\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe grain is the only variation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery country is the same tone as its neighbour, so nothing separates them but the engraved border. What varies instead is the birch itself: the grain runs differently through each piece, and on a dark wall that reads as texture across the whole map. It is the most material of our finishes; the map announces what it is made of before what it depicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFlat, and light\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e4 mm and a single layer, so it barely projects from the wall and is the lightest world map in the range to handle. Beside a door or along a corridor it is out of the way of shoulders and coats, which the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003erelief version\u003c\/a\u003e is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe figures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA set of small wooden figures comes with the map, to place where you like: the Statue of Liberty on the American coast and Christ the Redeemer on Brazil, the Eiffel Tower on Paris, the pyramids on Egypt, the Taj Mahal on India, a pagoda on China, the Sydney Opera House on Australia, an elephant on Africa, a penguin on Antarctica, and a ship, a plane, a whale, an anchor and a compass for the oceans. On the pale wood they read as small dark silhouettes, and they are usually the first thing a visitor touches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving on bare wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals and major cities, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states, engraved individually. The laser burns darker than the surface, so the lettering is brown on cream and as crisp as any map we cut; this is the flat map to choose if someone will stand and read it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages, and the one thing to avoid\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBare birch warms over years, drifting from cream toward straw. That happens evenly across the map and reads as age rather than damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDirect sunlight is different. It changes the wood where the light falls and not where it does not, and on a map that shows as a visible line across the continents. Keep it off a sunlit wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. 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Because the map already contrasts with itself, it does not depend on the wall behind it to do that job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it the safest choice of the three flat world maps. Pale wall, dark wall, brick, wallpaper: some part of it stands out either way, which the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e finishes cannot claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the tones do, and what they do not\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tones change by block rather than country by country, so within a block, most of Africa or most of China, neighbours share a shade and the engraved line marks the border. If you want every country in its own colour, that is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003erelief Multicolor\u003c\/a\u003e. Here the blocks give the map a rhythm from across the room and keep it calmer up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe trade-off\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVariety is the design, and it makes this the busiest of the flat maps. In a room that already carries pattern, wallpaper, a gallery wall, open shelving full of colour, it adds to the load rather than resolving it. The single-tone finishes are the quieter choice in a busy room; this one wants a plain wall and becomes the one complicated thing in the space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe figures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map comes with a set of small wooden figures to place where you like: the Statue of Liberty on the American coast and Christ the Redeemer on Brazil, the Eiffel Tower on Paris, the pyramids on Egypt, the Taj Mahal on India, a pagoda on China, the Sydney Opera House on Australia, an elephant on Africa, a penguin on Antarctica, and a ship, a plane, a whale, an anchor and a compass for the oceans. On the pale blocks they read as silhouettes, on the dark ones as drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving across four grounds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals and major cities, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states, engraved individually. 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