{"title":"Maps \u0026 Wall Decor","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWall decoration that is made of something\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe maps here are cut from birch plywood and engraved rather than printed, and even the framed panels carry engraved wood over their printed chart. That is the difference between these and a poster, a canvas or a framed print: the surface has depth, the shadows move as the light does, and the object reads as material before it reads as an image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA print is looked at once. A wooden map with a hundred engraved country names is read repeatedly, which is why these end up on walls people stand beside rather than walk past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is in this collection?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wooden-world-maps\"\u003eWorld maps\u003c\/a\u003e in two constructions – layered ones that stand off the wall and flat ones that lie almost against it – in finishes from bare birch to near-black. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/maps-of-france\"\u003eMaps of France\u003c\/a\u003e by région or by wine region, and wine maps of France and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/maps-of-italy\"\u003eItaly\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/framed-panels\"\u003eFramed panels\u003c\/a\u003e that arrive assembled. And the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/map-accessories\"\u003epins\u003c\/a\u003e that turn any of them into a record of where somebody has been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSizes run from 50 cm to two metres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich piece for which room?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hallway or an entrance.\u003c\/strong\u003e The hardest wall in most houses: narrow, passed close, and rarely large enough for anything substantial. This is where our smallest formats belong – a 2D map at 60 × 40 cm, or a map of France at 50 × 51 cm. Choose flat over layered here, because in a corridor a raised map eventually meets a shoulder or a coat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dining room.\u003c\/strong\u003e The best room in the house for a wine map, because it is the only wall people sit and look at for two hours at a time. Detail rewards a seated viewer in a way it never does in a corridor. A framed panel suits a dining room already hung with pictures; a piece-by-piece map suits a plain wall that can carry an object on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA kitchen.\u003c\/strong\u003e Warm finishes work here – Amber, Dark, the wine maps with their warm bases – because a kitchen usually has wood in it already and a cold grey map fights that. Keep any wooden piece away from directly above a hob, where heat, steam and grease will reach it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA living room.\u003c\/strong\u003e The largest formats belong here and nowhere else. An L or XL map needs a clear run of wall, ideally above a sofa or a sideboard, and it needs light from the side rather than straight on if it is a layered one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn office or a study.\u003c\/strong\u003e A world map behind a desk is the oldest idea in interior decoration and it still works, because it is the one wall a person looks at while thinking. This is also where the pins matter most: a map that records something is better company than one that only decorates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA restaurant, a wine bar or a cellar door.\u003c\/strong\u003e Wine maps read from a table, which is the distance that matters commercially. The panels hang from one fixing and come down cleanly, which matters when the wall is not yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich finish for which interior style?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScandinavian.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pale wood on white or soft grey, minimal ornament, everything a shade lighter than you expect. Our Light and Amber finishes are made for this – pale or honey-stained birch, with the relief doing the work instead of colour. Avoid the dark finishes here; they read as heavy against a Scandinavian palette rather than as contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJapandi.\u003c\/strong\u003e The same restraint with more warmth and more shadow. Japandi rooms want texture at low contrast, which is precisely what a layered map in Light or Amber gives: nothing bright, nothing loud, and a surface that changes through the day. The 3D construction matters more here than the finish does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndustrial.\u003c\/strong\u003e Concrete, black steel, exposed brick. This is where Graphite belongs and where nothing else in our range works as well – it is the only finish that leaves the wood family for slate and cold grey, and against warm brick it holds its own rather than blending in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRustic and modern rustic.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rooms that already have beams, oak floors or reclaimed timber have a problem: more wood competes rather than complements. Graphite solves it, and so does the Multicolor, whose variation reads as pattern rather than as another brown surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBohemian.\u003c\/strong\u003e Layered textiles, plants, colour, pattern from several directions at once. Multicolor is the map most likely to survive this, because its countries separate from each other rather than depending on the wall to do it. A single-tone map disappears into a busy room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinimalist.\u003c\/strong\u003e One object on one wall. Any finish works, and the size is the whole decision – go a size larger than feels comfortable, because a map that is too small for its wall looks lost in a way that a slightly large one never does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy match the finish to the wall, not the room?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the wall is what the map has to separate itself from. This is the rule that catches people out, and it applies to every piece here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePale finishes need a dark wall.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cream birch on navy, charcoal, forest green or brick reads instantly. The same map on white is barely visible until you are close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDark finishes need a pale wall.\u003c\/strong\u003e Charcoal or walnut continents on white or cream give the strongest contrast we can offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMulticolor works on either\u003c\/strong\u003e, because its countries differ from each other rather than from the background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rule matters more on our flat maps than on the layered ones. A 3D map has shadow to separate it from the wall; a 2D map has nothing but the colour behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow do they go up?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost of what is here mounts on double-sided tape, piece by piece: the layered maps positioned with a paper template, the flat ones with two corner stencils, the wine maps with their vineyard pieces already taped. Nothing is drilled and nothing is permanent, though a mounted map needs a hairdryer and fresh tape to move.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe framed panels are the exception: they arrive assembled and hang from one fixing in a few minutes. If the wall is textured, papered, freshly painted or rented, that is the format to choose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow do you look after wood on a wall?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKeep it out of direct sunlight. Wood warms over years wherever it is, which reads as age rather than damage – but sun does it unevenly, and a faded side drifting away from a shaded one is the one thing that looks like a fault rather than like time passing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAway from radiators, away from bathrooms, away from directly above a hob. Dust it dry; nothing wet, nothing oiled.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"punaises-drapeaux-du-monde-291-pieces","title":"291 national flag pins","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEvery flag named on the card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred and ninety-one flags, each printed on a domed pin head and each labelled with its country underneath. That labelling is the part that matters: without it you are hunting for Kiribati among two hundred and ninety small circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cards are organised in sections – countries of the world, then the states of the USA, the provinces of Canada, the states of Australia – with each section titled, so a flag goes back to a findable place as easily as it came out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePins stay in the card until you use them\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey arrive pressed into printed kraft cards rather than loose in a box. Take out the ones you need and the rest stay ordered, named and findable a year later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is a practical difference rather than a packaging one. A traveller uses a handful of flags at a time, and a box of unsorted pins becomes unusable the moment it is tipped out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow many you will actually use\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFewer than you think. Unless you have visited half the world, you will place a few dozen at most, so the set is not a consumable – it is a reference you draw from as you travel, over years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe countries you have not been to are the point of the other two hundred and sixty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFitting them to the map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pin is a steel point that pushes into plywood by hand, anywhere you choose – our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wooden-world-maps\"\u003emaps\u003c\/a\u003e are not pre-drilled, so a flag is never limited to someone else's idea of where the holes should be. On the layered 3D maps it goes into the country itself; on the 2D maps, through the flat panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorth knowing before you order: on the smallest map sizes some countries are too small to take a pin of this diameter without covering their neighbours. On the S format the flags work for larger countries only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e291 flag pins on printed cards, in a kraft sleeve with a world map on the cover. It is a gift as it arrives, with no wrapping needed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690327683,"sku":"CWPI01","price":29.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/pins2.jpg?v=1780866684"},{"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. 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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. Small countries and island groups are simplified or omitted at this scale, and coastlines are smoothed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256692883587,"sku":"CM010","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256692785283,"sku":"CM016","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256692850819,"sku":"CM011","price":94.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256692752515,"sku":"CM017","price":94.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*100 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256692818051,"sku":"CM013","price":136.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*100 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256692719747,"sku":"CM019","price":136.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Calire-L-MAIN.png?v=1780866726"},{"product_id":"punaises-avions-45-pieces","title":"Decorative plane pins","description":"\u003ch3\u003eForty-five planes on pins\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhite aircraft folded like paper darts, 2.8 cm long, mounted on steel points. They mark a route rather than a place: a line of planes across an ocean reads as a flight, where a row of flags reads as a list.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty-five is enough to trace several journeys across a large map, with spares for the trips you have not taken yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat they do that flags do not\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA flag says you were somewhere. A plane says how you got there. Used together the map gains a second layer: destinations in flags, connections in aircraft, and the empty ocean between them stops being empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey also work where flags cannot. There is no flag for a stopover, a long-haul route or a place you flew over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe white is deliberate\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlain white against a stained wooden map is the highest contrast available without introducing another colour. 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They are the only marker in this range with a shape rather than a dot or a flag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed is the colour that carries furthest across our finishes, from the palest Light to the near-black Graphite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat people use them for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarking a category rather than a place. Red for where you are going next, plain wood for where you have been. Red for family, plain for work. The distinction is yours; the point is that two different markers let a map carry two kinds of information at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsed alone on a large map, forty-five is enough for a lifetime of highlights without covering it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe shape matters at distance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA round pin becomes a dot from four metres away. This one keeps its outline, and the pierced star catches the colour behind it, which is what makes it visible from across a room where a plain marker is not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693047427,"sku":"CWPI04","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Hec34117d5e9f4fdea44bb857d6751b38e.png?v=1780866729"},{"product_id":"punaises-rondes-en-bois","title":"Decorative round wooden pins","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe plain option, and the quietest\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall wooden balls, one centimetre across, on steel points, finished in a warm gold-brown close to the tone of stained birch. No printing, no flag, no shape – a dot on the map and nothing more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause they are wood in a wood tone, they stay closer to the map's own palette than any printed or painted marker can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhen a plain pin is the right one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFlags identify a country. Plain pins mark a spot, which is what you want for a city rather than a nation: three pins in France say Paris, Lyon and Biarritz, where one French flag says only France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey also suit anyone who wants the map to stay a decorative object. A wall of flags is a record; a scatter of small wooden dots is texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA hundred is a lot\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnough to mark every city on a lifetime of travelling, and enough to share. The count exists because plain pins get used in numbers that flags do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBeyond the map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey work on cork, softboard and photo walls exactly as they do on plywood, so what is left over does not go to waste.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693080195,"sku":"CWPI02","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/98f6fd326618dc4f58eafdbd89c0803a.jpg?v=1780866730"},{"product_id":"carte-de-france-en-bois-3d-multicolore","title":"3D Wooden Map of France, Multicolor","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFrance by region, then by département\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map is cut so that each of the thirteen metropolitan regions is a separate wooden shape in its own shade: Bretagne in rust, Pays de la Loire in pale cream, Nouvelle-Aquitaine in dark walnut, Occitanie in burnt orange. Corsica is the thirteenth, sitting apart to the lower right, as it does on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside each region the départements are engraved rather than cut, with their boundaries drawn as fine lines and their names set within them. The region names run in larger lettering across each shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe level of detail this actually carries\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery département is named. So are the towns – not only Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Strasbourg, but Alençon, Cholet, Rodez and Carcassonne. Rivers are engraved as thin lines running across the regions rather than stopping at boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe practical effect is that this reads as a real reference map from close up, in a way that a world map at this size cannot. On a world map France is one shape; here it is a hundred named places, and the first thing every French visitor does is lean in and look for theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho this is for, and it is a narrower group\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA world map is bought for what it looks like as often as for where the buyer has been. This one is bought about France specifically: by someone who lives there, comes from there, has moved away from there, or spends their holidays in one particular corner of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also works differently as a gift. With a world map you cannot get it wrong. With this one, the person receiving it either has a relationship with France or does not, and the level of engraved detail matters mainly to the first group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the layers do at this size\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe regions are cut from stacked plies, so each sits proud of the wall and casts its own shadow, and the boundaries between regions are physical steps rather than printed lines. At 50 × 51 cm the whole map is roughly the size of a large framed photograph, so those shadows are fine rather than dramatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the smallest of our relief maps. That has a practical consequence: unlike our world maps it does not need to dominate a wall, and it can sit beside other things – in a hallway, between windows, above a desk – without needing clear space around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne thing to check before you order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe engraving is in French. Region names, département names and towns all use their French forms, which is correct for the subject but worth knowing if the map is going to somebody who reads no French. Unlike our world maps, this one is not offered in an English version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLiving with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same care as the larger maps, with one difference that comes from the scale. The engraved département lines are fine, and dust settles into them more readily than it does on a plain surface. A soft dry brush clears them; a damp cloth will smear rather than lift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKeep it out of direct sunlight, which lightens the pale regions faster than the dark ones and gradually flattens the distinction between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrance three ways\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe make the country in three forms. This relief map is the wall piece. The \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-multicolor-wooden-map-of-france\"\u003e2D version\u003c\/a\u003e is flatter, lighter and quieter on the wall. And the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/france-discovery-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eFrance Discovery puzzle\u003c\/a\u003e is the same shape as an evening's work: an illustrated tour you assemble yourself before it becomes decor. The stains here match our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003eMulticolor world map\u003c\/a\u003e – hung in the same home, they read as a set.\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. The engraving reaches an astonishing number of towns, but not all of them – the smallest communes are left out, and boundaries are simplified at this scale. If yours is missing, write to us and we will commiserate; the wood is only so wide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693211267,"sku":"CM048","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/188.jpg?v=1780866735"},{"product_id":"carte-de-france-en-bois-2d-multicolore","title":"2D Wooden Map of France, Multicolor","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFrance, region by region, in warm wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the thirteen regions is cut as its own piece in its own shade, cream, honey, chestnut, dark walnut and a grey-brown, with Corsica set apart to the lower right as it is on the ground. Inside each region the départements are engraved rather than cut, their boundaries drawn as fine lines with the names set within them, and the towns engraved between: not only Paris, Lyon and Marseille but Alençon, Cholet and Chartres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWarm throughout, which is what separates it from our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-graphite-wooden-map-of-france\"\u003eGraphite version\u003c\/a\u003e of the same map. Against pale walls and light wood furniture it belongs; against cold grey or navy the Graphite does better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA landmark on nearly every region\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall wooden figures sit on the regions: Mont-Saint-Michel on Normandie, the Eiffel Tower on Paris, the cathedral and a champagne bottle on Grand Est, Château de Chambord on Centre-Val de Loire, a sailing ship off Bretagne, a wedge of cheese on Pays de la Loire, a bottle on Nouvelle-Aquitaine, grapes on Bourgogne, the Puy de Dôme on Auvergne, a castle on Occitanie, a yacht on Provence. They are the first thing a French visitor looks for, right after their own town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMore named places than a world map carries\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt this scale that level of detail is possible in a way it is not on a world map, where France is one shape. Here it is a hundred named places, and the map reads as a reference from close up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho buys it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeople with a relationship to a particular part of France rather than to the country in general: someone who lives there, comes from there, moved away, or spends every summer in one corner of it. That makes it a narrower gift than a world map. With a world map you cannot get it wrong; with this one the recipient either has a connection to France or does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSmall, flat, and easy to place\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e50 × 51 cm and 4 mm thick, roughly the size of a large framed photograph and projecting almost nothing from the wall. Unlike our world maps it does not need to dominate a wall, and it sits beside other things: in a hallway, between windows, above a desk. It goes up on double-sided tape in a couple of hours, outer pieces first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne thing to know before ordering\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe engraving is in French. Region names, départements and towns all use their French forms, which is correct for the subject and worth knowing if the map is going to someone who reads none. There is no English version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLiving with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe engraved département lines are fine and collect dust more readily than a plain surface. A soft dry brush clears them; a damp cloth smears rather than lifts. Keep it out of direct sun, which lightens the pale regions faster than the dark ones and gradually flattens the distinction between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrance three ways\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the flat version. The \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/multicolor-3d-wooden-map-of-france\"\u003erelief map\u003c\/a\u003e stacks each region so it stands off the wall and casts a shadow; the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-graphite-wooden-map-of-france\"\u003eGraphite\u003c\/a\u003e is this same map in slate and grey. If the interest is wine rather than geography, the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wine-maps\"\u003ewine maps of France\u003c\/a\u003e divide the country by vineyard instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. Coastlines are simplified and the smallest features are omitted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693342339,"sku":"CM050","price":42.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/2d-multi.jpg?v=1780866740"},{"product_id":"carte-de-france-en-bois-2d-graphite","title":"2D Wooden Map of France, Graphite","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFrance in slate and grey\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same thirteen regions as our Multicolor map, cut as separate pieces, but in a cool palette: near-black, slate, a mid grey, with a few regions in cream and honey to keep it from going flat. Corsica sits apart to the lower right. Inside each region the départements are engraved with their names, and the towns between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the version for a room that already has warm wood in it, or for cold-toned walls where the warm map would fight the colour. Against navy, dark green or white it holds its own; against oak furniture it does not compete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA landmark on nearly every region\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same small wooden figures as on the Multicolor map: Mont-Saint-Michel on Normandie, the Eiffel Tower on Paris, the cathedral and a champagne bottle on Grand Est, Château de Chambord on Centre-Val de Loire, a sailing ship off Bretagne, a wedge of cheese on Pays de la Loire, a bottle on Nouvelle-Aquitaine, grapes on Bourgogne, the Puy de Dôme on Auvergne, a castle on Occitanie, a yacht on Provence. On the dark regions they read as silhouettes; on the pale ones as drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving on a mixed ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lettering burns dark, so on the cream and honey regions it is crisp from across a room and on the slate ones it asks you to come closer. Reading this map is a game of near and far, and the pale regions are where a visitor starts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSmall, flat, and easy to place\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e50 × 51 cm and 4 mm thick, roughly a large framed photograph, projecting almost nothing from the wall. It sits beside other things, in a hallway, between windows, above a desk, and goes up on double-sided tape in a couple of hours, outer pieces first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne thing to know before ordering\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe engraving is in French: region names, départements and towns all use their French forms. There is no English version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLiving with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark surfaces show dust sooner than pale ones, and the fine département lines hold it. A soft dry brush clears them; a damp cloth smears. Keep it out of direct sun, which fades the dark regions unevenly and shows the difference between the sunlit and shaded halves more plainly than on the warm map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrance three ways\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the flat version in cool tones. The \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-multicolor-wooden-map-of-france\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e is the same map in warm woods; the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/multicolor-3d-wooden-map-of-france\"\u003erelief map\u003c\/a\u003e stacks each region so it stands off the wall. If the interest is wine, the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wine-maps\"\u003ewine maps of France\u003c\/a\u003e divide the country by vineyard instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. Coastlines are simplified and the smallest features are omitted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693375107,"sku":"CM051","price":42.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/2d-graphite.jpg?v=1780866741"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-2d-multicolore","title":"2D Multicolor Wooden World Map","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFour woods, and the wall stops mattering\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream, honey, chestnut and dark walnut, laid across the map in blocks: a near-black Canada beside a cream United States, a walnut Brazil beside pale neighbours, a honey Africa against a dark Australia. 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. Since the grounds vary, the lettering does too: crisp on the cream and honey blocks, quieter on the chestnut and walnut ones. The readable names are spread across the 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral stains change at slightly different rates, so the palette softens as a whole over years while the relationships between the blocks hold. In direct sun the darker stains fade first and the contrast that defines the map begins to weaken. Keep it off a wall that takes afternoon sun.\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":"S (80*55 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256693571715,"sku":"CM052","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256693538947,"sku":"CM055","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256693440643,"sku":"CM053","price":94.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256693407875,"sku":"CM056","price":94.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*100 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256693506179,"sku":"CM054","price":136.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*100 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256693473411,"sku":"CM057","price":136.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Multi-L-MAIN.png?v=1780866744"},{"product_id":"carte-des-vins-de-france-en-bois","title":"Wooden wine map of France","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNo chart, no frame, no panel\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrance cut in wood and mounted straight onto the wall, 60 cm across, with the vineyards raised on it and a separate badge for each wine region placed around it. There is nothing behind the map; the wall is the paper. That is the difference between this and our panels, and it changes how the map reads: a framed chart hangs among other framed things, this is an object on a wall, and it needs the wall to itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThirteen badges, each shaped like something from the trade\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn ice bucket for Champagne, a corkscrew for Lorraine, a glass for Alsace, a barrel for Bourgogne, a vine leaf shared by the Jura and Savoie-Bugey, a jug for Beaujolais, a bottle for the Vallée de la Loire, a basket of grapes for Provence-Corse, a castle for Languedoc-Roussillon, a round barrel end for Bordeaux, leaves for the Sud-Ouest, a badge of its own for the Vallée du Rhône, and Corsica as its own island. Each badge is engraved with the region name and the grape varieties grown there, so the map is a reference as well as a picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is engraved too: the wine villages and vignobles sit on the wood between the départements and the towns – Volnay, Pommard, Meursault and Chablis in Burgundy, the Médoc, Graves, Entre-Deux-Mers and Sauternais around Bordeaux, Bergerac, Cahors and Marmande in the Sud-Ouest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the badges go is your decision. Placed tight against the coastline the map stays compact; spread wider it fills considerably more wall than its 60 cm suggests. Lay the whole arrangement out on the floor before any tape goes on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe relief is yours to build\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map arrives as flat boards. You press the country out, then the vineyard pieces, which come on their own boards already taped: peel the backing and set each one onto the map following the outlines engraved as guides, and Bordeaux, the Loire, Burgundy and the Rhône rise off the base in their own tones. It is a small, satisfying piece of work, and the reason the box says \"à assembler soi-même\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMounting\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen short strips of the double-sided tape go on the back of each piece and it goes up, outer pieces first, badges last. Allow an hour or two. Nothing is drilled and nothing is permanent, though moving it later means fresh tape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWall, board, or frame\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt can be mounted directly on a wall, on a board, or inside a frame of your own, as several of our photos show, which contains the badges and turns the piece into something closer to a panel. If you want that finished look without the work, the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/france-wine-map-on-white-panel\"\u003ewhite\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/france-wine-map-on-beige-panel\"\u003ebeige panels\u003c\/a\u003e are the same map already framed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrance or Italy\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-wine-map-of-italy\"\u003ewooden wine map of Italy\u003c\/a\u003e uses the same system for the other great wine country, with its twenty regions and badges shaped like jugs, glasses and corks.\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 at this scale and the smallest designations are grouped. Someone who knows Burgundy well will find omissions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693604483,"sku":"CM058","price":69.0,"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_98-2.jpg?v=1780866744"},{"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":"carte-des-vins-d-italie-en-bois","title":"Wooden Wine Map of Italy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eItaly, and the tools of the trade\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItaly cut in wood and mounted directly on the wall with no chart behind it, 55 × 60 cm, the wine zones raised on a walnut-stained base, and around it thirteen badges shaped like the trade itself: a laurel wreath for Valle d'Aosta and Lombardia, a cork for Piemonte, a jug for Liguria and Tuscany, a bunch of grapes for Trentino-Alto Adige, a barrel for Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a vine leaf for Veneto, a wedge of cheese for Emilia-Romagna, a goblet for Marche and Abruzzo, a glass for Umbria, a leafy branch for Lazio and Campania, a corkscrew for Molise and Puglia, an amphora for Basilicata and Calabria, and a round badge with a vineyard engraved on it for Sardegna and Sicilia. A wooden title plaque, Carta dei vini d'Italia, comes with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach badge carries one or two region names and their grape varieties, Vermentino and Sangiovese, Sagrantino and Grechetto, Verdicchio and Montepulciano. The France wine map is a map with labels; this one is a map with a still life around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEvery region, which is the whole point\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll twenty Italian regions produce wine, and all twenty are engraved on the base, with the towns between them. It is a fact people know in the abstract and rarely see laid out, and it is the reason an Italian wine map is more interesting than the country's fame alone would suggest. The region names and grape varieties are in Italian; the town names are in English, Rome, Naples, Florence, Turin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe relief is yours to build\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map arrives as flat boards, 84 pieces in all. You press the country out of three numbered boards, then the wine-zone pieces in three tones, which come on their own boards already taped: peel the backing and set each one onto the map following the engraved outlines, and the zones rise off the base in their own tones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eArranging it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe badges go where you put them. Tight to the peninsula and the map stays contained; spread out and it occupies far more wall than the 55 cm of the country itself. Lay everything on the floor first. The arrangement is the design decision, and it is much easier to change before the tape is on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMounting\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShort strips of the double-sided tape on the back of each piece, outer pieces first, badges last. Allow an hour or two. Nothing drilled, nothing permanent, and easier with two people. It can also go on a board or inside a frame of your own; for the framed look without the work, the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/italy-wine-map-on-panel\"\u003eItaly panel\u003c\/a\u003e is the same map already assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eItaly or France\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 system for the other great wine country: thirteen regions, each with a badge shaped like a bottle, a barrel or an ice bucket.\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 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":47256694751363,"sku":"CM062","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/2D_Vini_D_ITALIA_map.png?v=1780866780"},{"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\/3d-dark-fr-11.jpg?v=1789316665","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/collections\/maps-wall-decor.oembed","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}