{"title":"Small Wooden World Maps","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSize S: four loose maps and one framed panel\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 80 × 55 cm size exists on the three 2D world maps – \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-multicolor-wooden-world-map\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e – and on one 3D map, the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor\"\u003e3D Multicolor\u003c\/a\u003e. The fifth product here is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-multicolor-framed\"\u003eframed 3D Multicolor panel\u003c\/a\u003e, a little larger at 90 × 60 cm because the frame is included. The other 3D finishes start at size M.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow big is it on the wall?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e80 cm wide and 55 cm tall, on the wall as separate pieces: the 2D maps weigh about 900 g, the 3D Multicolor about 700 g. Allow around 120 × 95 cm of clear wall. The framed panel is 90 × 60 cm and 4 kg, hung as one piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich room suits it?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA desk wall, a hallway or narrow corridor, a child's room: places where a map should be present without taking over. The same room advice is in our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/size-guide\"\u003esize guide\u003c\/a\u003e, with the wall space needed for every size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow is it mounted?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe loose maps go up piece by piece on the double-sided tape supplied: the 2D maps with two corner stencils to set the position, the 3D Multicolor with a paper positioning template. Lettering on the loose maps is in English or French, chosen at checkout. The framed panel arrives assembled, with its fixing built into the back.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-2d-foncee","title":"2D Wooden World Map Dark","description":"\u003ch3\u003eOne warm brown, and a white wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark is a single tone throughout: the colour of oak, warm rather than black, the same on every piece from Greenland to Antarctica. Cut from one 4 mm sheet, it lies flat against the wall, and against white, cream or pale grey it gives the strongest contrast of our flat maps, reading from the far side of a room without needing light on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a dark wall it does the opposite and disappears. Of the three flat finishes this is the one that most depends on where it goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe only world map that starts at XS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e60 × 40 cm, and no other finish or format offers it. That size fits a hallway, a stairwell, the wall beside a door or the space above a desk, places where a metre of map would take over. From there it runs through S and M to L at 150 × 100 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFlat, and what that means for the room\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 4 mm the map projects almost nothing. In a corridor or beside a doorway, where people pass close and a raised map would eventually be caught by a shoulder or a coat, that matters more than relief would. It is also lighter to handle on the day it goes up than the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003erelief version\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe figures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map comes with a set of small wooden figures to place where you like: the Statue of Liberty on the American coast and Christ the Redeemer on Brazil, the Eiffel Tower on Paris, the pyramids on Egypt, the Taj Mahal on India, a pagoda on China, the Sydney Opera House on Australia, an elephant on Africa, a penguin on Antarctica, and for the oceans a ship, a plane, a whale, an anchor and a compass. On a single-tone map they are what gives the eye somewhere to land, and children find them before they find the countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving on a brown ground\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals and major cities, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved individually. On this finish the lettering is a shade darker than the wood around it: clear when you stand in front of the map, quiet from across the room, which is the trade of a single-tone finish. Add push pins and it becomes a record of where you have been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA uniform stain hides gradual change well, so the map looks the same age throughout as the wood warms over years. Direct sun is the exception: it changes the exposed side and not the shaded one, and on a single tone the line between them shows. Keep it off a wall that takes afternoon sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDark or Multicolor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark is one tone and asks for a pale wall. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-multicolor-wooden-world-map\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e runs four tones from cream to walnut and holds on almost any wall, at the cost of being the busier object. If the wall is white and you want the map to read as one calm shape, this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. Small countries and island groups are simplified or omitted at this scale, and coastlines are smoothed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"XS (60*40 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256690950275,"sku":"CM059","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XS (60*40 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256690983043,"sku":"CM063","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256690917507,"sku":"CM007","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256690819203,"sku":"CM014","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256690884739,"sku":"CM008","price":94.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256690786435,"sku":"CM015","price":94.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*100 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256690851971,"sku":"CM012","price":136.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*100 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256690753667,"sku":"CM018","price":136.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/L-6_f235d92a-7b0e-4de7-a15e-414289007e55.jpg?v=1780866702"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-3d-multicolore","title":"3D Wooden World Map Multicolor","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEvery neighbour a different wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMulticolor is the only finish where the countries differ in hue as well as in depth. Alongside the creams and browns of the other maps there is a warm terracotta, a rust red, a cold slate grey and an olive-tinged brown, distributed so that neighbouring countries almost never share a shade. Mauritania is orange-red beside a pale grey Algeria; Niger sits slate against a walnut Nigeria; Sudan is rust against a cream Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map is not painted. Every one of those shades is stained wood, so the grain runs through each country and the surface stays matt and open rather than glossy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it is the most legible map we make\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause neighbouring countries almost never repeat a colour, nearly every border is unambiguous without needing the engraved line or the physical step to explain it. On the single-tone finishes you sometimes have to look twice to see where one country ends. Here you almost never do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it the finish for anyone who will actually use the map – pointing at countries, tracing routes, explaining where somewhere is. It is also the one children read most easily, which is worth knowing if it is going into a family room rather than an office.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe trade-off, stated plainly\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVariety is the whole design, and it makes this the busiest object in the range. In a room that already has pattern – patterned rugs, gallery walls, wallpaper, open shelving full of colour – it adds to the load rather than resolving it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt works best on a plain wall with a fairly quiet room around it, where it becomes the one complicated thing in the space. That is the opposite of the advice for Light or Amber, which need something else in the room to react against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRelief that has to compete\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach continent is stacked from several plies and stands off the wall. On this finish the shadow is not what separates the countries, since the colour already does that; instead the relief adds a second layer of information on top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe practical consequence is that this map suffers least from bad lighting. Under flat overhead light, where a monochrome map goes visually dead, this one still reads because the colours carry it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving across many grounds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states are engraved individually. Since the backgrounds vary, the lettering does too: crisp and dark on the cream and sand countries, quieter on the terracotta and the slate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the shades alternate constantly across the map, the clearly readable names are spread throughout rather than clustered in one region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical – the same plies, the same borders, the same accessories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink about who will read it rather than where it will hang. If the map is for someone who will stand in front of it and look for places, their own language is the one to choose; if it is chosen for the look, either works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe small one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMulticolor is the only finish offered in a fourth, smaller size alongside the usual three – small enough for a hallway, a child's room or a first flat, and the simplest way into these maps. The same stains, the same layered relief, less wall required.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMultiple stains change at slightly different rates, and over years the palette softens as a whole: the reds warm, the greys lose a little of their coldness, the creams drift toward straw. The relationships between countries hold, so it ages as one object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDirect sunlight remains the risk, and here it is the reds that go first. On a sunlit wall the terracotta countries lose their distinction from the browns, and the map's defining quality – that neighbours almost never repeat – begins to weaken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits in the range\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-chocolate\"\u003eChocolate\u003c\/a\u003e is the most restrained finish we make, this is its opposite. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003eLight\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-amber\"\u003eAmber\u003c\/a\u003e let the wood be the subject; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-graphite\"\u003eGraphite\u003c\/a\u003e set a mood with tone. Multicolor is the only one built around usefulness, where the design exists to make the map easier to read. The map underneath is the same – only the finish changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. Small countries and island groups are simplified or omitted at this scale, and coastlines are smoothed. If you need geographic precision, a printed map serves better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691245187,"sku":"CM060","price":99.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S (80*55 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691212419,"sku":"CM061","price":99.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691114115,"sku":"CM001","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M (100*70 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691081347,"sku":"CM026","price":159.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691048579,"sku":"CM004","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L (150*105 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691015811,"sku":"CM029","price":229.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ French","offer_id":47256691179651,"sku":"CM009","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL (200*140 cm) \/ English","offer_id":47256691146883,"sku":"CM032","price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/XL-2-1_8e391255-1cf8-4a97-bc73-512fe1e68a58.jpg?v=1780866704"},{"product_id":"carte-du-monde-en-bois-2d-claire","title":"2D Wooden World Map Light","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBare birch, and it needs a dark wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLight is the colour of the birch itself, the palest map we make, cut from a single 4 mm sheet. On navy, charcoal, forest green or exposed brick the continents read instantly and the engraving holds from across a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a white wall it will not. There is no shadow on a flat map to separate pale wood from a pale surface, and this is the finish where that matters most. If the wall is white, choose \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-wooden-world-map-dark\"\u003eDark\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/2d-multicolor-wooden-world-map\"\u003eMulticolor\u003c\/a\u003e instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe grain is the only variation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery country is the same tone as its neighbour, so nothing separates them but the engraved border. What varies instead is the birch itself: the grain runs differently through each piece, and on a dark wall that reads as texture across the whole map. It is the most material of our finishes; the map announces what it is made of before what it depicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFlat, and light\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e4 mm and a single layer, so it barely projects from the wall and is the lightest world map in the range to handle. Beside a door or along a corridor it is out of the way of shoulders and coats, which the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-light\"\u003erelief version\u003c\/a\u003e is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe figures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA set of small wooden figures comes with the map, to place where you like: the Statue of Liberty on the American coast and Christ the Redeemer on Brazil, the Eiffel Tower on Paris, the pyramids on Egypt, the Taj Mahal on India, a pagoda on China, the Sydney Opera House on Australia, an elephant on Africa, a penguin on Antarctica, and a ship, a plane, a whale, an anchor and a compass for the oceans. On the pale wood they read as small dark silhouettes, and they are usually the first thing a visitor touches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEngraving on bare wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names, borders, capitals and major cities, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states, engraved individually. The laser burns darker than the surface, so the lettering is brown on cream and as crisp as any map we cut; this is the flat map to choose if someone will stand and read it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish or French\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same map is engraved with all its lettering in either language, chosen above: country names, capitals, ocean names, states and provinces. Everything else is identical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it ages, and the one thing to avoid\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBare birch warms over years, drifting from cream toward straw. That happens evenly across the map and reads as age rather than damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDirect sunlight is different. It changes the wood where the light falls and not where it does not, and on a map that shows as a visible line across the continents. Keep it off a sunlit wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA decorative object rather than a cartographic instrument. 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":"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":"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. 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