{"title":"Wooden World Maps 2D","description":"\u003ch3\u003eOne layer, and the wall does the rest\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are cut from a single 4 mm sheet rather than stacked from several, so the continents lie almost flat against the wall. There is no relief and almost no shadow, which changes what the map needs from the surface behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a relief map, shadow separates the land from the wall. Here the wall colour does that job, and it is the one decision that determines whether the map works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy does the wall matter more here than on a relief map?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause nothing else separates the wood from the surface behind it. Light is bare birch, and on white it is barely there until you are close enough to read it; on navy, charcoal or deep green it reads from across the room. Dark is one warm brown throughout and does the opposite: strong on white, cream or pale grey, lost on a dark wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMulticolor sits between the two. Its four tones run from cream to dark walnut, so some part of the map contrasts with any wall, which makes it the safe choice if the wall might change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does a flat map do that a relief map cannot?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt goes where a raised map would be knocked. At 4 mm it projects almost nothing, so it suits a hallway, a stairwell or the wall beside a door, where people pass close. It is lighter to handle on the day you put it up, and it costs less than the relief map of the same size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat you give up is the depth: the shadow lines, and the way a relief map changes as the light moves through the day. The engraving and the accessories are the same; the figures are a bonus of the flat map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is engraved, and in which language?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCountry names and borders, capitals and major cities, US states, Canadian provinces and Australian states, cut individually into each piece. The world maps come with English or French lettering, chosen on the product page; the maps of France are engraved in French only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach world map also brings a set of small figures to place where you like: the Statue of Liberty and Christ the Redeemer on the Americas, 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, with a ship, two planes, a whale, an anchor and a compass for the oceans. The maps of France carry their own landmarks, one on nearly every region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat sizes are there?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe world maps run from 60 cm across to 150 cm. The smallest, the XS, exists only on the Dark finish and only in this range; it is the most compact world map we make and suits a hallway, a home office or the space above a desk. The maps of France are 50 cm wide, roughly a large framed photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA rectangle grows in both directions at once, so the step from S to M adds far more wall than the numbers suggest. Measure before choosing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDo you need to drill?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo. The pieces go up on double-sided tape, positioned with the two corner stencils in the box, so nothing is drilled and nothing is permanent. Allow a couple of hours for a world map, less for a map of France; taking a map down again needs a hairdryer to loosen the tape, and fresh tape to put it back up elsewhere. The full routine, stencils included, is on our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/installation\"\u003einstallation page\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIs it a decorative object or an accurate map?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA decorative object. 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","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-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-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. 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