{"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","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/2d-multicolor-wooden-world-map","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}