{"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","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/3d-wooden-world-map-dark","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}