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