{"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. 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