How about a giant, obscure and wonderfully bizare map filling your wall with all of its intricate wonder. A-“mazing”!Love it! Bedrock Images is selling these long-forgotten cartographic gems to those who can afford the tidy sum. Nothing like a massive map to get a sense of the mass of humanity that is unseen. The following is taken from Dwell Magazine on-line. Read on…
Bedrock Images’s Forgotten Maps
For the architecturally inclined—especially those with a mess of wall space—little enlivens the living room like a gigantic map. Though hip apartments the nation over are festooned with graphic prints of Brooklyn neighborhoods, diagrams of the London Underground, and the like, to get a real dose of architectural bravado in your residence, consider one of the massive archival maps from Bedrock Images. Printed on cloth, fine paper, or glossy photographic paper, these images from Rome, New York, Paris, Washington D.C., or Beijing range in size from merely impressive to room-transformingly massive. Read more: http://www.dwell.com/articles/Bedrock-Imagess-Forgotten-Maps.html#ixzz1qXk9LgCN
To get a sense of just how massive these maps can be, Bedrock staged this photo (below) outdoors in Paris. You’ll clearly need a capacious living room for this map of New York City from 1879 to make sense. The map comes with mounting hardware and a $3,000 pricetag.
Read more: http://www.dwell.com/slideshows/bedrock-imagess-forgotten-maps.html?slide=4&c=y&paused=true#ixzz1qXnAzo8F
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