Photo from Relish Small Pleasures
I love a huge vintage map divided into sections and reassembled on a wall. So chic!
Of course, the best kind of antique maps are found while digging through European flea markets. But if a shopping trip to the Continent isn't in your immediate future, you can always fake it with an inexpensive reproduction -- which are easy to find on eBay.
This repro circa-1700 Paris map, for instance, measures a generous 41.5 by 35 inches, making it easy to divide into six equal quadrants before framing each of them and hanging them in a grouping.
Buy It Now for $27
2 comments:
This is awesome. If any of y'all are ever in New Orleans, go to Magazine street. It's a long street so I'd hit the section between like Jefferson Ave and Napoleon Ave. or even further down to Lousiana Ave. There are a string of really crappy dirty junk stores that are AMAZING. I bought these lovely sheets of turn of the century newspapers that were still written in french to frame. I gave them to my mom though. They all had just boxes of maps of Louisiana written in french along with the newspapers for 25 cents a page.
Just a random junk shopping tip.
I'm obsessed with vintage maps. My mom lives in France and I have her scouring the villages in Provence for old maps. Thanks for sharing!
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