Vintage Globes

The economic crisis has this power: it make us to postpone a trip long planned and scheduled, detail by detail, through a careful reading of guides and stories of those who, lucky, the country of our dreams has already visited.
In the age of the internet just type in any search engine Tierra del Fuego, Rapa Nui, Yemen, Mongolia to come immediately and virtually catapulted into the desired location, with lots of videos and photographs in support of detailed descriptions and instructions for undertaking adventure .

Nothing comparable, however, the satisfaction that can arise giving a nice shot to the globe.
Browse at your fingertips an ideal route by leaps and bounds, we can go around the world in a few but intense moments and to reduce the gap between imagination and reality.

The fascination with world map, however, is not just the stuff of dreamers on Sunday.
It is something that gets to the heart of even the most experienced designers and pulls him into a whirlwind made of light and memories, prompting him to gather fifteen vintage globes of different sizes and to hide the dense geographical imprinted on the surface with as many 25 watt bulbs inserted inside.

The result is a bunch asymmetric but ordered as a representation of a galaxy in a planetarium. The author instead it's him, Benoit Vieubled, artist / artisan French is defined Createur de luminaire and works with humble materials recovery tying wire.
Her creations are available in a handful of stores in Europe and in Italy in Rome and Milan.

Recovery (and recovery!) Also globes exposure of young Californian Wendy Gold.
Maps are not updated to the most current geopolitical situation live a new life thanks to intrepid heroes that plow the oceans, animals, flowers and butterflies that tickle plains and mountains, sea monsters emerging from the depths, a vintage plates and written report this or that resort.

The technique is decoupage and is to coat the surface a bit 'cracked and marked by time of an old world map found among the junk in a junk shop, with a selection of magazine clippings, posters and anything that might be of inspiration.
A little 'coats of glue to adhere everything well to the substrate, polished finish and here is our ImagineNation ready to be exhibited with pride on the table of the living room.

Its task will be not only decorative, evocative of many journeys already undertaken and stimulus to compierne of others, regardless of the unexpected and always willing to accept new knowledge.

For more information, please visit the following websites:

www.benoit-vieubled.com

www.artonglobes.com