A housewarming gift that stays on the wall
People arrive with a bottle, a plant, a scented candle. It is kind, and by spring there is nothing left of it.
The map of their new home takes minutes to compose, goes up on the first evening, and still says something ten years later.
A place, not one more object
A housewarming celebrates an address. That address is what everyone has come to see, and it is the one thing nobody else will think of giving.
The map of their street, their neighbourhood, the shoreline outside their window: the drawing comes from real geography. This is not an illustration inspired by a place, it is that place.
And it ages well. A bottle gets drunk, a plant gets passed on. A map follows them to the next move, and becomes the memory of the flat before.
Depending on who receives it
The same collection, framed four different ways.
A first flat
The neighbourhood rather than the city. At that scale you recognise the street, the square, the way to the station. This is the map people look at closely, and for a long time.
A couple moving in
Two addresses are sometimes better than one: where each of them came from, or where they met, hung beside the new one.
A family house
The whole parish, with the water and the roads that tie it to everywhere else. A large size, for a hallway you walk through every day.
A move back home
The city they are returning to, not the one they are leaving. The gift then says you understood what the move was about.
What goes beneath the map
A title, a line below it, the coordinates. That is what turns a drawing into a date.
- 01
The address, plainly
The number and the street. Nothing more, and it is often what lands hardest: nobody else is going to write that particular line.
- 02
The day they moved in
The day of the keys. The map becomes the birth certificate of the home, and the gift dates itself.
- 03
A line of your own
Words only you can write. It is the line they will reread most often, and the reason the piece gets kept.
Which size for which wall
Too small and a print disappears, too large and it flattens the room. Three rules that almost always hold.
A4 and A3
Above a desk, along a hallway, or in a run of two or three. The size you look at from a metre away.
A2
The size that sits right above a sofa or a bed. It is the one most people choose, and rarely the wrong one.
A1 and A0
A hallway, a stairwell, a room with distance in it. With less than three metres to stand back, choose the A2.
Arriving in time
Allow 1 to 4 working days for making, up to 7 for hand-assembled frames and canvases, then 1 to 6 working days in transit. For a fixed date, order around ten days ahead.
And if you have left it late: the file of the piece is emailed to you as soon as you order. Enough to show the gift that evening, and let the frame arrive afterwards.
You can also have it delivered straight to them. No price appears in the parcel, and the receipt goes to you alone.
Delivery and timing
Will it arrive in time?
Allow 1 to 4 working days for making, up to 7 for frames and canvases, then 1 to 6 working days in transit: for a fixed date, order around ten days ahead.
And if the parcel keeps you waiting, the file of the piece is emailed to you as soon as you order: enough to announce the gift on the day, without revealing anything before.
Can you deliver straight to the person I am giving it to?
Yes: simply enter their address at checkout. No price appears in the parcel, and your receipt is emailed to you alone.
How long does it take?
Allow 1 to 4 working days for making, up to 7 for hand-assembled frames and canvases, then 1 to 6 working days in transit with standard delivery.
Digital editions are available immediately: the file of your piece is emailed to you as soon as you order.
Is delivery really free?
Yes, on every printed edition, in every country we deliver to.
A piece to mark a new home.
A one-of-a-kind piece, and it will belong to you alone.