Luxury Globes from London | Euromaxx

Peter Bellerby produces exquisite handmade globes in his workshop in the north of London. They range in price from 1,200 all the way to 64,000 Euros. He started making them 6 years ago, and in the meantime has customers worldwide, from Japan to Brazil. For more go to www.dw.de/progr...

[@GonzoJamie]

I'm very pleased with my Globe. Have had it for a while now and it never ceases to bring me great joy

[@sazure2]

The craftsmanship is superb. Stunningly beautiful! Always loved maps (museums that house old maps and globes) and the changing viewpoint of the then known world. Glad to see the art of this is being kept alive by you and your team! (I came to various sites which show your work due to my having done sculpture and trying to create a sphere without paper mache build up - lumpy. Plaster clothe inside a mold to start helps a lot.)

[@charlessmyth]

Nice job. I'll stick with Google Earth, all the same :-)

[@Globemakers]

Thanks! It's not quiiite a replacement for google earth, we prefer to have the best of both worlds ;)

[@charlessmyth]

Bellerby Globemakers It is a lovely product, I agree :-)

[@Globemakers]

Thank you so much Leon!

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Why can’t they do the coloring in the map design stage?

[@melvinjohnson7033]

Does anyone have one of these globes. Do the longitude lines match up all the way around the equator? Probably not.

[@HeeBeeGeeBee392]

There is an implicit degree of tolerance to imperfection - perhaps between 10 μm and 100 μm - depending on how closely one examines the result. The resolution of human eyesight is typically 140 μm (0.14 mm) at a distance of 50 cm. I tried - and failed - to create globes from gores when I was a lot younger and it's far from easy to obtain a pleasing result. If I matched up the longitudes of half gores at the equator, the poles were a mess. Poles were also tricky if I used full gores. Gores that stretched almost from pole to pole helped when used together with pole cap pieces, but matching and fitting these was problematic. Working to scored-on guide lines definitely helped. The choice of paper being used seems crucial - it must have some inherent elasticity or plasticity to be capable of being warped from a Gaussian curvature of 0 to one of 1/r², where r is the radius. My dream solution would be to design an ink-jet printer than can print onto a general blank 3D surface - oddities like Klein bottles excluded. It would also likely be a compromise if stepper motors were used as in conventional 3D printers.

[@lawrenceshuda]

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