NORDIC EDITION

When warm woodwork goes wrong

Most wooden world maps are brown. It's beautiful – until you hang it in a living room with a grey sofa, white walls, and black steel. The Nordic Edition is the map for exactly those rooms.

Nordic Edition in charcoal grey, slate and sand – without a single brown tone.

The problem with brown woodwork

Natural wood is warm. It leans towards yellow and red, and in a room that already features oak, linen, and wool, it enhances the atmosphere. That is precisely why a brown wooden map works so well in the classic Norwegian living room.


But many homes are no longer furnished this way. Microcement in the bathroom, grey textiles in the living room, black fixtures, large window surfaces with cold daylight. In those rooms, a warm brown map becomes a foreign spot on the wall—it clashes instead of complementing.


Nordic Edition solves this by changing the entire palette. The continents are in charcoal grey, slate, dove blue, and a light sand tone, with white contours between the countries and thin blue river lines as the only splashes of color. The map is read as graphics, not as a piece of furniture. It allows the room to remain calm while still claiming the entire wall.

See the map in motion

Grayscale tones are difficult to judge in a still image. The light shifts throughout the day, and the shadows between the layers determine how dark the map appears from where you are sitting. Here you can see how it actually behaves on the wall.

Four rooms where Nordic Edition dresses the wall

1. The living room with the grey sofa. The most common Norwegian living room right now: light walls, grey or beige textiles, a touch of oak. Here, a brown map would clash with the furniture. Nordic Edition rests above the sofa like a graphic panel, leaving the textiles to speak for themselves.


2. The home office. Screen, black desk lamp, light-colored desk. The room is already monochrome, and the map follows that logic rather than breaking it. It is also the room you spend the most time in – and grey tones are easier on the eyes than bold colors.


3. Concrete and microcement. Cool, raw surfaces need something with the same temperature. Slate and charcoal grey meet concrete on its own terms, whereas warm wood would look like a conciliatory addition.


4. The bedroom. A large motif above the bed can easily become too much. Nordic Edition has low internal contrast in its palette, so it fills the wall without shouting – more texture than eye-catcher when the lights are dimmed.

Sizes: M 100 × 60 cm – NOK 2,438 · L 150 × 90 cm – NOK 3,162 · XL 200 × 120 cm – NOK 4,224. Rule of thumb: the map should cover approximately two-thirds of the width of the piece of furniture it hangs over.

The map for the cold room

Layered 3D relief, laser-cut land contours, and engraved place names – in a palette that stays within grey, slate, and sand. Three sizes, from NOK 2,438.

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