A Small London Company That Makes Beautiful Globes
Thanks for posting this. Quote from OA...<p><i>"Bellerby says it takes around six months to complete just one of the globes, which range from £999 ($1440) for the smallest to £59,000 ($85,000) for the Churchill."</i><p>William Morris[1] was a socialist and paid decent wages and provided good jobs. He did it by making furniture and wallpapers that only the seriously rich could afford. I suspect we will see more of this craft production of nice things at costs a large multiple of the cheapest mass-produced items.<p>(OA lead me to a teaching idea...[2], and it turns out that gore projection is full of compromises and trade-offs [3])<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.gma.org/surfing/imaging/globe.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gma.org/surfing/imaging/globe.html</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.mapthematics.com/Downloads/Gores.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.mapthematics.com/Downloads/Gores.pdf</a>