I have a globe on the desk in front of me as I write and my eyes occasionally take a journey across it to faraway cities and across unexplored seas. It's a cheap plastic globe; but what of those beautiful creations made many years ago recording a world that was largely unvisited by western man? Globes were then objects of art and craftsmanship. And one man still makes them to such standards.
In a collaboration between Shinola, Detroit-based quality manufacturers and Jocks&Nerds, the eclectic magazine covering style, history and culture, craftsmen such as Peter Bellerby, globemaker, are showing their skills at series of a pop-ups in Shinola's London shop (details below).
In an interview with Jocks&Nerds, Bellerby describes how his company, Bellerby & Co, design and craft each globe by hand, working with local craftsmen on each step of the process to revive a largely forgotten art. You can now watch them at work and learn some of the skills involved as they will be handcrafting and painting globes and taking bespoke orders at the Shinola store from 12-6pm on Friday 19 June and Saturday 20 June and from 12-4pm on Sunday 21 June 2015 at 13 Newburgh Street, London W1.
Keep an eye on the Jocks&Nerds website for details of this and other past and future craft pop-ups at Shinola. This post is a collaboration with Jocks&Nerds. Photography by Kevin Davies.