Painting the largest handcrafted globe in the world - the 127cm diameter Churchill. In the London studio of Bellerby & Co Globemakers.
Map gazing, the promise of travel, adventure, experience – I have nostalgic notions towards historic expeditions, of giant oceans devouring ships and whole new worlds to be discovered. There is something in the tangible that […]
We invited Berlin photographer Ana Santl into our private London art studio for the day, to see what daily life is like for a traditional globemaker. We do not usually allow visitors as the smallest mistake can set an artist or maker back weeks in work. To make globes requires concentration, patience and a steady hand.
Peter Bellerby wanted a globe for his father’s 80th birthday. Unfortunately, he had to choose between flimsy cheap globes and fragile antiques. Bellerby chose the door number three, and decided to make one himself. This was much harder than he realized, starting with the search for accurate maps, and ending up with globe rotation issues. Along […]
We invited Berlin photographer Ana Santl into our private London art studio for the day, to see what daily life is like for a traditional globemaker. We do not usually allow visitors as the smallest mistake can set an artist or maker back weeks in work. To make globes requires concentration, patience and a steady hand.
Map gazing, the promise of travel, adventure, experience – I have nostalgic notions towards historic expeditions, of giant oceans devouring ships and whole new worlds to be discovered. There is something in the tangible that […]
The wood-working workshop at Bellerby & Co Globemakers in London - where a bespoke base is being handcrafted for a large Churchill globe.
Long gone are the days when our first instinct is to migrate to a spinning globe to track the destinations around us or find a specific country. Now we have the power to digitally zoom in and out of the entire earth, utilizing mapping tools like Google Earth. The romanticism tied to these newer forms however, does not match the art of the ancient globe, the earliest dating back to the mid-2nd century B.C. More
Around 300 bespoke globes are made every year at the studio of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers in Stoke Newington, North London - with each one selling at up to £39,000 a time.
Our friends over at The Big Egg Hunt really are doing themselves proud. There are the most fantastic eggs on display around London. Ours is tucked into the most apt location and being lovingly ca…
Peek inside the workshop of Peter Bellerby, with one of the world’s most leading fabricators.
Around 300 bespoke globes are made every year at the studio of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers in Stoke Newington, North London - with each one selling at up to £39,000 a time.
There are only a few dedicated artisanal globemakers left in the world—and there’s good reason for that.
