PLATE Iedition of 40
The Zwin, 51.36° N · surveyed at every spring tide
The Wandering Coast
A salt marsh that redraws its own shoreline twice a day. We print the argument, not the verdict.
A cartographic press · est. MMXXVI
Maps of places that refuse to sit still.
Coastlines, rivers, dunes and ice, drawn by hand, printed in small editions, and corrected for as long as the landscape keeps arguing.
A map is a portrait of a place in motion. We draw the motion.
The atlas · five living plates
Each plate is drawn by seeded noise. No two copies of this page are the same edition.
PLATE IIedition of 55
The Semois meanders · surveyed each spring
A River That Forgets
It has redrawn its own bed three times since we began. Our engraver has stopped complaining.
PLATE IIIedition of 40
De Panne, westward drift · surveyed by moonlight
Dune Sea, Advancing
Eleven metres a year, patiently, in one direction. The most punctual landscape we know.
PLATE IVedition of 24
Aletsch, the tongue · surveyed each August
The Retreating Ice
We map what it leaves behind. Every year the plate needs fewer lines; nobody celebrates.
PLATE Vedition of 12
A hill near Nazareth · surveyed nightly, out of habit
One Hill, Surveyed Nightly
The only place we map that holds still. We check anyway. A press needs one certainty.
Method
Slow by design.
01
Field
We walk the place until it stops posing. Notes in pencil, distances in paces, weather in the margin.
02
Survey
The lines are taken twice, a season apart. Where the two surveys disagree, the map keeps both.
03
Engrave
One plate, one place, one edition. When the landscape moves on, the plate is retired, never reprinted.
Orders and correspondence
The next survey leaves at first light.
Editions are small and, like their subjects, do not wait. Write to the press to reserve a plate.
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