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i framed a $2.50 piece of wrapping/craft paper from PaperSource and it's one of my favorite decorations in my house. i also like having art art, but i have to do some things on the cheap!

I've been looking for maps like that for ages! Where did these come from?

I think the maps/wrapping paper are a store on vermont just above hollywood on the east side of the street. Obviously, I cannot recall the store's name.

I was going to do this for my office (use the wrapping paper, they didn't have the maps back then) and my wife said, it would just look like a put wrapping paper on the walls. Damn her!

I have the Paris map from the top photo framed and hanging on my wall. It looks uber-expensive, but sure wasn't! All of the papers in the top photo are by Cavallini and Co. (www.cavallini.com), and are readily available in lots of stationery stores. Some of their bigger products (calendars, file folders, etc.) are carried at Anthropologie.

In toronto you can get cavallini paper at write expression at bayview and davisville - i acutally already have a couple of their designs as art.

in SF, flax on market/valencia has map papers like that.

Just last night I bought an $ 8 piece from Paper Source and chopped it up to fit about 8 black frames.
It's in my guest room. Thinking about doing it on a grander scale in the living room, too!

I do the grown-up version of the college dorm: I display movie posters, concert posters, etc. But instead of buying cheap reproductions, I buy the originals which cost a bit more money (but not that much). Framed, they look pretty damn neat.

I'm trying to collect those old maps of cities that i've travelled to so that I can do a whole wall collage of maps.

i love the maps! anywhere that has them available online?

Kate's Paperie has locations all over Manhattan and an online store with Cavallini maps:

http://www.katespaperie.com/store/productView450_pc-1.php

So much fun to browse the store though; the papers are displayed on walls like in the photo above and they have tons of other art and stationary items too. One of my favorite shops in NYC.

I know this comes off sounding stinky but.... don't you mean decoration and not art. Found objects, papers put on a wall are just that, found, gorgeous as they may be, but not sure that makes it art.

Hi all - a few answers to the questions.

1) Yes, these are Cavallini prints.

2) The magazine rack that the maps are on was handmade by the store owner. It looks to be a fairly easy DIY by measuring the pieces of wood and screwing them in.

While I love all of these papers, they're not exactly green decorating, are they? For a site that agonizes over using tape to pick up cat hair, gushing over more useless paper products seems rather silly.

i have the paris map in my bedroom. they have a great selection of wrapping paper art at papyrus. yes, art.