{"id":3483,"date":"2014-11-03T16:11:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2014-11-03T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T15:16:13","slug":"a-map-of-duke-of-york-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2014\/a-map-of-duke-of-york-square\/","title":{"rendered":"A Map of Duke of York Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a beautiful hand-drawn map by Camilla Charnock<\/a>, who was commissioned to draw it for a new retail development at Sloane Square in west London. <\/p>\n

I am very enthusiastic about developers commissioning attractive and original maps to promote their developments, it’s so much nicer to see something unique as opposed to a simple online map or an edited Google Map – nothing wrong with these per se, but a bespoke map suggests a genuine passion in setting a new development in its place. This particular graphic appears on the construction hoarding for the project (Duke of York Square, by Cadogan Estates).<\/p>\n

We’ve previously featured a Camilla Charnock work before – Carte Blanc<\/a>, a map of restaurants in an up-market chain. Like that piece, this map includes lots of attractive adornments – a dinosaur skeleton for the Natural History Museum, a Chelsea Pensioner and a dalmatian dog (below). The main streets are shown, along with tube stations. Trees and flowers further soften the map. The development itself, shown in a blown-up section, includes the various retail units in pastel colours with symbols for the shopping types, and a few further adornments. Note that, rather unusually, the map is orientated so that upwards is eastwards.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Camilla for carefully photographing her artwork, joining the pieces together and sending them in.<\/i><\/p>\n

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