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The owners of my beach rental last year had these up in the bedrooms and I loved them!

They had them backed on (what looked like) wood and then had a clear finish over them.

It was nice - beach style without being tacky or too much.

I once used nautical maps to wallpaper my entryway. It made for a nice one-of-a-kind look, for about $50.

The grouping in the photo seems a bit forced "eclectic" to me, i.e., the design screams see how cool and "eclectic" I can be by adding an iconic midcentury piece with some ordinary cafe wicker/rattan chairs. I like each of the individual pieces, including the artwork, but I don't really like them together.

The saarinen is just not doing it for me here.

We did a chart in our bathroom - I love the colors...
http://tinyurl.com/5ypu4b

i just love the map

david, I've been thinking about and posting about "eclectic" a lot this week. I think it's either truly a reflection of the owner's taste, or just bought via decorator. Sometimes there's a mix, where the decorator really understands the client's likes and comes up with the right eclectic mix that represents him/her.

Becky

It's a chart, not a map!

Sailors are fussy.

This looks great.

lol
thanks minouette for the clarification
didn't know sailors were fussy. don't know any sailors! hehe
:-)

P.S. this struck me as a European home (I need to double check) where they were as likely to have an old tulip table they'd had for years as they were likely to have those battered wicker chairs. It looks effortless to me; not intentional. I think maybe design press, esp. blogs have brought the Saarinen tulip table/chairs to the radar of so many people as "a Mid-century Design Must Have!" that we assume they lucked out and just got one on eBay after a tedious search or something. It's funny; I wonder how many of those tulip-seekers can actually name 5 other things designed by Eero. Or even Eero and Eliel put together.

Oops, update, the picture is from Tom Scheerer's work in the Bahamas. The point of it is a bunch of textures in an all-white palette. So it is likely carefully composed and not as effortless as it would appear to me if it were a random kitchen in Finland.

things migrate into cottages. 80 year old chairs, 45 year old tables. these don't seemed forced to me at all...except for the apples. if this is the bahamas, it should be tropical fruit. and i guess the chart should be island related.

i guess it is a little forced. at least geographically.

i still like the table with the wicker.