To celebrate the Warburg Institute’s Night Maps exhibition, The World of Interiors invited a selection of artists and academics to reflect on a map that spoke to them personally.
Johannes Stabius’s 1515 Map of the World as a Sphere, drawn by Albrecht Dürer, was the obvious choice for me. As an extraordinary early depiction of the Earth rendered with perspective, it is widely recognised as the first printed map to present our world as a true sphere. It captures a pivotal shift in human awareness, that very moment we began to visualise our planet suspended within the vastness of the cosmos.
Read the article in full in the December issue of The World of Interiors.
Night Maps is on at the Warburg Institute, London, from 21 October 2026 to 17 April 2027.
