Millennium's $100,000 Atlas, Earth Platinum
There’s a reason so many fictional books start with a map. Nothing sets the imagination loose like seeing the world displayed on a page. And nowhere has more of the world been displayed on one page than on Millennium House’s giant atlas.
Standing six feet tall, Earth Platinum opens — with the help of two people to turn the pages — to a nine-foot spread, its 128 pages weighing in at 330 pounds. With a production run of just 31 copies — about 15 are still available — and a $100,000 price tag, you’ll have to go to a museum to see it up close.
"The sheer size sets up a relationship between the viewer and the atlas," said Millennium House Managing Director Gordon Cheers. The most eye-popping part of that relationship: when you turn the page and find a stunning panorama stitched together from up to 12,000 individual photos. "You feel you can touch the hills, you want to move in close and explore, then walk back and take in the whole."
The atlas, which started shipping in February, surpassed the (somewhat outdated) Klencke Atlas, produced for England’s King Charles II in 1660, as the largest atlas in the world. Size always matters, but in this case, it's merely an enabler, letting you nose-dive into the terrain, explore it up close, and most importantly, wonder: What’s there?
Photos courtesy of Millennium House
