About World Globes

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is widely considered to be America’s greatest architect.  He amazed the world with his architectural ingenuity and designs.  His vision encompassed the buildings and residences he designed as well as their landscaping, art glass, furniture, lighting and floor covering — to create a unified whole.  An adaption of one of Mr. Wright’s vase designs developed in 1929 for Leerdam Fabrique in Germany.  The Oberlisk world globe floor stand is made of solid maple and cherry hardwood.  Please check out our Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection.

Today, the world globe has become the map of our modern world.  Where else can you see it in its true geograpical relationsip to the rest of the world or, in other words, see those countries which are its neighbors and the true distances and directions between them?  For only on a world globe are distances, directions, sizes and shapes of countries, and their relationship to each other — all correct!  Seeing the true geographical relationships of all nations on this round replica of our world increases our understanding of their economic, social and political status, as well as their interdependence.  People and places, future and past, space and time.  A world globe is a reservoir for all of this.  Probe the mysteries of a world globe.

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Foreign Language Text Globes

Replogles Globes, Inc offers Replogle® brand world globes in English text, with some models available in French, German, Japanese and spanish texts.  The Scanglobe® brand of globes is available in over 20 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish.

Map Types Offered on World Globes

Paper Maps

POLITICAL:  Country and state political boundaries are distinguished by bright, contrasting colors.

ANTIQUE:  Though these maps have an ‘Old World’ or antique appearance, they sport the latest cartography.

PHYSICAL:  The physical features of the Earth are highlighted on this type, also known as the World Ocean map.

STARLIGHT:  Distinguished by black oceans and brightly colored land masses,  this popular edition was marketed in the 1940’s and ’50’s and re-introduced in 1997.

Vinyl Maps

DIAMOND MARQUISE:  Strikingly beautiful and decorative, this uses crystal clear vinyl map printed with lustrous, metallic inks to create a very distinctive and attractive globe with the appearance of glass.

CRYSTAL MARQUISE:  A crystal clear globe with transparent, tinted inks and clear vinyl, this product is as unique and extraordinary as it is stunning.

WRITE-ON/WIPE-OFF:  A clear vinyl world globe that can be written on using dry erase markers then wiped off again and again, this features larger continent and country outlines with very limited place name detail.  This enhances learning in the classroom and home schooling.

This world globe barrel stand is an adaptation of one of the most universally recognized furniture designs found in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives. It is a modified version of the famous “Barrel Chair” originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903 and modified for his personal use at “Taliesin” in Spring Green, Wisconsin and for Herbert F. Johnson for his home “Wingspread” in Racine, Wisconsin in 1937.

Replogle World Globes adopted this design in 2008 for the Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection.

Equator:  Imaginary line running east and west around the exact middle of the earth.

Prime Meridian:  Imaginary line running from pole to pole and passing through
                         Greenwich, England, home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Zero Point:  The equator and the prime meridian intersect at point “0″.  This is
                   where all numbering starts for longitude and latitude lines.

Latitude:  Imaginary lines running around the globe parallel to the equator at 10 or 15-degree increments.

Longitude:  Imaginary lines running from pole to pole numbered in 15-degree increments
                 from the Prime Meridian.

23.5 Degrees:  The angle of the Earth’s tilt as it flies through space.  Most 
                      world globes are made to reflect this angle.

Meridian:  A full- or semi-circle metal arc used to hold the world globe in place.  Meridians
                are generally numbered in degrees from 0 degree at the equator to 90 degrees
                at either pole.

Time Dial:  If it is noon where you are, turn the time dial so that noon faces your 
                 global location.  The other numbers on the dial now show the time in the
                 rest of the world.

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Frank Lloyd Wright® World Globes 

Frank Lloyd Wright’s overall concept for his buildings included the integration of the interior furnishings. In 1952, he developed a series of hexagonal metal chairs, tables and other furniture for the H.C. Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that coordinated with the geometric shape of the building. Adapted from the hexagonal hassock design, the 12″ Frank Lloyd Wright® Hexagon Globe as part of the  Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection exemplifies the three Organic Elements used by Wright throughout his lifetime.  The metal base is triangular, the heagonal globe support is wood, and the globe is circular.

Frank Lloyd Wright® World Globes

Frank Lloyd Wright’s overall concept for his buildings included the integration of the furniture and decorative objects.  Replogle Globes is honored to produce a new line of globes adaped from select Wright drawings and concepts, chosen by Replogle and authorized by the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation

The Tabouret 9″ antique world globe is part of the  Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection.  The stand is an adaptation of one of the more than 22,000 drawings in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives. The design is closely based on the tabouret table from a composite drawing showing the coordinating grandfather clock, chair, vase and tabouret table that Mr. Wright created for the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York in 1903.