Darien, Connecticut 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Darien, Connecticut 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Darien, Connecticut 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
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Darien, Connecticut 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 222.00 $ 298.00
24.5 x 31 in
Baltic birch, hand-stained water
Up to nine laser-cut birch layers
Carved bathymetric relief, laser-etched labels
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

A chart is a stack of flat sheets until the water's real soundings tell it what shape to take.

  1. SurveyReal bathymetric sounding data sets every contour line before a single cut is made.
  2. CutEach depth band is laser-cut from its own sheet of Baltic birch, up to nine layers deep.
  3. StainWater layers are stained by hand, reading darker the deeper the water runs.
  4. StackThe sheets are registered and stacked in sequence, and the bed's true shape rises out of the wood.
  5. EtchDepths and place names are burned into the grain itself, never printed on it.
  6. FrameA solid Baltic birch frame and acrylic glass finish the piece, ready to hang.

Darien and its shoreline in stacked Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the coves, harbors, and offshore islands of one of Long Island Sound's most tucked-away coastal towns, every depth contour a laser-cut layer.

Darien keeps its water quietly. The Five Mile River forms the western edge, its narrow channel lined with boatyards and launches shared with Rowayton, while Scott's Cove and Ziegler's Cove notch the Tokeneke shore in a chain of private, ledgy anchorages. Off Pear Tree and Long Neck points, a scatter of small islands breaks the Sound, the low-tide picnic spots every local kid learns by name. On the chart, those coves and ledges hold their true shapes in the top layers of birch, with the Sound's deeper water stepping away to the south.

Each contour is laser-cut from its own sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and finished behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.

Towns like this navigate by memory: which rock, which mooring, which cove at which tide. The memory is now wall-mounted.

The engraving spans the Five Mile River, Noroton Bay and Pear Tree Point, the Tokeneke coves, and the islands offshore. The wider water is on the Long Island Sound chart.

  • 24.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame
  • Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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  • 14-day returns
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