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Today, vintage trunks and luggage have reappeared as furniture or decorative home accents in a bedroom or foyer. Recent globe designs offer modern variations in style and features, such as interior lighting, automatic rotation and more. They’ve been given as gifts for hundreds of years, as globes have always been beautiful objects whether they’re in your home office or your living room, lining your mantel alongside other globes of different sizes. Perhaps even more surprising is that the decorative function of globes has not changed much since the 16th century. Lastly, the globe is covered with plaster, ready for the design to be pasted on top. The hemispheres are joined with glue or sewn with string and are subsequently topped with more paper or even thin fabric. The base starts as two papier-mâché hemispheres, which have a wooden support pillar attached via the north and south poles. Quite surprisingly, the construction of globes remains relatively unchanged from the 16th century. The models that do are known as terrestrial globes, while globes that detail the position of the stars and other heavenly bodies are called celestial globes. Not all globes depict the Earth and its countries, landmasses and bodies of water. As information about a place became available to geographers over time, globes became more accurate. These were tools that identified a region’s borders, the names of countries, territories and more as the Earth’s geography was once known or imagined. Antique globes offer a glimpse into specific time periods and how peoples of the past navigated the world around them. Globes didn’t just detail continental formations, they might also show astronomical positions - adventurous seafarers of the day would rely on stars’ positions in traveling the great waters ahead of them. During the Age of Exploration, they were vital for navigation, bringing sailors home after perilous journeys on different trade routes. Globes are among the most ancient of scientific instruments. Antique and vintage globes can prove unique and interesting accents to your living space, whether on their own as provocative conversation pieces or part of a small collection dotting the shelves where your sculptures and other decorative objects live.