Founded in 2008 by Peter Bellerby, Bellerby & Co Globemakers creates handcrafted terrestrial and celestial globes in a vast open studio that resembles a journey around the world. Globes in various stages of making are scattered all over the workshop, together with freshly painted maps hanging up to dry, handled by a team of craftspeople from every corner of the world. “I was looking for a globe to give to my father for his 80th birthday, but I could only find either antique globes that were too expensive, or industrial ones used by students. So I decided to make my own,” Peter explains.

Inside Bellerby & Co Globemakers' London studio, the dynamic team of globe makers masters different steps of the creation process: from wood and metalworkers who craft the bases, to cartographers who design the maps and specialists who apply the paper gores onto the spheres. Today, the studio undertakes complex bespoke commissions, including heavily researched thematic maps, one-off bases designed for life at sea, and monumental, large-scale globes.