Custom terrain model of Vail Mountain Ski Area to be used as a living room center piece. The wooden table was built by local shop Beyond the Tree Woodworks. http://www.beyondthetreewoodworks.com/

TOPOGRAPHY – Machined from a polyurethane foam block using data from the United States Geological Survey 10 Meter DEM

GRAPHICS – Image taken in the early morning of January 15, 2014 by the Airbus Pleiades 1 satellite from an altitude of 694km after a week of storms dropped 39” of snow on Vail Mountain

TABLE – Wood sourced from the logs of an abandoned cabin located south of Minturn, CO

ASSEMBLY – Image digitally applied using a flying-head inkjet printer that tracks the terrain block; parts assembled by a craftsman in Minturn, CO.

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