Mapkin

The Atlas Obscured Collection Mapkin is a stainless steel napkin holder that consists of four layers of laser-cut maps precisely layered to showcase the evolution of a city over time.

In Latin, mappa simply meant cloth. Over time, mappa mundi came to mean “map of the world,” since maps were drawn on cloth. As the word spread into French, it became mappe (map of land) and nappe (tablecloth). English kept both ideas: map for the world, and napkin for the small cloth at our side, "-kin" meaning “little.” The name Mapkin brings these ideas together: “little cloth of the world,” blending history, language, and design.