A funny thing just happened. After writing about botanical prints yesterday, I couldn't seem to get my mind off of them. Then while I was in Newburyport today, I stumbled upon an amazing chart by Jung-Koch-Quentell at a home design store there. Immediately when my husband saw them, he explained that they're from Germany, used since the 1960's as a teaching aid in school. The one I fell in love with was $179- USD so I walked away because he convinced me that we could find these online in Germany for much less. Love that man.

I came home and googled them (in English) and found these at Ballard Designs for $199- USD each. I know, they're pricey. But they're made extremely well, printed on canvas, and the top and bottom comes with black wooden dowels to keep it from rolling up, and a ribbon for hanging. They're large, full-color, gorgeous. Much prettier than online in fact.

But get this. While I was off googling in English, my husband googled in German and found the same ones at Hagemann for under $50,- Euro with free shipping within Germany. If you live elsewhere, contact Hagemann directly. Here's an online catalog showing their charts. For those of you that cannot read German, they come with the same black wooden dowels, printed on canvas, just as what you see above from the Ballard Designs catalog. What a deal! What a husband!

I'm ordering the one below, top left, showing a metamorphosis. I love the colors, it would be perfect in my living room, so I think that's where it will go. I also love the one showing the human body. That's a fun conversation starter, agree?

To get an idea of how these look installed, I pulled these two images eons ago from an AT tour I found, but unfortunately I cannot recall who lives in this great space or where the tour was located on the site. Do you know? Anyway, it helps you visualize how fabulous these charts look in the home.

[update: reader Courtney pointed me to this post, she's been on the prowl for the print shown over the sofa (below) from the March 2006 Martha Stewart Living magazine. That's over a year of looking! Anyway, she clicked on the above link to Hagemann and struck gold! Yeah!]

(images from ballard designs, hagemann, at:ny, and martha stewart living)