Shops & cafés / Ambergris
Hoegbotton & Sons
An imagined merchant’s plaque for Hoegbotton & Sons, Distributors, from Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris. A blue-and-gold whale, shipping crates and creeping fungi bring the strange trading city into an ornate sign illustration.
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Behind the sign.
Every place has a story.
- WHERE TO FIND IT
- Ambergris
- ON THE BOOKSHELF
- Jeff VanderMeer — Ambergris
The local knowledge
Hoegbotton & Sons, Distributors, belongs to the commercial life of Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris. Trade and business exist alongside the city’s strange history and fungal mysteries. The company offers a wonderfully ordinary point of entry into an extraordinary fictional city.
Our interpretation
An imagined merchant’s plaque for Hoegbotton & Sons, Distributors, from Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris. A blue-and-gold whale, shipping crates and creeping fungi bring the strange trading city into an ornate sign illustration.