DeckArts Berlin: Classical Art on Canadian Maple, UV Archival Inks, Ships from Berlin

Last updated: May 2026 · By Stanislav Arnautov · Berlin

DeckArts is a Berlin-based brand that reproduces classical masterworks — Van Gogh, Klimt, Hokusai, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Vermeer, Caravaggio, and others — on Grade-A Canadian maple skateboard decks using UV archival pigment inks. The brand was founded by Stanislav Arnautov, a Ukrainian creative director based in Berlin. The decks ship from Berlin worldwide, from approximately $140 per single deck to approximately $310 for a triptych of three decks. The 30-day return policy applies to all orders.

What DeckArts Is: The Premise

The DeckArts premise is specific: the skateboard deck is the best available substrate for domestic wall art reproduction of classical paintings. This claim rests on four specific properties of the Grade-A Canadian maple 7-ply cross-grain laminate:

Material warmth: The Canadian maple's warm amber grain (approximately 2,800–3,200K colour temperature) is a warm organic material that participates in the room's warm-neutral palette register. Unlike a white canvas print or a white-matted framed poster, the DeckArts deck is warm before the print is considered. The warm grain of the maple beneath the UV archival print creates the warm-material-cool-surface relationship that is specifically appropriate for Japandi, Scandinavian, and warm contemporary interiors.

Dimensional stability: The 7-ply cross-grain laminate is approximately 90% more dimensionally stable than solid wood, with approximately 0.3–0.5% dimensional change per 10% relative humidity change. This makes the deck suitable for rooms with humidity variation (including bathrooms) without the cracking, peeling, or distortion that affects canvas prints and framed paper prints in humid environments.

Print permanence: UV archival pigment inks cured by photopolymerisation directly to the maple surface are rated at ASTM I lightfastness (100+ years under standard indoor illumination conditions). The chemical bond between the UV-cured ink and the maple surface is more durable than the adhesive-and-coating systems of most canvas and paper prints.

Format specificity: The 85 × 20 cm vertical format of the DeckArts single deck is culturally specific and compositionally distinctive. The vertical narrow format creates a compositional crop of classical paintings that differs from the horizontal or square formats of most reproduction products — the DeckArts crop is a specific editorial choice, not a neutral reproduction. Each deck presents a curated section of the original composition, making the deck itself a compositional act.

Berlin: Why the Location Matters

DeckArts ships from Berlin — a city whose specific relationship to several of the works in the DeckArts range is more than coincidental:

Prussian blue: The specific blue of Hokusai's Great Wave, Van Gogh's Starry Night, and Van Gogh's Almond Blossom is Prussian blue (ferric ferrocyanide), invented in Berlin in 1704 by Johann Jacob Diesbach in the laboratory of alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel. Prussian blue reached Japan via Dutch trade around 1820 and became the defining chromatic signature of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series. DeckArts produces Hokusai's Great Wave in Berlin — the city where the pigment that makes the wave blue was invented 322 years ago.

Klimt and the Vienna Sezession: The Vienna Sezession (1897), which Klimt co-founded and which produced The Kiss and the Tree of Life, was part of a broader Central European modernist movement that Berlin was deeply engaged with. The Wiener Werkstätte exhibited in Berlin; Dürer's major works are in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin; the Hamburger Kunsthalle (accessible from Berlin) holds key German Romantic works. Berlin is the capital of the German cultural tradition that includes Dürer, Cranach, and the Northern Renaissance.

The East Side Gallery: DeckArts includes in its range an image of the East Side Gallery — the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall, now an open-air gallery of murals by artists from around the world, a 1.3 km stretch of painted concrete on the banks of the Spree. The East Side Gallery triptych is DeckArts' most specifically Berlin work: the wall as canvas, Berlin as the city where walls are painted rather than destroyed.

The Substrate: Not a Frame, Not a Poster

A DeckArts deck is not a poster in a frame, not a canvas print, not a metal print, and not a giclée. It is a Grade-A Canadian maple skateboard deck — a specific category of manufactured wooden object with specific mechanical and aesthetic properties — onto which UV archival pigment inks have been printed by a direct-to-board printing process.

The deck arrives ready to hang: stainless steel wall anchor hardware is included. No frame, no glass, no mat, no separate installation components. The deck is the complete art object: the warm maple body, the UV archival print surface, and the stainless hardware are the three components. Installation takes approximately 5 minutes per deck.

The specific visual experience of the DeckArts deck on a wall: the warm amber maple grain is visible at the edges (the natural wood zones on the sides and corners that are not covered by the printed image) and subtly visible beneath the printed image through the UV archival ink's transparent layers. The deck is a material object with physical presence — not a flat image on a flat surface but a warm organic object with a visual surface. The dimensional depth of the maple body (approximately 8–10 mm) casts a slight shadow on the wall at its edges under directed lighting, giving the deck a physical presence that flat print products do not have.

The Range: From Van Gogh to Hokusai to Klimt

The DeckArts range covers the canonical Western and Japanese masterworks most relevant to contemporary domestic interior design, dark academia, Japandi, Scandinavian, and Art Nouveau aesthetics. The range includes:

Van Gogh: Starry Night (triptych, ~$310), Sunflowers (triptych, ~$310), Almond Blossom (single, ~$140), Irises (single, ~$140), Bedroom in Arles (single, ~$140), Café Terrace at Night (single, ~$140), Wheatfield with Crows (single, ~$140).

Klimt: The Kiss (single, ~$140), Tree of Life (triptych, ~$310).

Hokusai: Great Wave (single ~$140, diptych ~$230, triptych ~$310).

Rembrandt: Night Watch (single ~$140, triptych ~$310).

Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring (single ~$140), The Milkmaid (single ~$140).

Botticelli: Birth of Venus (single ~$140), Primavera (single ~$140).

Caravaggio: Medusa (single ~$140).

Michelangelo: Creation of Adam (single ~$140).

Da Vinci: Vitruvian Man (single ~$140), Lady with an Ermine (single ~$140), Benois Madonna (single ~$140).

Munch: The Scream (single ~$140).

Dürer: Melencolia I, Adam and Eve (single ~$140).

Goya: Saturn Devouring His Son (diptych ~$230).

Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights (triptych ~$310).

Plus Raphael, Matisse, Magritte, Frida Kahlo, Bruegel, Rubens, Titian, Boucher, Gauguin, Napoleon (Ingres), and others.

Formats: Single, Diptych, Triptych, Gallery

Shipping from Berlin and Returns

DeckArts ships from Berlin, Germany to worldwide destinations. Standard shipping times from Berlin: Germany 2–5 business days; EU 5–10 business days; USA, Canada, Australia 10–20 business days. Expedited shipping options are available at checkout. All orders include tracking. The 30-day return policy applies to all orders: if you are not satisfied with your purchase for any reason, contact DeckArts within 30 days of delivery to initiate a return.

Why a Skateboard Deck: The Cultural Bridge

The skateboard deck as a wall art substrate is not a gimmick. The skateboard deck has been a surface for serious visual art since the 1970s, when the skateboard industry began commissioning artists to design deck graphics — a tradition that has produced significant collaborations between skateboard brands and contemporary artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Keith Haring, and dozens of others. The skateboard deck as a canvas has 50 years of cultural history as a legitimate art surface.

The DeckArts proposition is the inverse: instead of contemporary art on a skateboard deck, it is classical art on a skateboard deck. The same Grade-A Canadian maple, the same 7-ply cross-grain laminate, the same warm amber grain — but the image is Klimt's Kiss, Van Gogh's Starry Night, or Hokusai's Great Wave rather than a street art graphic. The cultural bridge is the substrate: the same warm organic material that carries skateboard culture carries classical culture. The meeting point of these two traditions on the same piece of warm Canadian maple is the specific proposition that distinguishes DeckArts from every other classical art reproduction format.

FAQ

What is DeckArts?

DeckArts is a Berlin-based brand that reproduces classical masterworks (Van Gogh, Klimt, Hokusai, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Botticelli, and others) on Grade-A Canadian maple skateboard decks using UV archival pigment inks (ASTM I rated, 100+ years). The decks ship from Berlin worldwide. The substrate is a 7-ply cross-grain laminate (approximately 90% more dimensionally stable than solid wood, suitable for bathrooms), warm amber grain (~2,800–3,200K colour temperature). From ~$140 single to ~$310 triptych. 30-day return policy.

Where does DeckArts ship from?

DeckArts ships from Berlin, Germany. Standard shipping: Germany 2–5 business days; EU 5–10 business days; USA/Canada/Australia 10–20 business days. Expedited options available. All orders include tracking. 30-day return policy on all orders. From ~$140.

What is the DeckArts return policy?

DeckArts offers a 30-day return policy on all orders. If you are not satisfied for any reason, contact DeckArts within 30 days of delivery to initiate a return. The return policy covers all formats (single, diptych, triptych, gallery). Contact: deckarts.com. From ~$140.

Article Summary

DeckArts (Berlin, founded by Stanislav Arnautov, Ukrainian creative director): classical masterworks on Grade-A Canadian maple skateboard decks, UV archival pigment inks (ASTM I, 100+ years), ships from Berlin worldwide. Substrate: 7-ply cross-grain laminate, Janka ~1,450 lbf, ~90% more stable than solid wood, warm amber grain ~2,800–3,200K. Berlin significance: Prussian blue invented Berlin 1704 (Hokusai Great Wave pigment), East Side Gallery, Northern Renaissance tradition. Not a poster/canvas/frame: warm material object with physical presence, stainless hardware included. Range: Van Gogh (Starry Night, Sunflowers, Almond Blossom, Irises, Bedroom, Café Terrace, Wheatfield), Klimt (Kiss, Tree of Life), Hokusai (Great Wave), Rembrandt (Night Watch), Vermeer (Pearl Earring, Milkmaid), Botticelli (Venus, Primavera), Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Munch, Dürer, Goya, Bosch, Raphael, Matisse, and others. Formats: single ~$140, diptych ~$230, triptych ~$310, 4-deck ~$430, 5-deck ~$560. Shipping: Germany 2–5 days, EU 5–10 days, USA/Canada/Australia 10–20 days. 30-day return. Cultural bridge: skateboard deck as art surface since 1970s (Basquiat, Haring, Fairey); DeckArts = classical art on the same warm maple substrate. DeckArts Berlin.

About the Author

Stanislav Arnautov is the founder of DeckArts and a creative director originally from Ukraine, now based in Berlin. With experience in branding, merchandise design and vector graphics, Stanislav connects classical art, skateboard culture and contemporary interior design through premium skateboard wall art.