{"product_id":"france-decouverte-puzzle-en-bois","title":"France Discovery Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA map that is also a tour\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCut to the outline of France rather than to a circle, and filled with drawn landmarks placed where they belong: the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame in Paris, the cliffs of Brittany, lavender in Provence, Rocamadour on its rock, a beach umbrella at Biarritz, the arches of the Pont du Gard in the south. Regions are named in ribbons across the map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the largest boards we cut, at 38 cm – and the only one shaped like a country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe landmarks are pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe best of it: many of the drawings lift out whole. The Eiffel Tower, the rooster, a hot-air balloon and their neighbours are cut as figure pieces, so placing them is placing the landmark itself – and a finished map hides them in plain sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRegions are the sorting method\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are grouped geographically, so the board divides naturally into six or seven areas, each with its own palette and its own set of drawings. Pieces sort by region rather than by colour, which is a faster method than either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe coastline is the anchor. It is the only continuous line on the board, and almost all of its edge, and building it first turns the puzzle into a filling-in exercise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho buys it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeople with a relationship to a particular part of France rather than to the country in general. Someone from Brittany looks for Brittany first. That is a different purchase from a landscape photograph, where the subject is the view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also reads as a map from across a room, which the landscape discs do not, so it works in a hallway or a study rather than only as decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256686854275,"sku":"PC019","price":49.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/La-France-Decouverte-Puzzle-en-bois-9.jpg?v=1780866586","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/france-discovery-wooden-puzzle","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}