{"product_id":"renard-dore-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Golden Fox Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA fox sitting in front of the sun\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fox faces right in profile, tail curled forward around its feet, against a sun set high in the disc. Everything around it is meadow: stems, seed heads and blooms drawn in spirals and curls, layered so densely that the plants read as texture rather than as individual flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is almost entirely warm. Gold, amber, rust and honey, cooled only by the dark green of the undergrowth at the edges and by the black tips of the ears. The fox's own coat carries the same spiral work as the meadow, so the animal and the field are painted in one vocabulary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFoxes in the sun\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figural pieces sit where you will find them last: inside the sun itself, where the paint is flattest and palest. Fox kits in different poses, and against the plain gold of the disc their outlines are visible before you lift them, which is the reverse of how the silhouette designs hide theirs in dense pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFlip any piece over and there is a second, quieter pattern printed on the back – a feature of this whole round range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat people do with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sun and the meadow get separated immediately and worked as two different tasks. The meadow pieces carry high-contrast spiral motifs and can be matched by eye; builders place most of them without hesitation. The sun pieces go into a pile of their own and get solved by shape alone, usually at the end, one by one into the closing gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fox-shaped pieces are the exception in that pile: they are recognisable and they go in early, which leaves the plain gold pieces to be worked out around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it gets slow\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sun is the one large area on this board where the ornament stops completely. It carries almost no detail, just a gradient from pale cream at the centre to deep gold at the rim, and the pieces there differ from each other by fractions of a tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fox's face is the other extreme: the eye, the black nose and the white cheek are the sharpest features on the board and go in first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the fox has meant\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fox is documented as a trickster across an unusual spread of traditions, from the European tales of Reynard to the Japanese kitsune, which is a shape-shifter and a messenger of the harvest deity rather than simply a cunning animal. Both readings agree on intelligence and on ambiguity. Neither treats the fox as straightforwardly good or bad, which is worth knowing if this is going to someone as a gift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAfterwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA clean circle. The warm palette makes it the easiest of the round designs to place in a room with wood, brass or terracotta already in it, and the hardest to place against cool grey or blue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256694947971,"sku":"PC098","price":25.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Puzzle-en-Bois-Renard-dore.jpg?v=1780866787","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/golden-fox-wooden-puzzle","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}