{"product_id":"aigle-de-la-liberte-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Liberty Eagle Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAn eagle breaking out of its own frame\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWings spread wide, talons dropped, head turned sharp left. The bird is painted over a mandala that fills the disc behind it in coral, turquoise, gold and magenta, and both wingtips push past the circle, the tail following at the lower right, so the outline is a disc with blades cutting out of it at three points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe bird is cool where the ground is warm. Slate blue and violet through the wings, crimson along the shoulder and the tail, a white head and a yellow beak. The mandala runs warmest at its heart, reds and golds around a glowing centre, which pushes the eagle forward off it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere to begin\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe white head is the anchor. It is the only pale area on a saturated board, and it sits at the point where the two wings and the body meet, so placing it early fixes three directions at once. From there the wing feathers work outward: they are large, individually outlined and shaded from dark root to light tip, which makes them among the easiest pieces in the collection to place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe mandala is the slow half. It is symmetrical, so a piece from the lower left has a near-twin on the lower right, and its motifs are softer-edged than the bird's, with colours bleeding into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat people do with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis one gets finished in a single sitting more often than the larger designs, and the reason is structural: the board is compact and the picture divides cleanly into bird and background. Builders separate the two by colour temperature in the first few minutes, cool pieces to one side and warm to the other, and the sort holds all the way through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe projecting wingtips get left until the end. Each attaches along a single edge, and until the wing beside it is complete there is nothing to test them against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe one a customer recommended for starting\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA buyer who bought several of these described this design as a good way into wooden puzzles: at 150 pieces it is a fine puzzle to begin with in this world, and it is beautiful. It is the smallest piece count in our round range and the least demanding of the eight, which matches that reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the eagle carries\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAscension, vision and sovereignty, and the symbolism is unusually consistent. The eagle was the bird of Zeus in Greek myth, bearer of his thunderbolt, the standard of Roman legions, and it remains the emblem of more states than any other bird. Where the lion rules the ground, the eagle takes the sky, and European symbol dictionaries pair them for exactly that reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAfterwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the smallest board in the round line and fits where the bigger discs will not: a narrow stretch of wall, a shelf between books, a desk. The wingtips and tail standing off the circle keep it from reading as a plate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256695111811,"sku":"PC109","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/54_50cca012-5b86-4d08-a9f1-398d582384d0.jpg?v=1780866795","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/liberty-eagle-wooden-puzzle","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}