{"product_id":"lion-majestueux-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Majestic Lion Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA lion built from the animals of his own savannah\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe portrait faces you straight on, and the mane is where the work is. Each strand is a separate feather-shaped segment filled with its own pattern, in orange, yellow, turquoise, lilac and deep red, so the fur reads as ornament rather than as hair. The eyes are the one calm part of the design: pale blue-grey, and the only place on the board where the pattern stops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe animals hidden in the mane\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScattered through the lion are figural pieces cut in the shape of other creatures. An elephant, a rhino, a giraffe, a tortoise, a striped hyena, birds in flight, and two palm trees. Lift one out and it leaves a clean silhouette in the board, which is how you notice them at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey sit inside the mane and the muzzle rather than around the edges, so you meet them mid-assembly rather than at the start. Several are small enough to pass for ordinary pieces until you notice the outline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is also where the table gets loud. The animals pass for ordinary pieces just long enough that every discovery becomes an announcement – nobody holds up a plain piece to show the room, but everybody holds up the giraffe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the mane fights you\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same warm palette repeats across every strand of the mane, and the strands themselves are close to symmetrical, so two pieces from opposite sides of the head can look interchangeable until you try them. What separates them is the pattern inside: a row of zigzags against a row of dots, a turquoise field against a lilac one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStart at the eyes and the nose – the only high-contrast areas on the board – then work outward through the muzzle before attempting the mane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the lion has stood for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lion has carried the same meaning across an unusual number of cultures: solar power, courage and rule. Sekhmet in Egypt, the lions of Greek myth, the Lion of Judah in Christian art, and the lion that dominates European heraldry more than any other beast. It is one of the few animal symbols that does not reverse itself from one tradition to the next, which is part of why it works as a gift for someone who would find a wolf or an owl ambiguous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOn the wall afterwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinished, it is small enough for a bookshelf or a narrow stretch of wall beside a door. The silhouette needs no frame, and the dark outer edge of the mane does the work a frame normally would. And if you prefer facets to ornament, the same animal exists in a second temperament: the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/the-lion-mozaik-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eLion Mozaik\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Wooden box","offer_id":47256686362755,"sku":"PC009","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cardboard box","offer_id":48045200834691,"sku":"PC110","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Lion-Majestueux-Puzzle-en-bois-2.jpg?v=1780866576","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/majestic-lion-wooden-puzzle","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}