{"product_id":"elephant-sauvage-puzzle-en-bois","title":"The Wild Elephant Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEars that fill the board\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe elephant faces forward with both ears spread wide, and they take up more of the surface than the head does. The ornament is paisley rather than tribal, worked in deep red, violet and blue, with the trunk running down the centre as columns of beadwork and the yellow curves of the tusks either side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the darkest of our frontal portraits and the most symmetrical, since an elephant seen head-on is almost perfectly mirrored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo ears, one problem\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ears carry near-identical paisley across both sides, and they are the largest area on the board. A piece from the left ear will sit convincingly in the right ear's gap until the pattern is checked for direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no colour variation between them to help, and the paisley motifs repeat at a small scale, so the two ears have to be built alternately rather than one after the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is cut into the ears\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigural pieces sit across the ears and the head: a wolf, a bull, a fish, birds, a pineapple, leaves. They are less thematically tied than on the cat or the fox, and the mix is deliberately unexpected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a board this symmetrical they serve a second purpose: each one is unique, so a figural piece is the only thing here that cannot be confused with its opposite number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe trunk is the anchor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt runs down the centre line in a texture of its own – beaded columns where everything around it is paisley – and belongs to neither half. Build it first, then work outward into the ears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a second elephant in the range: our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/the-watercolour-elephant-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eWatercolour Elephant\u003c\/a\u003e, the same subject in flat colour blocks and an easier build.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Wooden box","offer_id":47256689180803,"sku":"PC057","price":32.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cardboard box","offer_id":47256689213571,"sku":"PC083","price":24.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/TRN020281.jpg?v=1780866646","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/the-wild-elephant-wooden-puzzle","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}