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Saturday Art Saves: Michele Wilson Puzzles

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Photo Via Michele Wilson Puzzles

 

Each Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on fire to create.

Those who inspire art to flow where it may.

 

 

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Photo Via Michele Wilson Puzzles

 

"For the past 35 years, in a small village in Burgundy, France, a unique skill, the art of wooden jigsaw puzzle cutting has been transmitted through the generations. Our artisans have mastered the use of the jigsaw, and create puzzles whose every piece is unique. This skill has allowed the Ateliers d'Art de France, to award Puzzle maker Michele Wilson."

 

Lucky for me Michele Wilson's amazing shop is next to our apartment in Paris.


 

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Photo Via Michele Wilson Puzzles

 

 

Puzzle Michèle Wilson offers :

  • Wooden adult jigsaw puzzles, ranging from 80 to 5000 pieces

  • Puzzles with larges pieces, for adults, sold in metal cases.

  • Wooden puzzles of 40 pieces for adults

  • Children jigsaw puzzles ranging from 12 to 100 pieces, sold in plastic trays.

 

 

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Photo Via Michele Wilson Puzzles
"Michel Wilson's puzzles are far more difficult than classic jigsaw puzzles. The pieces are all different and cannot be sorted out by kind. The cutting goes along the shapes of the image, it is the artisan that separates shapes and colors, and creates the difficulty, not a machine. They are unique, the strategy of resolution of each puzzle is different."

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Click here to see Michele's shop in Paris, plus watch a video of her work.
"Handcrafted in France, the puzzles are cut from plaques of poplar tree that comes from sustainable forests. Each puzzle is sold with a description of the artwork, represented in its entirety to help reconstruct the puzzle, also to let you learn about the history of the artwork and artist." Text Via Michele Wison's site.
Unfortuantely, I did not take any personal photos of the puzzles. My friend's have a few, they are beautiful! Frame worthy. 
For more information
Contact
Michele Wilson Puzzle's
http://www.puzzles-et-jeux.com/
116 Rue du Château
75014 Paris
01 43 22 28 73

Comments

7 responses to “Saturday Art Saves: Michele Wilson Puzzles”

  1. Marilyn

    They are beautiful!

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  2. Leigh NZ

    Exquisite!! How funny, a friend and I adore large difficult jigsaws and were only saying the other day that we must pick up some puzzles on our trip to France. You know where we’ll be heading when in Paris. We find puzzles very soothing and have endless patience in order to finish them. I love that these ones are wooden pieces.

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  3. Kathie B

    Magnifique, Michele!

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  4. Evelyn

    Wow! As a puzzle person, I’m enthralled with these. I’ll definitely make a visit to her shop on my next trip to Paris. First, tho, I’ll have to find this arrondissement…not where I usually wander in Paris!

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  5. Peggy Braswell

    So beautiful + fun. Puzzels!xxpeggybraswelldesign.com

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  6. 24/7 in France

    Such a unique idea – absolutely stunning!

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  7. Joanna

    This is so inspiring!
    And Very French!
    A young woman, a wooden puzzle maker, in her own shop…

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