design enzo mari
danese, italy, 1972
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these fishes are all different and recognizable on sight. They fit into one another jig-saw-fashion and can also be stood upright becouse the vertical position is balanced by the tthickness of the material they are made of. Game of icreasing complexity can be playedwhit them. There are no given rules becouse the complex of formal and symbolic relationship that caracterizes the animals stimulates the relating aptitude proper to the child's stage of development. From the age of two onwards, the child has 10 years stimulation of playing skills offered to him by this game. The range of interpretation encourages the child to develop his creative capacity, leaving rules of the game to his own invention, precluding any didactic ruling or guidance which is, as such, always of a repressive nature. From 2 to 12 years. cm 34x24x3, made in expandable resin - 1972
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