Orient Express
A 1000 piece Jigsaw Puzzle
- Publication Date: October 17, 2023
- Imprint: Skittledog
- Trim Size: 27 x 19 3⁄8
- ISBN: 9781837760244
- Page Count: 1
- Illustrations: 1,000-piece boxed jigsaw puzzle, plastic-free packaging
- Rights: US and Canada
A nostalgic jigsaw journey through a dream-like collage landscape of European railways
Join celebrated collage artist Maria Rivans on a nostalgic jigsaw journey across Europe! Winding through the heart of the continent, you’ll be delighted by a host of cosmopolitan sights and spectacular landscapes, with intriguing prewar imagery conjuring up the age of steam. The collage includes hundreds of images, featuring all the stops on the historic Orient Express routes: London, Calais, Paris, Strasbourg, Zurich, Lausanne, Simplon Tunnel, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Innsbruck, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Bucharest, Varna, Istanbul, Athens, Berlin, and more. Drawing heavily on the prewar and fin de siècle, this puzzle is both a mysterious, inviting view of Europe and a gorgeous celebration of the age of steam.
About the author
Maria Rivans is a collage artist based in Brighton, UK. She curated the images in the hugely successful Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage (2020). Her work has been exhibited widely and internationally, and she’s also behind the distinctive visual identity of Hendrick’s Gin. Her artist statement characterizes her work as being “[k]nown for its unique approach to collaging . . . [and] in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing narratives, while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales.”
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