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ballerina€115.00Turn into my hands First position represents the beginning for every ballet dancer. This music box has been the first of my works. The first creation couldn’t be anything else but the music box par excellence: the ballerina!
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Amadeus€130.00A pink flamingo to the Usual Unknowns In 2019 I was invited to the Broadcast "Usual Unknowns", host of Amadeus. I chose to reproduce a pink flamingo, an animal with an elegant bearing, so that it was a welcome gift for the wife of the presenter, an established dancer.
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Personal archipelago€140.00My land is where I rest my feet A Sicilian family emigrated in Australia, turned to me for a personalised creation, driven by the wish to bring some of our wonderful land with them. Their nostalgia inspired me this music box that, thanks to the power of imagination, move these two different and distant places closer: a couple and a kangaroo live the islands above a sea of notes.
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Vroom vroom€50.00Life is more fun if you play Which child hasn’t dreamt of driving a truck? I remember that, when I was a child, I used to spend hours and hours playing with my little truck and in my fantasy I would load it, unload it and drive it for real. This music box, made with the most regular and pure shapes that exist – rectangle and circle – brings me back to those happily endless hours.
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Car(D)illon€140.00London images and notes Music box meant for a person living in London, who wished to represent his new city. A “cardillon” came out: a postcard within a carillon. It could be the first music box of a series portraying the cities of my customers.
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Con-voglio€130.00Voglio un treno con tanti colori Un papà voleva donare al proprio figlio un carillon, ma il bambino era un amante dei trenini. Gli sembrava di avere fatto una richiesta inconciliabile Invece, giocando con le forme geometriche, sono riuscito a realizzare un trenino stilizzato pieno di colori. Al cliente chiedo solo di esprimere il proprio desiderio, poi spetta a me dargli forma!
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Danse avec les fleurs€140.00Dance as if no one was watching Flowers normally are offered to each dancer at the end of a show. In my music box they become essential scenography, silent audience, colourful presence.
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From father to son€40.00Up there it is always the same... Piano Battaglia, a mountain resort on the Madonie reminds me of excursions I used yo do with my family when I was a child and now, after so many years, it is wonderful to take my son. Generations follow one another, but some places remain unaltered over time. A fir tree and a house like those of that wonderful place symbolize family and the cycles of nature and life.
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It is for you€125.00Births and rebirths of life When a child comes into the world, a mother and a father are also born… that is so true! This music box was created as a gift for a pregnant woman. The melody will accompany nine months of intimacy, it will become a lullaby for each nap and will remain the symbol of the family bond, transitional object of every life step, capable of transmitting warmth and security!
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Il faro€55.00Custodi della mia isola Altro articolo che rappresenta la mia sicilianitudine, dedicato ai custodi delle coste, da Augusta a Favignana, passando per Lampedusa e spostandosi poi a San Vito lo Capo, salendo in alto in cima allo Strombolicchio fino alla Lanterna Montorsoli visibile a chi arriva dal continente. Il mio faro, con le sue forme essenziali, li rappresenta tutti ed è divenuto uno degli articoli più accattivanti della mia produzione.
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Escapisms€145.00Control tower, we are ready to flyThis music box was created for the owner of a travel agency. What better than a plane to express the wish of a carefree departure!
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Dumbo€50.00“Elefant prodige“In the days when the reimagining of Dumbo was being released in the movie theatres, a family from Lecce ordered me a party favour to celebrate their daughter’s birth. The baby elephant recalls the tenderness of a new life.
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Forme familiari€155.00Prendi queste mie mani, fanne vita, fanne amore Carillon richiesto da parte di un architetto siciliano che desiderava esprimere l’unione della sua famiglia. La forma geometrica che mi è subito venuta in mente è stata la circonferenza, perché in essa ogni punto è saldo, come in un abbraccio familiare, ci si stringe forte e ci si tiene vicini al cuore.
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To photo-graph€50.00Write with the lightCreated for a photographer, this music box depicts her main instrument, a vintage camera: “the camera is a sort of professor: it teaches me to understand the world, to see how things come together. It teaches me to remember the past because it makes me look back. I obey from time to time, but not always. It’s like a person”. Arno Rafael Minkkinen
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Ice creaaaaaam!!!€55.00A peddler, three wheels and more flavoursBy now, ice cream carts are rare in Italian and European metropolis. They were one of the symbols of products “made in Italy” exported abroad as a consequence of Italian emigration. When a mother from Palermo requested me a music box for her daughter, which would bring her back in time, I remembered an ancient photo I had seen in a café, portraying an ice cream seller and his cart: a vintage yet romantic idea.
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In love with you€155.00I would like to raise you.A father in love with his wife, turned to me for a gift from Saint Valentine that really left him speechless. After so many sketches and projects we have come to the creation of a music box that focuses on the love of their family, warm and powerful like the fire of a balloon.
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Imagination€70.00This music box was manufactured for a jewelry designer, as gift for her little nephew. The request was that of a composition of shapes and colours to depict a tractor in a minimal style. You can see the result in the pictures… judge yourselves!
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Incanto€135.00Perché tu ci sei È difficile esprimere a parole quella meravigliosa sensazione di incanto e incredulità che si prova nel guardare il proprio figlio appena venuto al mondo. Ho tentato di farlo con il mio carillon incanto, realizzato per due neogenitori di New York. Mamma e papà si tengono per mano, uniti e colmi di tenerezza contemplano quella piccola creatura in silenzio, quasi trattenendo il respiro, un solo pensiero ‘Perché tu ci sei. Ci sei davvero’.
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The hot-air baloon€50.00Together as concentric circlesA girl wished something unique for her friends, a music box that recalled freedom… Who hasn’t dreamt to fly and to do it together with beloved people? I imagined them on a hot-air balloon, weightless and timeless, like if they were hanging on the sky, in the world where birds plunge their wings into the clouds.
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Libera di crescere€90.00… insegnate soltanto la magia della vita “Non insegnate ai bambini ma coltivate voi stessi il cuore e la mente stategli sempre vicini date fiducia all'amore il resto è niente” Giorgio Gaber
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The big wheel€55.00The city from aboveImagine to be in a city that you would like to visit, embark on a cabin, turn the handle and you will hear a melody. Thus your imagination will set off. Like when you were going on the big wheel as a child, by magic you will feel like seeing the whole city from above!
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The time machine€40.00Not just 4 wheels Some people see an historic car, others see a modern MPV, I only put together squares and circles to shape a toy car to the delight of children. I still remember my favourite toy car, the one I used to play with as a child. I hope this one could become as unforgettable for someone!
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Point of view€145.00Describe the world around you, you will understand how lucky you areA photographer’s gaze on the world passes through his camera’s viewfinder. This is the idea that guided me in creating the music box Point of View, ordered by a girl from Padua as a gift for her uncle, who is a photographer. Here you see the photographer on the background of the music box, leaning on his equipment aiming the lens to shoot as a gigantic human eye.
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We inform all passengers€50.00That a new life is arriving on platform oneBirth may be fantasized in so many ways. I like to think that an imaginary train could bring a new life and make parents and relatives happy. That’s why little trains are the subjects for party favours that I prefer to realize.
