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Ballerina€95.00Turn 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€110.00A pink flamingo at “Soliti Ignoti” In 2019 I was invited to the Transmission "Soliti Ignoti", guest of Amadeus. I chose to reproduce a pink flamingo, an animal with an elegant bearing, so that it would be a welcome gift for the presenter's wife, a well-known dancer.
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Personal archipelago€110.00My 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€40.00Life 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. Ricordo che da Piccolo passavo ore e ore a giocare con il mio camioncino, e nella mia fantasia lo caricavo, scaricavo e guidavo veramente. Questo carillon, dalle forme più regolari e pure che esistano – il rettangolo ed il cerchio - mi riporta con la mente a quelle ore felicemente interminabili.
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Car(D)illon€120.00London 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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Colourmotive€110.00I want a train loaded with colours A father wanted to give his son a music box, but the boy was crazy about toy trains. It seemed to him to have made an irreconcilable request, nevertheless playing with geometrical shapes, I managed to create a little stylised train full of colours. I only ask the customer to express his wish, then it is up to me to give it a shape!
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Danse avec les fleurs€110.00Dance 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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Two by two€45.00Asymmetrical lines for parallel paths Music box produced as First Communion party favors of two very close cousins... I thought of similar shapes with different colours, two boys next to each other, near and conspirational. I like to imagine that this music box will accompany them in their life journey...
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It is for you€100.00Births 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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The lighthouse€40.00Guardians of my island Another article that represents my Sicilianism, dedicated to the coasts keepers, from Augusta to Favignana, passing from Lampedusa and then moving to San Vito lo Capo, hiking up to the top of Strombolicchio to the Montorsoli Beacon, visible to those coming from the continent. My lighthouse, with its essential shapes, represents them all and has become one of the most captivating items in my production.
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Escapisms€110.00Control tower, we are ready to fly This 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€40.00“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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Ford€45.00Crank engines I have always been fascinated by the shapes of vintage cars, with their simple yet captivating lines. Big toys that have crossed centuries. Only in 1910 the ignition became electric, but before then it was necessary to turn a crank, like the one of the music box, to start an old Ford and bring us back to the U.S. of the beginning of 1900.
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Family forms€120.00Take these hands of mine, make them life, make love of them. Carillon requested by a Sicilian architect who wanted to express the union of his family. The geometric shape that immediately came to my mind was the circumference, because in it every point is firm, like in a family embrace, it is tightened tightly and held close to the heart.
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To photo-graph€40.00Write with the light Created 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 creaaaam!!!€45.00A peddler, three wheels and more flavours By 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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The train€90.00A kids’ game and more! This music box – construction game has been conceived while playing with my son. I created several solids with holes and wooden pegs, I put them on the table in front of him and his creativity let loose. The result is a modular and fun music box… upon my son’s word!
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In love with you€120.00I would like to raise you A father in love with his wife and his son, 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€60.00Fertile ground for creative talents This 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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Enchantment€110.00Because you are there Il is difficult to put into words that wonderful feeling of enchantment and incredulity that one feels when watching at his newborn baby. I have tried to do it with my music box Enchantment, created for a couple of new parents from New York. Mom and Dad hold each other’s hands, united and filled with tenderness, they contemplate that little creature in silence almost holding their breath, a single thought: “Because you are there. You really are there”.
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The hot-air baloon€45.00Together as concentric circles A 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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Free to grow€110.00...only teach the magic of life "Do not teach children but cultivate yourself your heart and mind, always be by their side, trust in love, the rest means nothing" Giorgio Gaber
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The big wheel€45.00The city from above Imagine 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!
