Guillermo Mordillo is a very popular choice for puzzle pictures, especially European brands like Heye and Clementoni. This puzzle is actually made by Clementoni puzzles. Mordillo was well know for his cartoon characters that have big noses and are simple line drawings.
Just like this couple here, enjoying a dinner at the top of a skyscraper building, surrounded by many other tall skyscrapers! I have to say that I was really drawn to the buildings, I just thought that part would be fun and a little tricky. I was right too, I puzzled this without looking at the box, which had me puzzling a little longer.
Mordillo was an Argentinian illustrator that lived all throughout Europe, he seems to have won tons of awards in his career, and passed away at the age of 89 in 2019. I know that I’ve seen a lot of his drawings before, they’re not really my style but I am not here to yuck anyone else’s yum!
I really liked the quality of all the blues in this puzzle. I’m always very drawn to blues, and greens, and this puzzle had the just the right hue.
I found this fully sealed at the thrift store a while back, I was pretty happy to find it, I had just gotten my Nova Scotia drivers licence and popped into the nearby thrift store! That made for a pretty good day 🙂 Clementoni is a really nice brand, they remind me a lot of Ravensburger puzzles though they seem to be less dusty and have a slightly looser fit to their pieces. That being said, the fit is a sure fit, there’s no question, or mistaken fit, and I really appreciate that.
We do need to ask ourselves one question – Why does Clementoni make such giant boxes? Seriously, this is quite a small puzzle and the box is nearly as large as the assembled puzzle, when broken apart the pieces could fit into a box a third of the size. This is a personal pet peeve of mine, I don’t have the most storage space and I do have a lot of puzzles at the moment, can we make the boxes a little more compact, please?
Anyway, my rant is over, thanks for reading, everyone! Check out the only other Clementoni puzzle I assembled a couple of years ago,
thepuzzlesivedone 