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THE NUTCRACKER PHANTASMAGORIA


About two hundred years ago, in a remote German village, lived a farmer who was very rich but with a heart of stone. Because of his bad temper, he had neither family nor friends. He spent every Christmas alone in his little house in front of the fire, crushing the nuts produced by his trees. As he grew older the work began to weigh him more and more, thus he decided to ask the villagers for help, offering a reward to anyone who was able to invent "something" to allow him to crush nuts without getting tired. 

Many presented him with the strangest and most particular accomplishments, but none of them enthused him. One day a poor carver from Seiffen knocked on his door and carried a piece of wood shaped like a soldier. It was painted in bright colors and its peculiarity was the jaw able to crush nuts. When asked what the figure meant, the poor man explained to the rich farmer that, according to legend, a huge wooden nutcracker shaped as a soldier had been created, in the fourteenth century, by the population to rebel against increasingly heavy taxes and the constant pressure of German troops.

The farmer not only appreciated the nutcracker but also understood the lesson it had implicitly given him. So his heart of stone melted and he decided to give all his possessions to those in need. Since then he was loved by all the inhabitants of the village and the Nutcracker, a symbol of revolt, became a Christmas icon of love and kindness.




THE PHANTASMAGORIAS

Phantasmagorias are micro-cosmos in which ancient fairy tales and future legends thicken and intertwine, personal dreams and collective nightmares, atavistic memories and ancestral instincts, desires without a time and hopes without place. 
Their name is formed by "phantom", "ghost" (from the Greek ϕάντασμα, "show", "appear") and the suffix  "-agoria" (from the Greek αγορά, "assembly", "gathering", or ἀγορεύω, "speaking publicly") which creates an association with "allegory" rhetorical figure in which one image overshadows another.
The Phantasmagorias are fragments of the invisible reality allowing to access the Beyond dimension through a dizzying spiral of symbols able to reinchant the dinsenchanted world increasingly flattened on the material dimension of the here and now.
Each Phantasmagoria tells a secret story in which each individual can recognize himself and can use it to better understand himself and others, the present, the past and the future by decrypting the images, the signs, the clues, composing it. 
For this reason it is accompanied by a very short text with some suggestions about the story it tells.



MATERIALS
  • glass,
  • polymeric clay,
  • ecological colors.


DIMENSIONS
  • width: 10 cm = 3.9 in, depth: 9 cm = 3.5 in, height: 23 cm = 9.1 in.



THE PRODUCT

The two sides of the jar are decorated with an empty frame that can be customized, depending on the buyer's tastes and desires with symbols, acronyms, short mottos...
This is a glass jar for collectors and lovers of small works of art, rare and extravagant handicrafts, curious and sophisticated, refined and original, iconic-symbolic and exclusive objects suitable for a Wunderkammer (Chamber of Wonders) of the new era.
Decorated with small 3D sculptures created in polymeric clay painted by hand with ecological colors by Amira Munteanu Bergmann, being handmade it is a unique piece of which there will never be another perfectly identical.



HANDMADE PRODUCTS MADE IN ITALY

The Phantasmagoria of the Crowned Lion, being a work completely (from its concept to the creation of small sculptures, from its coloring to decoration) signed Amira di Transilvania, is a 100% Made in Italy product. 
For its realization it took 17 hours of work.
Moreover, having been inspired by a philosophy of complete respect for the environment in the choice of materials that compose it, starting from the base container that is recycled, it is also 100% ecological.


CERTIFICATION AND GUARANTEE

As a unique piece, a small work of art, the customer will receive it accompanied by a certificate-guarantee that attests: 
  • its registration in Amira di Transilvnia's Archive,
  • its number of accomplishments,
  • the 100% Italian brand, 
  • the 100% Italian manufacture,
  • the 100% ecological and sustainable processes,
  • the buyer's name.



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BRAND DESCRIPTION


Amira di Transilvania is both a brand and a monobrand store 100% Made in Italy.

To sign them is Amira Munteanu Bergmann who, as an artist, actress, entrepreneur, passionate and curious researcher, scholar and collector, is one of the most brilliant and multifaceted figures on the Italian scene. 





COPYRIGHT


All Amira di Transilvania products are covered by copyright. 

Thus the reproduction, either integral or partial, of them and of their images is forbidden. 

Any violation of intellectual property will be sanctioned in accordance with the law. 

Amira di Transilvania brand has no dealer around the world. 

All its products are sold only and exclusively in Amira di Transilvania real and virtual stores. 





MISSION


Amira di Transilvania evaluates the importance of Made in Italy craftsmanship, therefore it enhances the talent and the resources of Creatives and Designers working by hand in Italy, in an environmentally responsible and sustainable way. 

By re-evaluating local production, it fights against multinational and mass consumerism brands that relocate, exploiting foreign workers as well as losing control over the quality of what they put on the market.

No poduct in Amira di Transilvania store are purchased and resold.

Everything, from the initial concept to its realization up to the way of communicating it, is rigorously signed and created by Amira di Transilvania. 

The main goal of the Brand is the complete satisfaction of the needs, of the desires and of the whims of its buyers.





HANDMADE ITALIAN PRODUCTS


Each product signed by Amira di Transilvania is customized, in limited edition and series, fully conceived, designed, modeled, painted, decorated by hand, with eco-sustainable materials. 

For this reason there will never be two perfectly alike objects. 

To underline their uniqueness, each of them is accompanied by a certificate of guarantee and orginality, marked by an archive number and headed with the name of the purchaser.

Respecting all the criteria of environmental sustainability, craftnabship and uniqueness, Amira di Transilvania is a 100% Made in Italy luxury brand.




CUSTOMIZED PRODUCTS


Since Amira di Transilvania products are handmade, it is possible to request their customization WITHOUT additional costs. 

Everyone can, therefore, receive in short, his small work of art, unique and unrepeatable, made according to his specific indications and requests.

Finally, Amira di Transilvania also offers personalized gift boxes and many gift ideas that can satisfy all the needs, desires and whims of its customers.

CONTACT Amira di Transilvania for FREE consultation.