Description
– Launched Feb 2019 on Kickstarter, 443 backers contributed $26,759 out of $15,000 goal, to bring this project to life.
– Check out the YouTube review by Magic Cards Playing
– Available editions :
1. Pinocchio Sapphire (Blue)
2. Pinocchio Vermilion (Red)
3. Collodi’s Pinocchio (Purple book tuck)
4. Pinocchio Vermilion II Edition (Silver)
5. Pinocchio Vermilion II Edition (Red)
6. Pinocchio Vermilion II Edition (Black)
🪐 The details in this Kickstarter project are so mesmerising, strongly recommend that you pop over to the page.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/passione/pinocchio-playing-cards
🪐 Collodi’s Pinocchio represents the acme of Pinocchio Playing Cards, a special project retracing the pivotal moments in Carlo Collodi’s acclaimed The Adventures of Pinocchio.
The double-deck book-like tuck box is designed to hold both Sapphire and Vermilion playing cards in a luxurious, limited, and numbered edition.
🪐 The tuck box is printed with silver and copper foil on coloured paper stock. The playing cards are printed in the USA with metallic inks on both the faces and the back design by The United States Playing Card Company.
🪐 At the culminus of the Pinocchio Playing Cards project soars “Collodi’s Pinocchio”. Born from the experience gathered with Acheronte in Inferno Playing Cards.
🪐 The two decks are protected two times: first with a wide lid that “closes the book” and then with two individual flaps. The double tuck case opens like a book and shows the illustrations on the “pages”.
🪐 Centuries ago there lived– “A king!” my little readers will say immediately. “No, children; you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.”
That’s the beginning of one of the most famous children’s novel in history, written by Carlo Collodi (nom de plume of Carlo Lorenzini, born in Florence, on the 24th of November, 1826) and translated into 240 different languages.
🪐 Passione Playing Cards is proud to present to you the debut of Elettra Deganello in the world of playing cards, with a project retracing the story of Pinocchio in both its joyful and dark moments.
🪐 Pinocchio Sapphire deck: 56 cards, printed by USPCC with metallic inks, foiled tuck cases on colored paper by Gambler’s Warehouse. All custom faces.
🪐 Pinocchio Vermilion deck: 56 cards, printed by USPCC with metallic inks, foiled tuck cases on colored paper by Gambler’s Warehouse. All custom faces (100% different from Sapphire)
🪐 All decks will be printed by USPCC with metallic inks both on the back and the front of the cards. All of the illustrations in the two decks are different. Red suits feature gold ink accents, while black suits silver accents. In Pinocchio Vermilion the red hearts and diamonds are the same shade as an original poker deck, while in Pinocchio Sapphire the typical shading of hearts and diamonds has been replaced with a stunning blue.
🪐 This work has been endorsed by the National Carlo Collodi Foundation: the Italian institution that officially takes care of the legacy of Pinocchio. Special extra cards dedicated to the National Carlo Collodi Foundation
🪐 The Pinocchio Playing Cards project will be printed by USPCC (makers of the world-renowned Bicycle® playing cards) on Air-Cushion finish. You may have seen Air-Cushion mentoned as Cambric, Linen, Magic or Embossed, but they are all terms used by USPCC to identify the same finish. Metallic inks will be used for gold and silver accents. The tuck cases will be printed with pure foil on colored paper by the Gambler’s Warehouse.
🪐Passione is a brand of custom playing cards, aimed to bring Italian design and Italian culture into the world of custom playing cards, to promote the culture of custom playing cards and to be a reference for the cardistry movement in Italy.
🪐 Born in the town of Saptrap, Elettra is raised by the Fairy with Turquoise Hair in her house in the woods. After years and years of unremitting study, her hair starts turning blue… So she decides to play some cockaigne in the famous Land of Toys.
🪐 Getting tired of her boyfriend, the megalomaniac Ringmaster, she organizes a meeting with Fire-Eater on the Island of the Busy Bees to design a deck of playing cards about the super star of his show: Pinocchio. The adventures of Elettra in the Land of Playing Cards will be numerous and exciting, but one thing is sure: you, my dear backers, are going to play a role in this fairy tale.”
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