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A new episode of Alessi figure collection: this time they are in laser cut stainless steel, which is then bent and pressed.
Anna tells the story: The giraffe Zaffrà, thanks to her long neck, was able to announce the end of the great flood from the deck of the Ark. After all the time she had spent together
with the other animal species, and after a cramped, but hospitable, life there, she decided to return to the Savannah where she could roam free and eat leaves from the trees at will. Upon leaving the Ark she had to get back the movement in her limbs which had almost been forgotten. She felt flat, having always been sitting in the same position, her legs folded up under her like a sheet of paper. Thanks to her long neck she was able to gaze out and see the ruins caused by the flood as it swept away trees and animals that unfortunately hadn't been invited to climb aboard the Ark. But how was she going to make it all the way to the Savannah alone, without getting lost and how was she going to face the dangers? So she decided to team up with an elephant, Fantel, and a monkey, too, named Gorì. The elephant could defend her and the monkey could help her with his cunning while she, with her long neck, could spot far-off dangers.
They crossed many cities and, protected by the elephant's great size, safely found their way through streets full of strange vehicles that were going faster than them, even though they were so much smaller. After a long way they knew that they'd arrived somewhere similar to their place of origin because they saw other animals of their own species. But they were very sad and their bodies were withered.
Zaffrà, looking down from the heights of her long neck, saw all of the caged animals and realised that they weren't in the Savannah. Thanks to their experience in the Ark they became flat and motionless and, resembling ornaments in this way, fooled the guards and escaped from the zoo. They resumed their journey trying to avoid crowded streets and knew that they should never set foot in a city ever again.
Anna Gili
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