“Le goût de la mer” is the taste of the sea. A high table, water in the distance, lemon, a cold dry white and a dozen oysters going round. We keep this one for the evenings when the table is already cleared and nobody is in a hurry to get up.
The scene is almost entirely blue — grey-blue water, navy, pale sky, a checked cloth — so the sorting is slow and the last hour goes on shades alone. It is the one we hand to people who say a puzzle has never held them.
Drawn and published by Jour Férié in Paris, then printed, cut and boxed in Romans-sur-Isère in the Drôme. The whole run stays in France.
We clear the table on a slow evening and leave it out for a few days. Edges first, then colour by colour, with the box lid used as the sorting tray.