Prise de tête

About

Prise de Tête is a one-person French workshop run by Emilio Petersen that designs and fabricates its own wooden puzzles and games. The site describes the company as an 'artisan créateur d'énigmes en bois' whose puzzles, brain-teasers and games are mostly made of wood, often inspired by historic or contemporary creators and mathematicians, and stresses that production is deliberately selective rather than mass-market. The workshop sits in a converted oyster-farmer's hut on Île d'Oléron, where visitors can drop by and try some of the games, and the company emphasises environmentally respectful w…