The little prince - LEGO sculpture

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The Little Prince -  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry






  • A king with no subjects, who only issues orders that can be followed, such as commanding the sun to set at sunset.


    • A narcissistic man who only wants the praise which comes from admiration and being the most-admirable person on his otherwise uninhabited planet.


    • A businessman who is blind to the beauty of the stars and instead endlessly counts and catalogues them in order to "own" them all (critiquing materialism)



    • A lamplighter on a planet so small, a full day lasts a minute. He wastes his life blindly following orders to extinguish and relight the lamppost every 30 seconds to correspond with his planet's day and night.




    • An elderly geographer who has never been anywhere, or seen any of the things he records, providing a caricature of specialization in the contemporary world.
















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