"People no longer want to buy the individual pieces and put them together."

Then, for the rest of the set, he put the individual pieces back together again.

Individual pieces would take up to two months to complete.

To understand this, we need to back up and look at an individual piece of ice.

"I try to let the individual piece lead me into its own world," he said.

One can pull out individual short pieces without a big search.

"Did I ever determine whether that bowl was an individual piece or part of a service?"

The museum opened in 1979 and houses over 6,000 individual pieces.

"But they believe the value of the whole pie is so much greater than the individual pieces."

There are thousands of individual pieces to choose from as well.