This beautiful casting of the Vogel Gryff, eponymous mascot for the Vogel Gryff festival, stands near the main entrance of the Waisenareal. It was a gift from the Foundation Basler-Höhenklinik, marking the centenary of the Basler Sanatorium in Davos which was set up by a group of Basel doctors in 1886. The sanatorium was the first hospital for those tuberculosis sufferers unable to pay for their own treatment, which subsequently became a model for such public sanatoria all over Europe. Every childcare day we pass him as we enter and leave, a whimsical reminder of the importance of imagination in everyday life.