Hartwig’s design reduced the pieces to the most basic ... Lanier Graham’s 1966 chess set (original image: MoMA) Even more reductive is this 1966 best designed by Lanier Graham.

Take the 18th century Chinese rat set – an extremely rare design with each piece reconstituted as a robed rodent, fashioned from Indian ivory. 'It is certainly one of the most unorthodox of all ...

Perhaps our 1840s designs have been playing us for a pawn terraced house. Check out a new cityscape for the game. The Staunton chess set has been the worldwide standard for the game for more than ...

I wanted to bring the characters of the chess set to life, so I began to scribble designs down and spoke about it to a few of my peers. I felt that South Sea pearls were key to that and that they ...

A whole chess set was translated into wearable accessories in this prototype by French designer Louis Le Joly Senoville, a fan of the game who wanted to make it possible to play anywhere at any time.

GenChess is unique because it allows you to design the chess pieces you play with, using AI. To play GenChess, simply go to the GenChess website in your browser and start designing your chess set.

but it also works to improve your interior design game. A statement chess set which has been artisanally crafted with unique materials is sure to be a coffee table conversation starter.

“And then I started getting a little bit more adventurous." Armed with designs he found in a book about making wooden chess sets, Pentimone began making pieces. Eventually he made a complete se ...