Luxury Brown Epoxy Chess Set with Figural Pieces

Luxury Brown Epoxy Chess Set with Figural Pieces

You will not mistake this for an ordinary folding board. The dark squares of this wooden chess set are not wood at all — they are brown epoxy, poured and polished until the marbling shows, amber where the light falls across them and almost black where it does not. Around the field runs a border of carved arches, cut by hand into pale beech, and the whole board folds shut on a bronze clasp into something you can carry in one hand.

Then you open the bag and the pieces come out. Thirty-two of them, every one carved as a figure rather than turned on a lathe — robes, faces, small details you only notice once you have picked one up and turned it over. That is what stops this being a spare set. It is a travel chess set at 11.8" / 30 cm that looks like it belongs on a desk permanently, and that is usually where it ends up.

What's Included

• Folding chess board with brown epoxy squares and a bronze clasp
• 32 figural carved wooden chess pieces
• Carrying bag

Specifications

• Open board: 11.8 x 11.8" / 30 x 30 cm
• Folded: 11.8 x 5.9" / 30 x 15 cm
• Weight: 3 kg / 6.6 lb
• Material: beech wood, epoxy resin and bronze
• Entirely handmade

Why You'll Love It

• Marbled epoxy squares — the pattern in the resin is different on every board
• A hand-carved arch border framing the playing field
• Figural pieces with real carved detail, not plain turned shapes
• A carved chess set small enough to travel, finished well enough to leave out

A Gift Worth Giving

Give someone a luxury chess set this size and you have given them something they will actually use — on a kitchen table, in a hotel room, on a long train journey. The marbled resin and the carved arches do the rest.