Luxury Chess and Backgammon Table with Eagle Heads

Luxury Chess and Backgammon Table with Eagle Heads

Eagle heads are carved at the top of each leg, wings running down in feathers to the foot, and bronze eagles sit on the corners and the drawer front. Closed, it is a chess table with an inlaid board and a lattice-carved frame. Lift the hinged top and the same piece is a full backgammon table, checkers and dice cup stowed inside. You are not choosing between two games here, you are choosing one table.

There is a reason carvers keep coming back to the eagle: it is the one bird that reads as authority from across a room, and it gives a leg a top worth looking at instead of a knob. This is a handmade wooden chess table nobody is going to want to cover with a cloth. The drawer at the front holds the spare pieces, and the legs unbolt, so the whole thing packs into its own crate.

What's Included

• Folding chess and backgammon table on carved eagle legs
• 32 chess pieces in beech and walnut wood
• 32 backgammon checkers in beech and walnut wood
• Dice cup and dice
• Front storage drawer
• Carrying bag

Specifications

• Closed: 11.8 x 23.6" / 30 x 60 cm
• Open playing field: 23.6 x 23.6" / 60 x 60 cm
• Height: 27.6" / 70 cm
• Weight: 13 kg / 28.7 lb
• Table material: solid beech wood
• Chess pieces and checkers: beech and walnut wood
• Removable legs, packs into its own crate
• Entirely handmade

Why You'll Love It

• One table, two games: a chess board on top, a full backgammon field inside
• Eagle heads carved at the top of each leg, feathered wings down to the foot
• Bronze eagles on the corners and the drawer front
• A front drawer for the spare pieces
• Compact 11.8 x 23.6" / 30 x 60 cm footprint for a living room or study

Why the Eagle

Every workshop that carves furniture gets to an eagle eventually, because it is the shape that tests a carver honestly — get the beak wrong and the whole head turns into a parrot. The heads on these legs are cut one at a time, which is why yours will not match a photograph exactly, and why it rewards a close look.

A Gift Worth Giving

For the person who plays both games, or the one who owns a beautiful chess set and nowhere proper to put it. It arrives with its own carrying bag, and no two tables leave the workshop identical.