I was supposed to be looking for something else, but these chessmen caught my eye, along with dozens of other insanely beautiful sets featured in the lengthy article.
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raven
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Lovely! The Maryhill museum (sited high on a cliff overlooking the Columbia River Gorge) has a fine chess set collection. My favorite, among all the gold and silver and carved stone,, is a hand carved wood set from the Black Forest, comprised of two different villages- each piece with various tradesmen, town officials, etc with different faces and expressions. The set is housed in an inlaid wood book made to look like a book.
The Lewis chessmen would be the premier set though!
Icebreaker- "money and availability no object, what work of art or craft you choose to place in your home?" Head of Nefertiti? Birth of Venus?
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Lovely!
The Maryhill museum (sited high on a cliff overlooking the Columbia River Gorge) has a fine chess set collection. My favorite, among all the gold and silver and carved stone,, is a hand carved wood set from the Black Forest, comprised of two different villages- each piece with various tradesmen, town officials, etc with different faces and expressions. The set is housed in an inlaid wood book made to look like a book.
The Lewis chessmen would be the premier set though!
Icebreaker- "money and availability no object, what work of art or craft you choose to place in your home?" Head of Nefertiti? Birth of Venus?
I love chess. I have a replica Lewis set that I prefer, but any set is better than none.
raven: You'd have to add "available space" to the caveat list. Bookcases take most of the "prime artwork display" space.
That thing is a formation and grid creator, simulator, teacher. Finally figured it out. It is not a war game, as some may have believed.
Formations are used to align scalar or other earth based energies to create things like the Dead Sea partition.
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