Naef Bauhaus Chess Set by Josef Hartwig
Love chess? Love modernist design? You really do need this Naef Bauhaus Chess Set by Josef Hartwig.
Yes, straight out of Bauhaus school, it was designed by Hartwig back in 1923, replacing the classic chess shapes with something cleaner and unmistakably Bauhaus – cubes, cylinders and balls in other words.
The 32-piece set comes in its own Bauhaus-branded box, selling for £350.
Source: http://www.retrotogo.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Very unusual.
Strangely, why not at a cheaper price? What ultimately limited the bauhaus movement was that these simple basic designs ended up pricing themselves out of the market of actual furniture and into purely works of art – lost their artisanal utility.
I thought the Bauhaus was a place to pick up twinks and pin cushions?
Bauhaus was meant to be functional and payable design.
The 1923 Bauhaus set is still made entirely by hand just as it once way by Naef in Switzerland. http://www.naefspiele.ch