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"Form follows function" – the basic theory of Bauhaus® design was aptly illustrated by Josef Hartwig in 1923 with his design of a chess game. So aptly that more than a hundred years later, the game still appears contemporary, or better – timeless. And continues to be manufactured according to the original design.
Hartwig, who had been working at the State Bauhaus in Weimar since 1921, said goodbye to depicted towers, horses, or royal crowns. Instead, he designed the chess pieces according to their values and functions. The rooks, which move at right angles to the edges of the playing field, get the right-angled cube shape. As well as the pawns, who are weaker and therefore smaller. The knight moves in a right-angled hook, accordingly, there is one on the figure. The bishops cross the playing field diagonally and are cut diagonally from a cube. The king may go both straight and diagonally and therefore consists of two cubes offset by 45 degrees. The queen, who moves with the greatest freedom, gets the combination of a cube and a sphere. In this way, the game already carries the instructions in itself.
The combination with the already simple and functional checkerboard pattern results in an absolutely coherent overall picture, whose inner logic is being recognized aesthetically.
The manufacturer of this game is the family-run traditional Swiss company Naef®, which has been implementing Bauhaus® designs since the 1970s and cooperates with the Bauhaus Museum in Berlin. The design language of minimalism and functionality runs through the entire Naef assortment.
Naef® stands for top-class toys made of wood fascinating both children and adults.
The chess game is being produced on behalf of Naef® in a South German craft business, in Germany. The manufacturing is precise and uncompromising craftsmanship in impeccable quality. The chess pieces are made of varnished maple wood, and delivered in a beautiful wooden box. The chessboard is an inlay work made of maple veneer applied to an MDF board.
The listed price is JUST for the Bauhaus® Chess Pieces (the board is not included)
Manufacturer: Naef® Spiele
In collaboration with Bauhaus® Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Designer: Josef Hartwig
Original 1:1 replica of the (1923) Bauhaus® Chess game
Handmade in Germany
Chess pieces: varnished maple wood
CONDITION: Brand New in wooden box
Pawn: 1.9 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm / 0.74 x 0.74 x 0.74 inches
King: 4.6 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm / 1.81 x 1.06 x 1.06 inches
Pieces box: 4.5 x 7.5 x 44cm / 1.77 x 2.95 x 17.32 inches
WARNING: This game is not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts that can be swallowed!
IMPORTANT: Due to the high demand for this Naef product, please allow at least 7 working days for processing time.
ABOUT: Kurt Naef's games are the "Rolls Royce" of wooden games. In a fast-moving and electronically oriented time, they maintain their permanent position in the marketplace with timeless design-loving and high-quality workmanship. The wide range of products primarily consists of puzzles and games of skill, which enable the player to experience and train in spatial imagination, geometric principles, and coordination.
The Swiss cabinetmaker and furniture builder Kurt Naef began to produce his timeless, high-quality wooden games in the late 1950s, developing them on his own and with designers. He reproduced a number of classic games by celebrated designers of the Bauhaus. Naef's games are represented in the collections of important museums, for example in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and in Japan.
In the last 6 decades, Naef Spiele AG widened its range of products through collaboration with well-known designers such as Peer Clahsen, Verner Panton, Xavier de Clippeleir, Jo Niemeyer, and Yasuo Aizawa, among others.
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