Thursday, October 30, 2008

Amazing Chess Sets at RS&A

The Art of Chess Jake and Dinos Chapman
Jake and Dinos Chapman

RS&A in London asked famous artists to make their own chess sets. I was absolutely blown away by the results. Please go and visit the website and see these in close up they are amazing, just click on The Art of Chess
the art of chess mauritzio cattelan
Mauritzio Cattelan Good v Evil
the art of chess paul mccarthy
Paul McCarthy Kitchen Set
the art of chess tracey emin
Tracey Emin
the art of chess matthew ronay
Matthew Ronay

3 comments:

bleh said...

I bought my friend a brilliant chess set last year, glass top raised by four tree stumps, a landscape underneath, and the pieces were all fairies. Lovely! Unfortunately I don't have a picture, and can't seem to find it anywhere...

bleh said...

Ooo! Found it!

http://images.netshops.com/mgen/master:CI241.jpg

Anonymous said...

This is such a coincidence, I stumbled on this 'http://flickr.com/photos/phosphorbox/62353714/in/set-1347283/' set the other day and started on a 'chess board' inspiration spree :)