This is a simple and yet interesting inexpensive Staunton design featuring a 3" King. Unusually, the base dimensions of all the pieces are of the same size at 1" with green felt pads.

Our Modern Art Chess Set taken from the Avant-garde era is made from Premium Grade Golden Rosewood and Boxwood. It is crafted beautifully, with its stunning and unique design. This artistic and distinguished chess set will take pride of place as a centre piece in your home or office.

This Chess set has a 108mm (4.25") tall king, all Chess pieces are Double Weighted for extra stability, have tapered bases with luxurious billiard cloth base pads. They are hand polished which results in a beautiful lustre finish.

This set of modern chessmen may be purchased with the optional solid wood chessboard shown and will then also qualify for free shipping..

A sheeshamwood and boxwood set of chessmen with elegantly styled 4" King with 1 1/4" base diameter. This set of chessmen is priced as pieces only but may be purchased with an with optional solid golden rosewood chessboard shown below.

A very interesting cannon-style hand-carved wooden chessmen set in sheeshamwood. The King is 3.75" tall and these are all completely hand carved by our craftsmen in India. The price shown is for the pieces but if you need a chessboard too, take a look at our marching solid wood chessboards shown below.

This is a very decorative set carved by hand in Bud rosewood and boxwood. The key aspect of this design is the filigree carving which for the money is really good value. This tower style set has a 5" King with a 1.5" base.

An interesting contemporary design in boxwood and ebonized boxwood featuring a 3 3/4" King with felt green pads and base diameter of 1 7/16".

An interesting contemporary design in boxwood and ebonized boxwood featuring a 4" King with felt green pads and base diameter of 1 7/16".

We are pleased to introduce The Staunton Moderne, designed by Fred Lackaff. The set is entirely hand made in India and takes some influences from the original Staunton design and places this into a 21^st Century setting with a very enhanced modern feel. While being in some sense geometrically similar to the Bauhaus design these pieces have Staunton artistic elements showing defining the rook, knight and bishop as a castle, horse and knave shaping. These pieces certainly lend themselves to any contemporary home or office but also can bring a bright artistic twist to any modern home. Each piece is made of traditional boxwood (white) or sheesham (brown) and are finished in a natural buff. The King’s height is 3.25” with a base width being square is  1 ¼” x 1 ¼” with green felt pad. The pawn is 1 ¾” tall with the same base dimension.

 

This set may be purchased independently of the chessboard shown and wooden storage box which has a sliding lid. If you would like these items as well as the chess pieces then please select from the drop down menu below.

Do you notice so many artistically carved sets tend to be on the 4"+ side?  These chessmen are suitable for a board with 1 3/4" squares and so will not take up room in that apartment or office. This Regal design has a very appealing style. These are beautifully hand carved and turned solid wooden pieces, double weighted and felted. The main feature to this amazingly detailed set are the knights. The knights are nicely carved making this a fascinating set and great value given the wood and carving/turning quality.
 

Features a 3 Inch King with 1.5" base diameter on green felted pads. Made of boxwood and padauk. 

This is a wooden reproduction of the Mozarab chess set, also known as the pieces of Saint Genadio, may be as old as the beginning of the 10th century. Only 4 pieces of that set were found and made of ivory and preserved in the Mozarabic monastery in Leon, Spain.