Thirty-two pieces. One board.
A Game in Glass
A game made tangible.
Chess is the oldest conversation between two minds. This set turns that conversation into hand-blown Murano glass thirty-two pieces, two colours, a single mirror board.
It was conceived not as an ornament but as a playable sculpture: meant to be touched, moved, and lived with.
Thirty-two pieces. One pair of hands.
Every one of the thirty-two pieces was shaped at the torch in the Murano tradition of lampworking, where solid glass rods are melted and sculpted directly in the flame. Not the furnace, and not a team: one artisan, working over two months. The two armies were born, one in white glass, the other in black glass, so the contrast between them arises in the glass itself.
Sixty-four squares engraved into a single 3mm sheet of mirror, set in a frame galvanised gold steel
Board geometry and the sixty-four-square engraving drawn to scale in our studio, the steel frame engineered around a single 3 mm mirror sheet.
All thirty-two pieces shaped by hand at the torch by a single artisan. Solid glass rods melted and sculpted one figure at a time. One army in white glass, one in black, both detailed in gold. No furnace, no moulds, no two pieces alike.
The chessboard: a single 3 mm sheet of mirror engraved with sixty-four squares, set into a galvanised-steel frame. Cleaned, finished, and matched to its thirty-two pieces.
Final photographs and a dimensional report sent to the client before shipment. The piece ships with a full certificate of authenticity, traceable to every maker and every technique used in its production.
Every piece on this chessboard reflects the work of one pair of hands, shaped over six months of drawings, revisions, and fire. That is what Murano authenticity means to us, not just a certificate, but a responsibility.
Every piece begins with a
conversation.
We work with private clients, architects, and interior designers to realise Murano glass pieces of any scale. Commissions open throughout the year.
