Les Guerre Des Verre chess pieces & table looking for a suitable home?

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Xavier White
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Les Guerre Des Verre chess pieces & table looking for a suitable home?

Post by Xavier White » Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:23 pm

Hello ECF,
I'm looking for a suitable home to display my Les Guerre Des Verre chess set, pix. Its big 90 x 90 x 60cm approx but
quite fascinating. It has done a number of exhibitions around London but now is boxed up with me in Blackheath.
If anyone like the look of the piece has any idea's where might be a home suitable for it's display for a period or permanently
please send me a short intro message and we can take it from there.
Thanks for your time.
Xavier
p.s below is a short background to the work & a exhibition C.V
After approaching the English Chess Federation about my Bob Wade memorial portrait Robert Walks Through Water (3,4), now hanging close to Bob's book collection at DMU's Chess Library, Leicester. A man contacted me saying the ECF had given him my name & number re some chess art for an exhibition he was organising at Nottingham Museum I think it was. I explained my idea for a chess table with glass pieces built up of up-cycled domestic 3-D glass table items 1950’s desert dishes, candles holders & sticks, salt & pepper seller etc from Deptford Market.

Checkpoint Nottingham 2010 ish
ORTUS Maudsley Hospital 2014
Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Hospital 2015
London South Bank University 2016-20
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Re: Les Guerre Des Verre chess pieces & table looking for a suitable home?

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:41 pm

I am trying to imagine playing bullet chess with this chess set... :D

Are the pieces as delicate and breakable as they look? (They look fabulous, in case that wasn't clear. though I am a bit in two minds about the plumes of something on the knights, presumably intended to be horses' manes?) The bishops don't look identical either, which could be confusing?

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Re: Les Guerre Des Verre chess pieces & table looking for a suitable home?

Post by Xavier White » Tue Sep 13, 2022 5:47 pm

Thanks, the glass pieces have held together really well ) pleasantly surprised as they look so delicate.

Well spotted re Bishop's odd one out, needs must, but it's got the general shape, and a foot to pick it up by )

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Post by John Upham » Tue Sep 13, 2022 6:13 pm

Have you attempted to play shot glass chess with this set?

A familiar and entertaining pursuit for student chess clubs.
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Re: Les Guerre Des Verre chess pieces & table looking for a suitable home?

Post by David Gilbert » Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:49 pm

Have you tried the Art Gallery in the Village? They could be interested, especially if you want to sell.

I assume you’re not a chess player yourself? But get in touch if you’re looking to play.

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Re: Les Guerre Des Verre chess pieces & table looking for a suitable home?

Post by David Gilbert » Tue Sep 13, 2022 9:18 pm

... and if you're going to put it on display it's best to have the board the right way around!

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