Mid Century Ironwood Chess and Domino Set, Don Shoemaker Style

Fantastic hand made Don S. Shoemaker designed tic-tac-toe game for Senal and dates from the 1960's. Made of beautiful rosewood. Has the original artists tag on the bottom. The game i...

Mid Century Chess Set in Malachite and Brass 1960s A stunning mid century chess set in malachite and inlaid brass. Wonderful contrast between the ...

Circa 1970. We offer this headboard designed by Don Shoemaker. Made in cocobolo wood.

Antique Staunton Style Chess Set With Board. A Staunton style chess set with wooden chess pieces with wide turned bases for added stability. The chess set comprises of thirty-two pie...

Large Antique Staunton Style Chess Figures. A large Staunton style chess set with Ebonised and Boxwood weighted chess pieces. The pieces with wide bases for added stability, underside of each chess piece being covered with felt allowing the pieces to slide more easily across the chess board. The chess set comprises of thirty-two pieces, four Knights featuring the head and neck of a horse. Two kings, being the tallest pieces at 11½ cm high, both with a crown topped with a cross whilst the two Queens feature a coronet topped with a tiny ball (10 cm high). The four Rooks are towers (castles) with a crenelation top and the four Bishops with mitres. The sixteen Pawns are the smallest pieces at 5½ cm high and are topped by a plain ball. All the pieces with a collar except the rooks and knights, with a single white Rook with a red crown painted onto the top. The antique mahogany box...

Born in Nebraska, Don S. Shoemaker studied painting at The Fine Arts Institution of Chicago. In the late 1940s, he moved to Mexico with his family and settled in Santa Maria de Guido...

American Mid-Century mahogany and maple inlaid chess board.

Mid-Century modern chess set with brass and gunmetal pieces on a mirrored glass board. The glass playing board is inset in a raised brass frame.

Circa 1970. We offer this Hand carved bookends made in Cocobolo by Mexican Modernist Don Shoemaker. Include original labels from his workshop in Señal Mexico.

A refined chess set with pieces that were individually handcrafted and fired in a raku kiln. Raku refers to a type of low-firing process that was inspired by traditional Japanese ra...