Taras Yoom Unveils Limited-Edition "Another Kingdom" Collectible Chess Set

The pastel-toned design looks to expand on the artist’s Yoomoota art universe.

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Taras Yoom has unveiled an all-new collectible chess set, titled “Another Kingdom: Light Stage.” The design, which is crafted in an abundance of light pastel tones, lives in the artist’s Yoomoota art universe on a planet known as Us2BeBetter, where inhabitants are “born to start a new story.”

The set employs a number of intricate manufacturing processes, including fine-detailed 3D printing from photopolymer plastic, molding, sculpting, polymer cast with manual processing of objects and acrylic paint detailing. Notably, each set comes with an embedded NFC chip, or a digital certificate that validates each set’s authenticity and records its ownership.

“The ‘Another Kingdom: Light Stage’ chess set marks the beginning of a new era in the development of the kingdom on one of the Yoomoota planets,” explains Yoom. “It personifies the catchy atmosphere of an endless fair. In the course of the chess game, there are two victories — physical and symbolic. The first is associated with the classical rules of chess. The latter signifies that the heroes will discover a treasure hidden at the center of the board.”

Taras Yoom’s limited-edition “Another Kingdom: Light Stage” collectible chess set will be available in a small run consisting of only 21 units. Take a closer look at the design in the gallery above.

Elsewhere, Bottega Ghianda’s reimagined Gaetano Pesce bookcase arrives in Promemoria’s New York showroom.

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