Il piccolo giardino

Chessboard designed by AMDL circle and Michele De Lucchi for Bottega Treccani

It was 1936 when Luigia Maria Tosi, a fine art historian specialized in art objects, writing the entry Chess Game for the Italian Encyclopedia of Sciences, Letters and Arts, lingered in the passionate description of rare and precious chessboards, real and its own treasures of art and history: from the one coming from the abbey of Saint-Dénis, which was said to have belonged to Charlemagne, to that of Margaret of Austria «all silver with gold edges»; and yet, in the last lines of the text, the scholar paused to note - perhaps with a note of disenchantment - that, "since the game of chess became no longer the privileged pastime of the courts and nobles, but the one familiar to every category of people, and modern industry multiplied the examples, very rarely the pieces and the chessboard had art value ». Today Bottega Treccani, which over time has given great visibility to the highest expressions of design and craftsmanship in our country, chooses to offer the public a chessboard: an object for recreational use which, through the project created by the creative studio AMDL CIRCLE founded by Michele De Lucchi, finally regains all the aesthetic value that in past ages has accompanied the profound symbolic value that has always been attributed, by intellectuals and writers, to one of the oldest and most fascinating games in human history.