There are chess sets, and then there’s this extraordinary board. The Battle of Issus, which was just listed by high-end antique dealer M.S. Rau, was meticulously handcrafted over the course of a ...

Man Ray designed this chess set in 1920 using found objects from his studio. Most of the pieces are geometric models made for still-life drawing (the king is a pyramid, the queen a cone, the rook a ...