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Calvert Chess
The 2018 CALVERT special edition with a printed chessboard and built-in magnets.
550 × 400 × 550 mm
2018
Official product information
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Chess-table edition
CALVERT CHESS is e15's special edition of Ferdinand Kramer's knock-down coffee table concept. It uses a tabletop and two crossing invertible sheets, adding a silkscreen chessboard print and built-in magnets.
Specifications
- Dimensions: L 550 × W/D 550 × H 400 mm
- Construction: plywood with oak veneer
- Surface: silkscreen chessboard print
- Base: two crossing invertible sheets
- Introduction: listed by e15 among its January 2018 new releases
- Variants: two published oak-veneer treatments share the special-edition construction
Story
From picnic proposal to special edition
e15 states that CALVERT CHESS is based on a cardboard picnic version Ferdinand Kramer proposed for Coca-Cola in 1951. The current derivative adds a printed chessboard surface and magnets to the crossing-sheet table structure.
A 2018 release
The product page labels Kramer's underlying proposal with 1951, but e15's official imm cologne article places CALVERT CHESS in its January 2018 new-release list. The library therefore records 2018 as the special edition's own introduction year rather than inheriting the source design's year.
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