Concentration is an essential gift for a good game of chess. Josef Hartwig designed the perfect figures for it at the Bauhaus in 1923. Reduced to the essentials, any distraction is prevented. Hartwig, foreman at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1925, made the basic shapes cube and sphere the exclusive basis for all figures. The chess game was one of the first series products from the Bauhaus. As a re-edition, the figures, as well as the board today, are manufactured by the NAEF company in Switzerland. (Image: Naef)