A recent resurgence in everything from backgammon to chess is making its mark in home interiors.  Interior designers have noticed an uptick in requests from clients for game rooms in recent years. “We’re definitely seeing more and more people wanting to create spaces where they can do something that allows them to switch off, but not just staring at a screen; spaces to interact with friends and family,” says Portia Fox, cofounder and creative director of her eponymous London-based design studio. Last summer, she completed a basement game room for a family of five in the Notting Hill neighborhood, featuring a games table with drawers for cards and poker chips, and a bespoke unit housing hundreds of board games and leather-stitched storage boxes for Lego. There is also a combined pool and snooker table, a table tennis table, a television area and a bar. The interest in modern game rooms coincides with a revival in board games, which many people rediscovered during pandemic lockdowns. ...