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- **Posted:** 2025-05-08T16:18:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chicagoland Luxury Real Estate (@jamesonsir) — https://gondola.cc/jamesonsir

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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. Board game cafés and clubs are enjoying success as people seek alternative ways to socialize in an increasingly digital world. IMARC Group estimates the value of the global board games market will grow from $18.53B in 2024 to $41.63B by 2033.

Luxury brands are catering to demand with their own sleek versions of traditional pastimes. Hermès (@Hermes) has created mahjong, domino and bridge card sets, while Prada has reimagined classic games such as tic-tac-toe, checkers and backgammon. Sotheby’s (@sothebys) sold a box set of ‘chess and go’ by the Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin for nearly double the high estimate in October 2024. In the same month in London, traditional games specialist Purling staged an exhibition of chess sets designed by artists including Sophie Matisse, great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.

Read the full article “Designing Game Rooms for a New Era” featured on the Extraordinary Living blog by visiting the link in our bio 🔗

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