Description
CHAMP DE BATAILLE – BATTLEFIELD
The Champ de Bataille – Battlefield chess game, the fruit of a collaboration between Atelier George and Xavier Montoy, immortalises the plant species of an environment using a typology of powers. On a board made of blown glass and haematite steel, the pawns are made up of plants and grasses covered in copper by electroplating. In August 2023, the designers selected six plant species from the workshop’s immediate environment. They were classified by shape and size, like a large non-naturalistic herbarium. You have to be a player to draw parallels between the plants selected and the classic chess pieces. It’s a game about the cycle of life. A decision is made. Its consequences anticipated.
Nature evolves, the field becomes a battlefield, the harvest arrives.
