"If you love to play, you will know that feeling of being sucked into a game, with no hope of escape until it is over. My design recreates that spiralling sensation of falling into the vortex, where nothing else matters apart from your next move." —Alexandra Llewellyn
The 'Vortex' backgammon set features a hypnotic design that radiates outwards from the center of the board. The concentric design is highly complex, with the circles comprising hundreds of slices of wood, selected according to the direction and quality of the grain. Each piece is cut by the marquetry artist so that the patterning on the woods radiates outwards within the circle, highlighting the juxtaposition between the different woods and grains.
