Would you do board game decor?

Knowing my ongoing obsession with Scrabble (and no, I do not mean Scrabulous, which is completely different and inferior!), a sweet friend sent me the link to Los Angeles designer/artist Clare Graham's amazing Scrabble tile- and board-based constructions. (Graham also dabbles in collecting and stacking up and gluing together buttons, bottle caps, yardsticks, and paint-by-numbers art, which I happen to love and a lot of you happen to hate.) If you have a few minutes you were planning on procrastinating through anyway, spend them clicking through Graham's site—it's like a museum of childhood detritus-turned-sculpture, and some of the pieces will really surprise you if you let them. There's even stuff that's not entirely kitschy, like the stacked-Scrabble-boards side table (below), which I would strongly consider putting in my house (and also think I might be able to replicate with a table base from Ikea and a few unwanted game boards from yard sales and eBay; I'd probably add a Plexiglas top so that I could use it both for Scrabbling and for setting drinks on).

What about you? Would you put board-game-inspired furniture or tchotchkes (or art) in your home?



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