3D printed chess set inspired by sand dunes features beautiful chess pieces that look ancient and futuristic at the same time.

Dune Chess Set designed by Rory Noble-Turner looks like it was carved by wind, not hands or a 3D printer.

Each piece rises from the board like a miniature dune, layered and rippled, as if time itself paused mid-erosion.

It looks less like a game and more like a landscape you can rearrange.

The surface texture is what immediately pulls you in. Fine striations run along every piece, echoing sediment layers in sand dunes.

Kings and queens feel like taller formations shaped by harsher winds, while pawns resemble younger dunes, smaller but still full of character.

Sandy tone and granular finish make Dune Chess Set feel excavated rather than produced, as if it belongs in a desert museum instead of a living room.

Each Dune Chess piece could be scaled up into a tower or monument, inspired by ruins, watchtowers, or ancient structures half-buried by sand.

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