Mastering the game of chess is infinitely complicated, but getting started just got easier with a chess board that’s perfectly set up and ready to go as soon as you open the box. That’s the genius of ...

Lauren Ro is interested in baby gear (she’s a new mom) and the ins-and-outs of decorating a home. Prior to the Strategist, she was a writer at Curbed, and before that was Wes Anderson’s assistant.

When Tiffany & Co. set out to make a chess set, it did so via an unlikely muse—cardboard. “We were playing around with [it], the way it’s corrugated,” says chief artistic officer Reed Krakoff. Toying ...