The Playing Cards strike a fine balance: chic, yet familiar. All of the careful, subtle design choices work in service of the fundamental goal: to relish in an extremely playable deck of cards.

The box is reminiscent of a cassette tape, while echoing the contours of the lid of a grand piano. It features a magnetic closure and a satisfying snap. A chorus of “whoa, that’s cool” will follow wherever it goes. The cards bend, slide, and shuffle exactly as they should, and the handfeel is a thing of great beauty: hard to capture, you’ll know it when you feel it.

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Name: Craighill Playing Cards
Brand: Craighill
SKU: 38704
Price: 21.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Craighill

Craighill are a design and manufacturing brand based in New York, founded by designer, Hunter Craighill, in 2015. With a focus on creating distinct and useful objects for you and your home, they have a wide range of products made from different materials. Their design ethos explores all possibilities and is driven by personal curiosity, industrial experimentation, and basic utility.

They believe that understanding more about how a product is made, and the reasons behind its design decisions, can increase appreciation for it and discourage a culture of consumption and waste. One of the best parts of owning and enjoying physical objects is that they can move us out of our busy, overworked minds and return us to the sensory pleasures of touching, seeing, and doing.

Craighill design their products in their studio in Brooklyn, New York. The studio occupies part of an old textile mill that was built in 1868. The huge building has been split up and is now home to artists, designers, furniture makers, and other craftspeople. The Craighill studio has a small showroom where they present their products, which is open to curious passers-by.

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